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How to prevent infants from getting prickly heat in summer

A baby's delicate skin will produce prickly heat in summer, so it is very important to care for the baby. Let's take a look at the nursing methods to prevent prickly heat with Xiaobian~

Skills of preventing prickly heat in summer

1. Strengthen skin care and keep skin clean

Parents must strengthen the baby's skin care to ensure that the baby's skin is clean, frequently cut nails, keep hands clean, avoid scratching the skin secondary bacterial infection. Do not powder baby refreshing skin care products, so as not to mix with sweat to block the opening of sweat glands, resulting in poor sweating, causing inflammation around the sweat glands.

2. Light diet

When feeding infants, they should pay attention to the light diet, eat more heat clearing and heat relieving food, and eat some light and digestible food for infants, with proper nutrition, which can be supplemented with foods rich in protein and vitamins, and also supplement a proper amount of salt in the diet. To let the baby drink more water, timely supplement water, such as more mung bean soup, winter melon soup, loofah soup, chrysanthemum water, more watermelon and other fruits, play the role of heat clearing and heat dispelling.

3. Frequent bathing

In summer, you should often bathe your baby, which can effectively prevent the appearance of prickly heat. You can wash it 2-3 times a day. When bathing, the water temperature should not be too cold or too hot, about 38-42 ℃, please do not use soap, bath solution, etc. Do not apply too much talcum powder to the baby after bathing, so as not to mix with sweat and block sweat glands, resulting in poor sweating and prickly heat.

4. Properly control the time and amount of outdoor activities

At ordinary times, we also need to pay attention to controlling the time and amount of outdoor activities of the baby. In summer, we need to appropriately control the time and amount of outdoor activities of the baby. When taking the baby for outdoor activities, don't play in the strong sunlight, avoid the hottest time in summer, and choose the cool weather to play in the shade in the morning and evening.

5. Pay attention to water supplement

In summer, the weather is hot and the water evaporates quickly. At this time, we must pay attention to replenishing the water for the baby. Drink more water for the baby, turn over frequently, avoid the prickly heat caused by local overheating. Pay attention to the small amount of water for the baby, slow drinking, sub drinking, do not give the baby a large amount of water, this will cause reflective sweating.

6. Keep the environment fresh

Usually the baby's living environment also needs more attention. If it's hot and humid, it's easy to get prickly heat. Therefore, it is necessary to keep indoor ventilation and heat dissipation to reduce infant sweating and facilitate sweat evaporation; the indoor high temperature and damp heat environment can be improved through air conditioning, fans and other equipment, and the room temperature is best kept at about 25 ℃, and the humidity is also not more than 60%. But be careful not to let the wind blow the baby. See baby sweat dripping, should be wiped dry sweat in time, do not use a cool towel to wipe. Cold water stimulation can make the sweat gland mouth suddenly closed, making it easier to produce prickly heat.

7. Loose clothes

Baby's clothes in summer should be loose, the best acid pure cotton clothes, baby's summer clothes should be light, soft and wide, often replaced, the best is pure cotton fabric with good water absorption and air permeability, in order to reduce the irritation of clothes on the skin, which is conducive to the dissipation of body heat