Warning on using tape to keep children warm

You should not use heating pads, especially for children, because their skin is very thin and difficult to let the heat escape if you stick them on...

In recent days, the weather in Hanoi has been extremely cold, with temperatures dropping sharply, sometimes below 6 degrees Celsius. To keep children warm, many people have bought heating pads to use. However, according to medical experts, if you use heating pads regularly, it will affect the health of children.

To cope with the cold weather in recent years, many people in Hanoi have bought heat-retaining patches to keep warm, especially families with elderly people and children. Many people think that heat-retaining patches are very convenient for warming children in the winter, because they warm the body quickly, are compact, easy to use, so they are chosen to buy quite a lot.

Currently on the market, the price of a bag of 5 heat-retaining patches ranges from 50,000 VND to 150,000 VND/bag, depending on the manufacturer. There are 2 types of heat-retaining patches in the cold season: the type that can be pasted and the type that cannot be pasted. Normally, people often choose the type that can be pasted to use.

Heat-retaining patches are advertised and sold on the market.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Lan, in Hoan Kiem district, said: "Hearing from friends that it was convenient to use, I bought a heat-retaining patch to put on my child to send him to school. I put it on my child mainly to protect him from the cold weather and to prevent him from catching a cold caused by the weather."

However, because many people overuse this heating patch, it has led to unfortunate consequences for children such as red, blistered, peeling or pale skin... Medical experts recommend only using heat patches when absolutely necessary, including adults and children.

Doctor Nguyen Tien Dung, Head of the Pediatrics Department at Bach Mai Hospital, said: "All types of warming patches only make you feel warm, but they don't keep you warm enough. Because the patch can only be applied to a certain area, but our skin area can release heat, so to keep the whole body warm, you have to wear warm clothes, your hands and feet have to wear socks, and your head has to wear a hat, so applying it to one place is useless.

I recommend not using any kind of heating patches, especially for children, because children's skin is very thin, if you stick it on it won't let the steam out, and if the skin's breathing is poor, it's dangerous, so doctors all over the world almost never recommend using any kind of skin patches"./.

According to VOV.VN