The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-07-30
THE BABY.
How to Manage 1t in hot yFeather-TimeIy
Sanitary Advice.


How to Manage 1t in Hot EFeather-Timely
Sanitary Advice.
The following directions for the
management of infants in hot weather,
If faithfully followed, might save the
lives of many, and add greatly to the
health and comfort of all so treated:
Bathe the child 0nee q day in tepid
water. If it is feeble, sponge it all
over twice day with tepid water, or
with tepid water and vinegar. The
health of the child depends much up
on its cleanliness.
Avoid all tight bandaging. Make
the clothing light and cool, and SO
loose that the child may have free
play for its limbs. AT night undress
it, sponge it, and put on slip. In the
morning remove the slip, bathe the
child, and dress it in clean clothes. If
this cannot be afforded, thoroughly
air the day clothing by hanging it up
during the night.
The child should sleep by itself in
a cot or cradle. 1t should be put to
bed at regular hours, and be early
taught to 90 to sleep without being
nursed in the arms. Without the ad-
vice of physician never give it any
ing syfups or sleeping drops. Thou
sands of children die every year from
the use of the poisons. If the child
frets and does not sleep, it is either
hungry or else i'll. Ifill it needs a
physician. Meyer quiet by candy or
cakes they are the common causes
of diarrhRa and other troubles,
Give the child plenty Of fresh air.
In the cool of the morning and eVen-
ing, send it out to the shady sides of
broad streets, to the public squares or
TO the woods. Make frequent excur-
sions in the country. Whenever it
seems to suffer from the heat, let it
drink freely of ice water. Keep it
out of the room in which washing or
cooking is going on. It is excessive
heat that destroys the lives of young
infants.
Keep your house sweet and clean.
cool and well aired. In very hot
weather let the windows be open day
and night. Do your cooking in the
yard, in 8 shed, in the garret, or in an
upper room. Let no slops collect, and
use Whitewash about the walls plenti-
fully. Correct all foul smells by pour
ing carboIic acid or quicklime into
sinks or other foul places.
on its natural food, none other should |
be biyen it while the hot weather lasts.
Where the supply is insufficient. goat |
or cows milk should be given in addi- |
tion. Each bottleful of milk should |
be sweetened by q small lump of loaf
sugar. If the milk be pure it may |
have one-fourth hot water added TO /
it, but If il is not known to be pure no |
water need be added. Be sure that |
the milk is unskimmed, and boil it as
soon as it comes, putting the vessels |
holding il at once away in the coolest
place in the house, Use ice upon the /
milk If it can be afforded.
II the milk should disagree, a table,
spoonful of lime water may be added |
to each bottleful. When pure milk /
cannot be got, try the condensed milk,
which often answers admirably. 1t is /
sold by all the leading druggists and |
grocers, and may be prepared by add
ing to six tablespo0nfuls OF boiling
water, without sugar, one tablespoon
ful or more of milk. according to the /
age of the child. Should this disa-
gree, a teaspoenful of arrow-root, or
sago, or of cornstarch to the pint of /
milk may be cautiously tried, If milk
in any shape cannot be digested, try,
for a few days, pure cream diluted
with three-fourths or four-fifths of
water, returning to the milk as soon
as possible.
The nursing bottle must be Kept
perfectly clean; otherwise the milk
will tura sour, and the child be made
ill. After each meal it should be
emptied, rinsed out, taken apart, and
the tube, cork, mouthpiece and bottle
placed in clean water, or in water to
which little soda has been added. 1t
is q good plan to have two nursing
bottles, and to use them by turns.
just before or during the hot wealth
er, or, as rule, until after the second
summer, the natural diet of the child
should not be echanged.-When every
thing else fails it will often save the
child's life. When the child is over
six months old the mother may save
her strength by giving it one or two
meals day of stale bread and milk,
which should be pressed through a
sieve and put into a nursing bottle.
When from eight months to year old
it may have also one meal a day of
the yolk of a fresh rare boiled egg, or
one Of beef or mutton broth, into
which stale bread has been crumbled.
When older than this it can have a
little meat fnelely minced, but even
then milk should be its principal food
and not such food as grown up people
eat.