The weather is getting hotter and hotter, the children are sweating a lot, and the dense little red dots are crawling all over their skin. How to drive away prickly heat, the doctor tells you one by one.
The cause of baby's prickly heat: sweat gland occlusion causes' burst of water pipe '
Actually, prickly heat is a skin disease. Prickly heat, also known as' perspiration rash ', is caused by a large number of persistent sweating, resulting in blocked sweat pores, which can occur in adults and children. Because baby metabolism exuberant, if do not change clothes or wipe perspiration in time, young skin is soaked by sweat for a long time, cause sweat gland block, sweat can't be discharged smoothly, accumulate more and more, finally sweat pipe is like 'burst water pipe', until sweat overflows, permeates all around the organization to cause inflammation reaction, thus produce red or white small prickly heat as we see.
Every July and August, is the high incidence period of baby prickly heat, as long as the weather turns cold, prickly heat can soon self heal. But if scratched it, likelihood secondary infection, folliculitis, furuncle is swollen, leave scar next.
How to help the baby to get rid of the prickly heat? Touch the child's back regularly
The most important thing to prevent prickly heat is not to wear too much clothes for children and keep the air in the room. Baby has been wearing sweat absorbing cotton clothes, dry and clean skin, can avoid or reduce the occurrence of prickly heat.
If the weather is very hot, you can turn on the air conditioner or use the electric fan in the baby's room, but you should stay away from it, so that the baby can enjoy the breeze and not get cold, and sleep quietly and comfortably at night. In the daytime, parents should touch their children's back regularly to see if their temperature is too high. If they find that they are sweaty and hot, they should immediately change clothes and cool down.
Treatment: remove the excess talcum powder
If the baby is already covered with red dots, mothers should not be too nervous. First of all, remember to cut your baby's nails frequently to avoid scratching the skin due to prickly heat and causing infection.
Talcum powder can be used, but it must not be too much. Otherwise, the powder will mix with sweat and block sweat glands. After the powder is finished, gently sweep the excess powder away.
There are differences between prickly ash powder and talcum powder. The former contains menthol, sublimated sulfur, salicylic acid and other ingredients, which has good antipruritic and antiphlogistic effects. In contrast, the main function of the latter is to absorb sweat and smooth the skin, which has a much smaller stimulating effect on the baby. Some ingredients in adult prickly heat powder can not be used for babies, otherwise it may cause nausea and vomiting, erythema, convulsion and abnormal urination.
In addition, I would like to remind you that if the prickly heat has not improved, or looks more serious, or even accompanied by fever, you must bring your baby to see a doctor.