Thread by @aproko_doctor

I hope you know that you don't add antiseptics to your baby's bath water. You'll harm your baby's skin in the long run.

I spent all evening yesterday educating a grandmother about it, she said all this new generation doctors sef

Here's the thing. Your skin has normal bacteria

Called the “normal flora” which prevent other bacteria from colonising your skin. It's like your skin already has tenants.

When you use antiseptic liquids, you kill and wipe away these bacteria, exposing your baby's skin to other harmful bacteria that can cause skin infectionsf

For example boils, is a kind of skin infection. Also your skin needs to develop some sort of immunity by exposure to this normal flora.

Taking them out is counterproductive.

"But that's how we were trained and we didn't die" Do you still watch black and white TV?

You improve

Boil your baby's bath water if you're worried of germs.

Because they added it to your antenatal items is not proof that you need it for your baby, they are used to clean your wounds and clean the surfaces of where you had your baby. Not to clean your baby.

If you want to use antiseptics, use it for disincting wounds, use it wash your toilet, and wash floors if your baby is crawling.

Do not even use it for an adult. Except of course a dermatologist( a skin doctor) prescribes it. I didn't say a beauty expert.

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