In the hot summer, it's easy for babies to grow prickly heat due to excessive sweating. Babies like to scratch very much, and it's easy to make their skin red and swollen. So what should babies do with prickly heat? Let's have a look.
How does darling grow prickly heat to do on the body
First of all, to cool the baby. Untie or take off baby's clothes and take baby to a ventilated room or a shady place.
Secondly, you can also put your baby on a cotton towel, which helps to absorb sweat. Use a cool wet towel to apply cold compress to the place where the rash is produced. Give the baby a little warm water bath, add a little sodium bicarbonate (baking soda, edible alkali), add 4-4.5 teaspoons (about 2 teaspoons per gallon of water) per 10 liters of water, can also alleviate the rash.
After giving the baby a bath, let the baby's body dry naturally. Don't wipe it with a towel. Do not apply ointment or oil cream on the prickly heat, which will hinder the evaporation of water vapor and make the prickly heat more serious.
In the hot night, the baby's room can be turned on air conditioning or electric fan. The direction of the fan should be close to the baby, but not directly to him. Or put the fan away, as long as there is a little soft wind blowing on the baby.
Methods of preventing heat rash
Diet is very important for the prevention and treatment of heat rash. Here are some treatments:
1. 60 grams of wax gourd, add water to fry soup, one dose a day, for 7-8 days.
2. Mung bean amount, fresh lotus leaf, add water to fry.
3. White gourd, kelp, mung bean right amount of decoction, add a little sugar, take for 7-10 days.
4. Purslane, towel gourd each 20 grams, fried water service.
5. Wash 5-6 pieces of black plum, decoct for 30 minutes, add 6 grams of honeysuckle, decoct for 20 minutes, take the juice to remove the residue, add sugar, cool and drink.
There are also some folk prescription can be used to prevent heat rash, in the usual diet a little attention can be.
1. Watermelon is rich in summer. Watermelon can not only clear away heat, cool blood and quench thirst, but also prevent the occurrence of heat rash. Watermelon skin is a traditional Chinese medicine, called 'watermelon Cuiyi'. Washing watermelon peel, slicing, boiling soup, or making dishes, long-term consumption, also has a good effect on the prevention of prickly heat.
2. Summer advocates eating bitter food, balsam pear is the best choice. Balsam pear can increase appetite, clear away heat and relieve summer heat. Eating more balsam pear can prevent the occurrence of heat rash.
3. There are three kinds of beans, namely mung bean, red bean and black bean. They look good together. If they are boiled into soup, it is called 'three bean soup' in traditional Chinese medicine. Sandou decoction has the effect of clearing away heat and toxin, invigorating spleen and removing dampness, which is known as the best health care product for children in summer. If you take it from the beginning of summer, children rarely have rash. Specific system method: with mung bean, red bean, black bean each 10 grams, add water 600 ml, small fire boil into 300 ml, even beans with soup to drink, should often take. If 20 grams of Coix seed are added to the soup, the effect is better.