Wash hands become part of the ritual cleanliness that is able to stay away from the body from germs and disease. Unfortunately, many mothers do not get used when washing hands with her baby. Based on the survey conducted by the researchers discovered the fact, that 80 percent of mothers around the world has never wash their hands before holding her baby is still in its infancy. Of course very unfortunate given the mother is the person most in contact with children. Newborns generally do not have a good immune the system. Parents or relatives who visit should wash their hands first before holding the baby.
Hand washing is the best way to prevent the spread of disease. This also applies to protect newborns, because newborns belong to the groups most at risk for infection. Because of the dirty hands of mothers has tainted the possibility of 10 species of fecal-oral diseases (through hand to mouth), one diarrhea,
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that the risk of death among infants born in rural Nepal decreased by 44 percent after a midwife or a person who helped give birth to wash his hands before the delivery process, as well as mothers who wash their hands before holding baby. Washing hands is also important to do before parents give the baby to eat, after changing diapers and after using the bathroom. This also applies to all other family members including children who are older or grandparents, quoted from Babycenter.
Parents should act decisively against relatives or guests who visit to ask him to wash your hands first before holding the baby. However this is not easy, some guests sometimes think do not need to do it because he was not sick. And germs can still spread though the person does not show signs of illness.
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Infants younger than six months require a longer time to form a strong immune system, so that could make him avoid the disease. Because it never hurts to ask the people who show symptoms of runny nose, coughing, sneezing or fever to not be too close to the baby and wash their hands more often. Also try to avoid the crowd or the crowd if you want to bring the child for a walk, because it would increase the risk of infant infection.








