Current recommendations for a newborn’s skin care: traditions and innovations (literature review)
Belyaeva I. A.

National Medical Research Center of Children’s Health, Moscow
Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow

Protecting the sensitive skin of newborns, as well as maintaining the integrity and health of the skin barrier is a difficult but important task for professionals in the neonatal period which can have an impact on skin health in the future. Understanding the unique differences of the skin of newborn babies is essential for a daily care, including bathing, caring for the umbilical cord, and applying emollients to dry skin. In recent years, some practical approaches to the care of newborns have been revised, including excessive «hygienic activity», but the basic components of caring for a healthy and damaged skin of the baby remain unchanged and are based on an understanding of the anatomical and physiological features of the skin of a newborn baby as one of the most important functional systems. Tactics of a newborn’s skin care should be aimed primarily at preventing potentially harmful influences from environmental factors and requires a paradigm shift: from examining which product or regimen can be useful, to how possible intervention can lead to unexpected negative consequences, based on from the universal postulate «do no harm».

Key words: skin, newborn baby, skin care, bathing, diaper dermatitis, D-panthenol.
For citation: Belyaeva I. A. Current recommendations for a newborn’s skin care: traditions and innovations (literature review) // 
RMJ. 2018. № 2(II). P. 125–128.