Summer is hot, and babies have more and more skin problems.
The baby has prickly heat, the baby is bitten by mosquitoes, sweating too much and flooding the skin… Everything can break the old mother’s heart.
Today, Amway is a cheap and easy-to-use skin care artifact for mothers-calamine lotion.
Perhaps many mothers have not heard of it. In fact, a bottle of calamine lotion can handle many skin pruritus problems of children.
Today, we invited dermatologist Yuan Chao to have a good talk with his mothers about the [magic power] of calamine lotion.
The humble calamine has such a big position.
Speaking of the history of calamine, it can be traced back to more than N years ago.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, the antipruritic effect of calamine was already sealed by the Imperial Medicine Hospital.
In < < Waidan Materia Medica > >, it is also described as: [removing nebula and red, warming and astringing sores. It can be used to treat red eyes, nebula, rotten strings and wind eyes, ulcer and wet skin sores].
Can’t you understand ancient prose? Don’t mention it! In short, calamine has obvious effects in relieving itching and astringing skin.
Hundreds of years have passed, and calamine, as an antipruritic panacea for various skin diseases, has been used to this day.
Safe and non-irritating, antipruritic effect is excellent
For many dermatologists, calamine lotion is one of the most commonly prescribed skin topical drugs with a safety index of five stars.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also included calamine lotion in the list of basic drugs for children and recommended it as a safe drug for infants.
Because the composition of calamine lotion is very simple, it is made of calamine, zinc oxide, glycerin and distilled water, and there is no other excess addition.
Calamine astringes and relieves itching, zinc oxide absorbs moisture and moisturizes skin, and glycerin has powerful moisturizing function. Either way, it is very friendly to baby’s skin and will not irritate at all.
In particular, mothers should be reminded that some calamine lotions will be added with menthol, so babies under 2 years old should not use them, which will have bad effects on the nervous system.
Pickly heat, chickenpox, skin [flooding], a variety of problems solved in one bottle
Although the composition of calamine lotion is simple, it can be widely used for various skin problems.
1. Prickly heat
At the beginning of prickly heat, it is usually red dots. If it is not carefully cared for, it will turn into small blisters and grow into white prickly heat.
No matter whether it is red prickly heat or white prickly heat, the baby will feel itchy and uncomfortable. At this time, take out calamine lotion to wipe it, and the pruritus can be effectively relieved.
Calamine sold in pharmacies is usually in large bottles. Mothers can pack it into small bottles and take it with them. Once the baby can’t stand itching, they will take it out immediately [for emergency].
Step 2: Mosquito bites
Babies are the main target of mosquito bites. Once bitten, they will immediately swell up a small bag.
Although most mosquito bags can fade by themselves, they really itch!
If you constantly scratch and stimulate the skin, the mosquito bag will become more and more serious and eventually develop dermatitis.
This time calamine lotion can be used, rub on the skin cool, very comfortable, antipruritic effect is also bar.
More importantly, calamine preparation can be smeared repeatedly, avoiding the use of some hormone ointment.
Step 3: Skin is flooded
The weather is hot, children often get sweaty when they move a little and drink milk.
Sweat sticks to the body to irritate the skin. Chubby babies, such as neck, thigh root and other wrinkled parts of the skin, are easily irritated by sweat to cause skin redness and erosion in serious cases.
If calamine lotion is used immediately before the skin is damaged or seeps water, it has obvious astringent effect, and the protective film formed by the powder can also effectively slow down the friction of the baby’s skin.
4. Urticaria
For the baby, urticaria can’t be caught, the more you catch the rash, the more. However, looking at the baby so uncomfortable, how to relieve itching also makes the mother very headache.
At this time, we might as well consider calamine lotion. It not only relieves itching quickly, but also has certain local anti-inflammatory effect, which is very effective in dealing with urticaria.
Especially for babies of small months old, they cannot take drugs orally, so calamine lotion for external use is especially important.
Step 5: Chickenpox
Everyone has learned the power of chickenpox, which is not only menacing, but also extremely itchy. Sick babies must not scratch, scratching is easy to cause skin infection.
Mothers may not know that calamine lotion is the first choice for external drugs to treat chickenpox. When the baby can’t stand itching, gently apply a layer to effectively relieve discomfort.
The correct use of calamine depends on these two points.
Although calamine preparation is very safe for infants, it is not available under any circumstances. Mothers should pay attention to the following two points:
1. Do not apply skin damage
Calamine lotion cannot be used to relieve itching for rash that breaks or exudes water.
Calamine lotion is applied to the skin and forms a film when the moisture completely evaporates.
For acute, broken or exuded skin, if a thick layer of powder-like film is applied, it is not conducive to the drying of the skin surface.
STEP 2 Don’t apply it too many times
Some mothers will have doubts. They said before that calamine lotion can be applied repeatedly. Why do they say not to apply it too many times now?
In fact, when the powder is smeared for the first time, the formed film is just in good condition. If it is smeared repeatedly, layers of films will be superimposed, which is too thick and not conducive to the recovery of rash.
The correct method is to wash off the traces left over from the previous application with warm water before each application, gently dry them, and then apply them for the second time.
Ensure that the powder is in direct contact with the skin every time, so as to give full play to the maximum effect of the drug.
Calamine lotion, which is easy to use and safe, is also very convenient to buy.
Go out and turn left. The pharmacy at the gate can buy it for less than 10 yuan. It is really a necessary medicine for home travel with good quality and low price.
Finally, don’t forget to shake it before using it.