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Illnesses of a belly-button

Illnesses of a belly-button concern: a bleeding from a belly-button, «wild meat», an umbilical hernia.

If the bleeding from a cord seemed at the first o'clock after sorts, it such bleeding soon stops. Worse if blood is shown for 3-5th day after a birth - during time falling-away cords (umbilical отреза specifies that it has been badly dressed.). Then it is necessary a belly-button присыпать very fine жжеными alum or some times to wash a weak solution of iodine (1-2 drops on 1 glass of boiled water). It is possible to adhere a rag moistened with lead water.

After falling-away umbilical cut in a belly-button sometimes there is a slice of red meat, like a berry sitting on a thin leg. It also is «wild meat». It is easy for removing: it is necessary to dress hardly a leg the disinfected thread, but not so thin, and it in 2-3 days will disappear. It is possible to get rid of «wild meat» differently: every day присыпать жжеными alum, paternal it will gradually disappear.

The umbilical hernia at thoracal children happens from badly dressed cord, from strong gases and constant cry. It is necessary leaving through navel intestine cautiously to set back and from above to put a compressing bandage: to make of wax a flat cake, to put on a belly-button and to bandage. It is possible even to take a coin approaching on size, to wash up it, to turn in a soft rag and to bandage. So to do all time while the hole will not grow. At change of bandage it is necessary to wash out a belly-button Acidum boricum or a weak solution of iodine (3 drops on 1 glass of water). To bathe the child it is possible with бинтиком, then to put on the dry. If the hernia longly does not pass - till 4 and more months, - it is necessary to show the child to the doctor.

The omphalitis is a purulent process in the heart of a soaked belly-button and tissues surrounding it. Disease meets at newborns very often (at every tenth child) and is shown by reddening and a cutaneous dropsy in the field of a belly-button, occurrence in the field of umbilical wound sanies.

Treatment of an omphalitis at newborns is spent as follows:

1. At first delete pus by means of instillation in an umbilical cavity of th solution of peroxide of hydrogen of 3 % and drainages by its sterile cotton plug.

2. After a lavage wound and its purifications from pus grease a skin outside of 5 % with th solution of iodine. Then grease a skin in umbilical ранки with an iodine solution. Outside and inside greasing do by separate gauze napkins.

3. After consultation of the attending physician a bottom umbilical wound cauterise an argentum nitricum.

To bathe the child it is possible only carefully having stuck umbilical wound, in order to avoid water hit.

The cord and umbilical wound are of great importance in a life of the newborn. At a dressing and a cord section rather serious consequences can cause non-observance of rules of an asepsis. After falling-away cords cicatrisation process can be tightened or interrupt because of a local infection. Pus starts to separate, and fleshy granulations which should be cleared and to cauterize are formed. Sometimes there are not only granulations, but also the present adenomas of a belly-button demanding a surgical intervention. It is possible to tell, that at all children who soon after a birth suffer an icterus, decrease in weight and are in bad condition, - at all these children takes place more or less serious infection of a belly-button. To avoid all these collateral diseases, it is necessary to observe strictly all measures of an asepsis at dressings and a cord section.