The purpose of administering umbilical cord care is toreduce the risk of infection. This study compares 3 differentumbilical cord care regimens. No omphalitis wasfound. Furthermore, the use of SSP yields the shortestcord separation time and lowest percentages of bacterialcolonization. The results of using natural drying arealso better than using 75% alcohol.The observed longer cord separation time with thealcohol regimen compared with the natural drying orSSP care regimens is in line with data from otherstudies.5,9 Unlike several studies with 16.9 days,5 9.35days,11 14 days,4 and 11.7 days,15 mean cord separationtime in the alcohol group was 14.8 days. For the naturaldrying groups, the cord separation time in severalstudies was 12 days,4 7.5 days,5 7.64 days,11 7.7 days,14or 10.6 days,15 with 11.7 days in this study. Perhaps adifferent percentage of alcohol was used in other studies;several studies did not specify. In addition, localtemperature, humidity, and practice procedures mightall contribute to the time length difference, but thosestudies did not report these details.For using SSP, mean cord separation time was shortestin this study (6.8 days) and close to the study findingsof 5.6 days5 and 6 days.6 The shortest period was2 days in this study’s SSP group. This supports the conclusionthat the use of powder form is more effective in.