抄録
What worries a mother most is the treatment of the excrement of her infant, and it is an important element of the health care for the infant. When an infant is left with a wet diaper, the diaper tends to draw heat from the body and the water evaporates or the diaper dries up. To understand this process clearly, two kinds of experiment were performed.
1) The temperature fall in a model, A, of baby's lower half body which put a dry diaper and another similar model, B, with a wet diaper was investigated as the time went on. After 2 hours, it was found that the fall of the temperature in model B was greater both inside the body model and on the surface than in body model A.
2) The process of drying of the wet diaper was also investigated, and it was observed that the diaper rapidly dried up as the time proceeded. The microclimatic study showed that the temperature between the diaper and body fell while the humidity rose.
Through the above-mentioned observations, it has been confirmed that a wet diaper has an unfavorable effect on the health of an infant.
