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Article: Why washing baby every day 'could lead to skin problems'.
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- June 4, 2007
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PARENTS may be damaging their babies' skin by bathing them too often, experts are warning.
Infants today are twice as likely to have skin problems such as eczema as their parents' generation, a study has revealed.
Childcare experts are blaming the dramatic rise on the fact that most babies are now washed once a day.
They advise parents to bath babies no more than three times a week. Experts believe that, until babies start crawling, they do not get dirty enough to justify more frequent full baths.
More than one in three babies - 37 per cent of boys and 33 per cent 'could of girls - now suffer from sensitive skin. This is twice the rate ...