Giving Your Baby A Night Bath May be Causing Eczema and others

 

How clean is too clean when it comes to bathing kids?

Bath, story, bed. It’s the wind down mantra for many a frazzled parent, but one parenting blogger believes that giving your baby a bath every night might not actually be the best advice.

Lauren Knight believes that giving her eldest son a bath every night may have caused him to develop mild eczema on his back,buttocks and legs. But it was only when she went on to have two more children and struggled to fit in a nightly bath that she noticed the potential connection.

“During the times our children went for three (or more, I admit) days without a bath, I noticed that our oldest boy’s skin seemed healthier and less irritated,” Lauren wrote in the Washington Post.

At the same time she noticed there were no negative effects when her sons went days without bathing. “I was also pleasantly surprised to find that none of our kids smelled or looked dirty,” she said.