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How to distinguish eczema from rash

4hw.com.cn: every summer, when the temperature gradually rises, the baby is particularly susceptible to illness, especially prickly heat, but many parents can't distinguish between prickly heat and eczema. So what's the difference between prickly heat and eczema? Let's have a look!

Difference between prickly heat and eczema

1. Differences in symptoms

Symptoms of prickly heat

Prickly heat usually starts in a hot environment, comes quickly, and subsides quickly in a cool environment. Prickly heat generally has a small white tip, which is easy to appear on the forehead and back, sometimes light and sometimes heavy. 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.

Symptoms of eczema

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.

There are papules, rashes or herpes on the cheek, forehead, eyebrow arch and behind the ear, accompanied by exudate, forming gray or yellow scab after drying.

2. The difference between seasons

Time of prickly heat

Prickly heat is generally caused by prickly heat. Prickly heat occurs in summer. Due to excessive sweating, the sweat is not discharged smoothly and stays in the skin, causing inflammation around the sweat glands. In hot summer, when fat children cry loudly or hold their children for a long time, it is easy to have prickly heat.

Eczema season

Eczema can occur all the year round. Generally, children who are just a few weeks old are most likely to develop eczema.

3. Difference of parts

Location of prickly heat

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.

Site of eczema

Eczema can occur in any part, mostly in the cheek, forehead, eyebrow arch, ear and other parts.