No kid likes taking medicine. Tablets, especially if they are bitter, instantly cause disgust in children. When a child is prescribed several types of drugs at the same time, then parents have a slight shock. Saves only the fact that today a large number of drugs are issued in the form of suppositories (candles).
Preparation
- Before you put a candle to the baby, try to win his confidence. Play with the baby, establish contact. It is best that during the given manipulation of the mother, someone helps (dad, grandmother, grandfather).
- Before putting the glycerin candle in the infant, it is necessary that it warms up to room temperature. To make this happen faster, you can put it in warm water or warm it up a little in your hands, without removing it from the package.
- After the suppository warms up, just before the manipulation, the mother should wash her hands thoroughly and only then remove it from the package.
How to put a candle?
In order to correctly place a candle on the baby from constipation or other problem, lay it on the back, and taking both legs, raise them up, as if pressing to the tummy. With your right hand, quickly, confidently move the candle with a pointed end into the rectum.
Older children are usually laid on their side, legs bend at the knees and pressed against the stomach.
After carrying out such manipulation, it is necessary that the child at least 5 minutes lie down. Otherwise, the candle can come out back because of the reflex reduction of the sphincter of the rectum. Ideally, if the child lies for 30 minutes after the manipulation. In practice, this is almost impossible to achieve.
Thus, putting candles on babies is not so difficult. The main thing is to follow the sequence, and perform the actions in the order described above.