This is how the scientific director of La Roche-Posav laboratories, Leonor Prieto, defined how to ensure that children were not so susceptible to skin conditions. Excessive hygiene and poor contact that babies have with germs are risk factors for them to suffer from atopic disease, eczema, hives, rhinitis, asthma, conjunctivitis, dermatitis, etc., a condition that suffers from 10% of the population in which pollution and food additives also act.
These data were presented at the XX National Congress of the Spanish Society of Outpatient Pediatrics and Primary Care held in Granada until next Sunday and where some 1,200 pediatricians have gathered.
Daily bathing is necessary for babies, but experts recommend using water, a mild soap that does not alter the mucous membranes of your skin and does not rub vigorously, and in case of suffering from atopic disease, specific products should be used to clean and hydrate the skin. skin. In developed countries there is a higher rate of children suffering from atopic disease due to environmental factors, excessive hygiene and parents' concern to keep them without contact with germs. Although this disorder may disappear with the growth of the child, it is common for them to manifest themselves with respiratory problems such as asthma.
The doctors took the opportunity to remember that breastfeeding at least up to six months of age, helped prevent atopic dermatitis, in addition to advising pregnant women and those who are breastfeeding, not to consume products that can cause allergy, such as eggs, peanuts or cow's milk.
So you already know that children are clean, but not sterile.
