Hot summer, for those who are prone to perspiration, it is easy to grow prickly heat, which is dense and itchy. What should we do in summer? For parents who have babies at home, they should pay more attention to their baby's health at all times! So what good method does summer long prickly heat have to dispel prickly heat and stop itching?
After the baby grows prickly heat, it needs the mother's careful care.
First, cool the baby. Untie or take off your baby's clothes and take him to a ventilated room or shade.
Second, you can put your baby on a cotton towel, which helps absorb sweat. Cold compress raw prickly heat with a cool wet towel. Add a little sodium bicarbonate (bicarbonate and soda) to the baby's warm water bath, add 4-4.5 teaspoons (about two teaspoons per gallon of water) for every 10 liters of water, or relieve the prickly heat.
After bathing the baby, let the baby's body air dry naturally, do not use towel to wipe.
Experts suggest: Summer baby is most likely to be entangled in prickly heat, in addition to skin itching intolerable, but also more easily fidgety and restless sleep than usual. In this case, a smart mother should learn to take preventive and therapeutic actions together, take a bath frequently to cool her baby and keep her skin dry. For babies with prickly heat on their skin, the mother should choose the anti prickly heat cream instead of prickly heat powder (mainly for prevention). Among them, Baoduo baby plant anti prickly heat cream, which contains extracts of mother chrysanthemum, purslane, honeysuckle, mint and so on, has a good reputation among the mothers. You may as well try it.
In addition, in the hot night, the baby's room can turn on air conditioning or electric fans. The direction of the fan blowing should be close to the baby, but not directly to him. Or put the fan away, as long as there is a little gentle wind to the baby. It's mainly to make the child feel comfortable. You don't want him to get cold!
How to deal with prickly heat in summer
Lotus leaf bath
That is to say, take a piece of fresh lotus leaf, boil it with clear water for 20 minutes, and mix the lotus leaf water with warm water to bathe the baby. It can not only prevent prickly heat, but also make the baby's skin fresh and tender. Lotus leaf can clear away heat, detoxify and cool blood, dry products can also be fried and washed, and it is also suitable for adults.
External application of Artemisia ordosica
That is, take five pieces of fresh Artemisia annua (about 20g), soak in boiling water for about 1 hour, and then dip cotton swab or gauze in the soaking solution of Artemisia annua to gently wipe the affected area. According to traditional Chinese medicine, Artemisia ordosica has the effects of anti-inflammatory, heat clearing and detoxification.
Diluted ten drops of water
First, wipe the sweat and grease of the affected skin with lukewarm boiled water, then squeeze out a few drops of ten drops of water and lukewarm boiled water in the proportion of 1:10 to dilute and then apply to the affected area, and air dry naturally. The number of times per day can be increased or decreased depending on the amount of prickly heat. For the first time, it is suggested to use it under the guidance of a doctor of traditional Chinese medicine.
Huoxiang Zhengqi water scrubbing
Take one piece of Huoxiang Zhengqi water and dilute it with cold boiled water or normal saline in proportion. The dilution concentration is: 1:3 for those less than 3 months; 1:2 for those 4-12 months; 1:1 for those over 1 year old. Wash and dry the affected area with warm water before using the medicine, and then smear the affected area with disinfectant cotton dipped in diluted solution 2-3 times a day.
Treating prickly heat with ginger juice
Use fresh ginger to wipe your body, can prevent and cure prickly heat. If you have prickly heat, use fresh ginger to smear the affected area directly, and it will disappear after a few hours.
Boiled purslane water
Scrub the prickly ash with water boiled with purslane. In the morning and evening, after the second wipe, the prickly heat began to subside. After three wipes, the prickly heat disappeared. Purslane, leaves oblate oval, purple stem, roadside, grass can be found.
Prickly heat with raw cucumber juice
Apply raw cucumber juice or cucumber slices to the affected area respectively, and generally recover 2 to 3 times.
Double flower bath
Shuanghua bath liquid refers to honeysuckle and wild chrysanthemum, both of which have the effect of clearing away heat and detoxification. Take 30 grams of honeysuckle and chrysanthemum, decoct water for standby, and refer to the proportion of bathing water above, generally wash and soak for 5-10 minutes, it is very cool after bathing, and it can also prevent and cure prickly heat.
Skin rubbing of fresh wax gourd
Appropriate amount of fresh wax gourd, peeled and sliced, rubbed outside the affected area, three times a day.
Bathing method of Aiye MINT
Boil the wormwood or mint for half an hour, cool it to a proper temperature and take a bath. Wormwood leaf and peppermint both have volatile oil components, which have bacteriostatic effect. After prickly heat is born, the skin protection has been lost. Bathing with wormwood leaf water can prevent infection; peppermint can help volatilize and dissipate heat.
Application of balsam pear juice
Balsam pear has the effect of relieving heat, brightening eyes and detoxifying. You can eat balsam pear and daub it directly (but children don't like the taste of balsam pear generally, so it's more suitable to daub it with juice). You can also choose the ripe bitter melon, take out the pulp, and then pour 50g of boron into the traditional Chinese medicine. After the borax dissolves, the water will flow out and smear the affected area with this kind of water. Borax has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, detumescence and antisepsis.
Prickly ash with watermelon peel
Watermelon can calm, quench thirst and go to summer. The white part of watermelon has curative effect on prickly heat. Children born prickly heat, the white part of watermelon can be used to rub the affected area, very effective, repeated rub two or three times, you can stop itching.
Water coating of honeysuckle
Honeysuckle has the effect of clearing away heat and detoxifying. Light prickly heat can be washed out with honeysuckle water. Honeysuckle can be bought in tea shop or drugstore. Soak it in boiling water for about an hour and then cool it. Dip cotton swab or gauze in honeysuckle soaking solution to clean the affected area. Several times a day, or use honeysuckle boiling water to bathe is a good choice.