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Cleanliness is important to the infant’s health. In the early stages the infant should be washed daily with warm water; and a bath every night, for the purpose of thoroughly cleaning the body, is highly necessary. By degrees, however, the water with which it is sponged in the morning should be made tepid, the evening bath being continued warm enough to be grateful to the feelings.

 

If washed with cold water, however, it must be kept in but a minute; for if it exposed to cold water more than a minute it may effect its body temperature, and prevents that healthy glow on the surface which usually follows the momentary and brief action of cold, and upon which its usefulness depends. With some children, indeed, the effects sometime takes longer, therefore, must be carefully watched.

 

The surface of the skin should always be carefully and thoroughly wipped dry with flannel, indeed, the skin also takes advantages from massaging action of the mother. After a child experience a day full of activities which warm him/her body, should be washed with warm water, or when necessary, sponged with salt water from head to toe.. When the weather be very cold, the water can be made slightly tepid, but if his constitution will bear it, the water should be cold throughout the year. We must also make bathing time a fun and enjoyable experience for children. If a child is of a sensitive constitution, the cold bath during the summer is one of the best tonics that can be employed; and if living on the coast, sea-bathing will be a good alternative which offer the same benefit. The opinion that warm baths generally relax and weaken is misleading; for in this case, you cannot put them in general; in fact, the tepid bath is to this child what the cold bath is to the more robust.

 

As a conclusion: if the bath for some reason cannot from circumstances be obtained, then cold saltwater sponging must be used daily, and all the year round, so long as the proper reaction or glow follows its use; but when this is not the case, and this will generally occur, if the child is delicate and the weather cold, tepid vinegar and water, or tepid salt water, must be substituted.

 

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