4hw.com.cn: many Baoma can't distinguish between eczema and prickly heat. Prickly heat often occurs in summer, and eczema can happen all year round. What are the differences between prickly heat and eczema? How to treat eczema?
1. Different reasons
Prickly heat is caused by obstruction of sweat pores, and there are many causes of eczema, often unstable. The common causes of eczema are: eating some fish, shrimp, eggs, cattle, mutton, etc.; inhaling some pollen, such as dust mite, wool, etc.; infection of lesions, such as tonsillitis, etc.; sunlight, heat, dryness, etc. in the living environment; chemicals, such as cosmetics, soap, etc.; dyspepsia, gastric dysfunction, metabolic disorders, etc. It can be seen that prickly heat is a temporary disease and eczema is a chronic course.
2. Different seasons
Prickly heat occurs in summer, mostly in children. Eczema can occur all year round, regardless of age and age. But often recur or aggravate in winter, have oozy tendency, chronic course of disease, easy to relapse.
3. Different site of occurrence
Prickly heat often occurs in the neck, chest back, elbow socket, popliteal fossa and other parts, children can occur in the head, forehead and other sweaty parts. Eczema can occur in any part, mostly in the cheek, forehead, eyebrow arch, ear and other parts.
4. Different symptoms
In fact, prickly heat is a mild inflammation of sweat glands. At the beginning, the skin turns red, and then there are red papules or herpes mounds about the size of needles. Some of them are purulent. After giving birth to prickly heat, it is itchy and painful, and sometimes there is a hot burning pain.
Eczema is an inflammatory skin disease of the epidermis and the superficial dermis. At the beginning, the skin turns red with a red papule the size of a needle. The manifestations were symmetrical, exudative, pruritus, pleomorphism and recurrence. Eczema is characterized by the diversity of rashes, symmetrical distribution, repeated severe itching and easy to develop into chronic.
The best treatment for eczema
1. General principles of treatment:
There are many kinds of drugs that can be used for eczema. Parents should use them under the guidance of doctors. Before replacing a new drug, be sure to clean up the drug used before. When changing medicine, it's best to rub a small piece of eczema on the baby's skin first and observe the effect to decide whether to use it or not. Avoid aggravating the disease due to improper use of drugs.
What kind of method is used to treat infantile eczema depends on the eczema performance, such as local erythema, papule, scale, scab, hormone drugs and ointment are not allowed. If the expression fester exudate is much, should use solution cold wet compress, wait for scab to besmear cream of ringworm of milk again.
For infants with mild eczema, only local medication is needed, but drug abuse is not allowed, so as to avoid skin damage or infection.
2. Cold and wet compress:
(1) Commonly used 1:10000 potassium permanganate solution wet compress (pay attention to make the potassium permanganate completely dissolved, the undissolved potassium permanganate will burn the baby's skin), not only make the wound clean, but also play the role of sterilization convergence and oxidation.
(2) 4-6 layers of fine gauze, with no dripping as appropriate, apply the wet gauze on the wound surface, and determine the replacement time and times according to the amount of eczema exudate. When the exudate absorbed by the gauze has reached the semi saturation level, replace the gauze. Two to three times a day. When there is a lot of exudate, the dressing should be changed frequently during wet application to avoid the dressing full of exudate staying on the wound for a long time, stimulating the surrounding normal skin, causing the wound to expand.
(3) For large area eczema, proper attention should be paid to the nature, concentration of the drug and the size of the wet area.
(4) If the swelling of the wound subsides gradually, the exudate decreases, and the wound is dry, the wet compress can be stopped and the paste can be used instead.
(5) Please pay attention when cold and wet compress: wet compress area should not exceed 1 / 3 of the whole body area, so as to avoid excessive evaporation of the body surface causing dehydration of the baby.