Blooming in newborns is a fairly frequent phenomenon. Young mothers, seeing rashes on the baby's skin, are often frightened and begin to take measures that can only worsen the condition of the baby's skin. Mom needs to know about this phenomenon and be able to distinguish it from other skin rashes of the newborn.
What is Newborn Bloom
Otherwise, this phenomenon is also called acne. A bloom is a pimple or acne rash on an infant's skin. Most often, acne spreads to the face, neck and head. Flowering usually does not affect other parts of the newborn's body. In appearance, the rash is very similar to teenage acne. This is not surprising, because the nature of their occurrence is very similar. Doctors are inclined to believe that the reason for flowering in newborns is associated with the hormonal background of the child. This is possible when maternal hormones are slowly excreted from the infant's body. Accordingly, the onset of acne in a newborn is from the first days of life. The second reason for the appearance of such a rash in an infant is a violation of the sebaceous glands. The baby's skin has been in the aquatic environment for a long time, immediately after birth it needs to adapt to dry air. It takes time for the sebaceous glands to learn to work properly.
What to do if the baby "bloomed"
First of all, it is necessary to inform the pediatrician about the rash, who must visit every newborn after discharge from the hospital. Do not make any diagnoses yourself. The doctor must confirm that the rash is actually acne and not an allergy or fungal infection. In case of doubt, he can order tests. The flowering itself does not need any additional treatment. In no case should pimples be smeared with fatty creams or squeezed out, this will only worsen the work of the baby's sebaceous glands. It's better to just calm down and wait for the acne to clear up on its own.
Blooming newborn and other rashes
The most common rashes on the baby's skin, in addition to acne, prickly heat and allergies. The first one often occurs in places of friction: folds on the neck and limbs, groin area. The prickly heat looks like a very fine red rash. It has one thing in common with the acne of newborns: in order to defeat them, it is necessary to keep the baby's skin clean and dry. Both of these types of rashes can be smeared with zinc ointment or an infusion of a series. But in the case of flowering, the skin can easily dry out.
An allergic reaction to the baby's skin rarely has suppuration. But during the flowering of newborns, white pimples are quite common. At the same time, an allergy in an infant sometimes requires not only adherence to the diet of a nursing mother, but also additional treatment.
The baby's skin has a weak local immunity, so fungal infections can easily settle on it. If pimples in a newborn do not go away for a very long time, perhaps you are dealing not with flowering, but with a fungus. In such a situation, it is better to consult a pediatric dermatologist. Moreover, both infection and flowering can initially exist in parallel. But acne always goes away sooner or later. And the fungus needs treatment.
