New born baby when in womb gets all energy & oxygen by umbilical cord attached to mother’s uterus. After birth after few days it falls off. You need to take care of it & prevent infection. Homeopathy can help you in many ways. Couple of days after birth, it dries out and falls out. It takes around 5 to 15 days. While it falls out, may be little bleeding happens at the stump site, this is normal and it should stop quickly. Do follow advice of your paediatrician about washing baby & cord stump infection prevention. If your doctor says avoid contact with water, then you need to sponge your baby till cord stump fall out naturally. Let cord sit out of nappy to prevent pee & poop infection.
Do’s:- Maintain good hygiene of baby & its surroundings Have patience & give proper timing to heal that site. Follow your pediatrician’s advice about giving bath to baby. Change nappy as soon as baby pees & poops.
Don’t:- Don’t use any antiseptic or alcohol based disinfectant. Don’t use any antibiotic ointments or gels without asking your doctor. Don’t pull off stumps even though you see it as dried totally. Let it come out naturally otherwise chances of not healing & bleeding increases. Do not put any oil drops or any herbs inside umbilicus to enhance healing. Don’t cover cord inside diaper, let it heal in fresh air. Don’t apply bandages or band-aids on stump. It will stop airflow around the stump.
Signs you need to see doctor and role of homeopathy in it:- After the cord falls off, belly button may bleed or ooze a little, but it should heal completely in few days. If there is continuous stickiness or discharge, it may be infected, consult doctor & get it s examination done. In homeopathy, there are many natural medicines that can help prevent infections & courage fast healing with homeopathy. Sometimes the belly buttons does not heal completely & moist red tissue forms over the stump site, often with a bump present its “Granuloma”. Consult your doctor for this. Homeopathy will help your baby heal this “Granuloma” naturally. If baby has either redness, swelling, foul smell around umbilicus or fever, appetite decreased, crying constantly then immediately consult doctor. Umbilical hernia is also one of the condition common in babies. Especially low birth weight & premature babies are more susceptible. Many times it goes back naturally between 2 to 5 years of age & do not cause any danger, but consult your doctor once for this. Homeopathy have wonderful medicines to help heal umbilical hernia & it is safe for infants too. Give homeopathy your patience & faiths, it will give you back awesome results.
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