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The sun also burns hot in the city, just as much as at the seaside. A baby's skin may react to them more strongly, however. Our surroundings reflect the UV rays that reach the Earth to a different degree. The sun's rays reflect the most from the heated city streets and walls, and slightly less from the grass and sand.
UV rayseasily penetrate most fabrics of which clothes are sewn. The so-called clothes with filters that are made of specially woven fibers. Therefore, before your child leaves the house, lubricate themwith sunscreenas if they were going to the beach.
Sunscreen is an effective protection against the sun
Some filters have a short lifetime - they oxidize within approx. 2 hours when applied to the skin. This process is accelerated by sweat and water, as well as sand, which mechanically rubs the cream off the skin. Therefore, if you know that your child will be physically active during the day, and you will not be able to lubricate it with cream again, make sure that your child can do it on their own. For this purpose, it is worth getting a smaller capacity cream package that will fit in your pocket.
A hat and glasses will protect the child's eyes from the sun
The baby's eyes must also be protected againstthe sun . It's easy, if your child has good eyesight - all they need is a cap or a baseball hat and sunglasses. It is best to buy glasses in an optician's shop, because only such purchases guarantee that the lenses have filters. The glasses from the bazaar, although cheaper, do not provide such certainty - the glasses in them are colored dark, but most often they do not have a filter. Looking through them may even end up with a retinal burn, because the child does not blink his eyes then, so the rays reach the eye without obstruction. If your child wears glasses, you can - also at the optician's - order him / her UV tinting lenses or glasses with special sun caps that are attached to the frame with a magnet.
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