Newborn exposed to the sun without protection to 16 days of life: saved by two rugby players and a sports doctor. The pediatrician: “Under six months the sun is absolutely not recommended”

The lived face, scrolls throughout the body. And cry. So in the pine forest of Cortellazzo, Venice, along the North Adriatic coast, last Saturday a girl of Ukrainian origin on a camping holiday with her mother and two other small brothers was saved in extremis by a Treviso sports doctor and two rugby players from the Homar Villorba-Treviso. «The mother, in shock, escaped with the girl in her arms. We stopped it and took the little girl in custody while 118 came “

The story is that of An ordinary Saturday in summer. Families with small children who choose the cortellazzo pine forest for the holidays. Games, cackles. But those cries were not normal. For this reason, a group of bathers gave the alarm. «When we saw the newborn we understood that there was no minute to lose – they tell the Gazette Pierpaolo Serena, social doctor of the homar Villorba Rugby and Alvise Bavarian and Dennis Silva, two players from the team – The mother, frightened by our intervention also due to the linguistic barrier that did not allow her to understand, took the little girl and took refuge in a tent. We followed her and brought the rescuers from her ». 118 prevented the little girl from going in shock And then he urgently brought the girl to the hospital in San Donà di Piave where she arrived in critical conditions. Now she is hospitalized in the specialized pediatric center of Padua: her conditions are serious but it is no longer in danger of life. «Solar exposure is absolutely not recommended in the first six months of life – explains Anna Claudia Massolo, pediatrician, researcher at the Neonatal Intensive Therapy Department of the Bambin Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome, and psychotherapist and teacher at the Institute at Beck – And in any case it is imperative that infants dress light light cotton clothing that cover the areas on display. After six months you must always use 50+ creams specifics for children, more resistant to water. They must be repeated every two or three hours, even if the child is in the shade. For sun exposure, it must be remembered that the recommended time slots are early in the morning by 11 and afternoon after 5pm. Avoid the hottest hours and do not leave the children in the water in the sun for more than half an hour but bring them to the shade, make them drink in small sips and hydrate them with pieces of watermelon and melon to stop the water water. Remember that Heat stroke deceives, because the child does not sweat so it is not always easy to recognize».

But the summer in Northeast will also be remembered for the death of little Carlo Panizzo, 6 years old, escaped the control of the mother and drowned at sea in Caorle (Venice) last Monday.

«For the safety in the water we speak first of all about Active surveillance: not even children should be left alone. The control distance is that of an arm at most. The advice to parents is to avoid phones and also chatter with other adults. When there are more adults, above all it is important to designate an adult who specifically deal with control. Then it is necessary to teach children to swim as soon as possible but together help them know the water. Immerse yourself abruptly after exposure to the sun can cause hydrocution syndrome (a thermal shock resulting between the body temperature and the cold of the water) which in some cases causes loss of consciousness. We remind parents that the drowning is silent, active surveillance does not consist in looking at the child from afar because, at sea or in the pool, he does not ask for help but inhales water. Twenty seconds are enough for a drowning “