In order to understand where it itches, you need to wash the baby, lubricate the delicate skin on the ass with baby cream and put on dry sliders without a diaper. If your baby calmed down, then the reason is that the diaper irritates the skin or dry skin on the ass. If, after hygiene procedures, he did not stop whimpering, then the child's anus itches. The older kid will tell you what worries him. Children should be taught to wash themselves not only in the morning and evening, but also after each “trip” to the toilet.
Need to find the cause of the itching
To understand why it itches in the anus, you should contact the pediatrician. Itching can occur with frequent bowel movements, that is, with an upset stomach. The skin of small children is tender, and diarrhea strongly corrodes it, which is why it itches in the anus even after washing. In this case, the doctor will advise how to get rid of diarrhea and recommend how and what to feed the child so that there is no indigestion. But if everything is in order with the stomach, there is no diarrhea, and the child itches in the anus at night more than during the day, what then?
Need a stool test
Most likely, these are pinworms. Thin living threads of white color, 8 to 12 millimeters long, settled in the large intestine of the child and want to multiply. To do this, pinworms crawl out of the anus and lay their eggs in moist skin folds. Parasites living in the intestines multiply once every two weeks. That's the reason why it itches in the anus. Analyzes will show their presence, and medication will be prescribed. Usually, anthelmintic tablets are taken once, and the dose is repeated after 2 weeks. The whole family needs to be treated. Pinworm eggs are very small and can get under the nails and remain there even after washing your hands. Most often, more than one family member gets sick with pinworms, so preventive treatment will not hurt everyone.
To speed up recovery, you can add a little "amateur".
- If every evening and every morning to wipe all the folds near the anus and in the groin, too, wetting a napkin with boric alcohol, itching decreases, and boric alcohol will destroy the daily "brood" of pinworms. And the question of why your child itches in the anus will stop worrying you.
- After daily bathing of the child, make water in the bath with chamomile infusion. Let the child lie down in this water for ten minutes. You can use weak solutions of calendula or oak bark.
- A solution of ordinary baking soda is also good for baths, it softens the skin well and disinfects it.
After herbal or soda baths, the child's anus itches less, but they will not completely get rid of pinworms. The doctor's appointment must be completed, and then re-take stool tests.
Make sure children always have their nails cut short, then there will be less chance of re-infection with pinworms.
In rare cases, children have hemorrhoids, and sometimes there are fungal diseases. Therefore, an examination by a specialist is also necessary in order to eliminate suspicions of these diseases.
