This summer is especially hot, and there have been many more babies in the clinic recently who came to see the doctor because of prickly heat.
Bao’s parents were very anxious when they came and repeatedly asked the doctor, “What’s wrong with the baby’s skin?” It’s itchy and painful, and I can’t sleep well.]
It’s really long in my son’s body, and the pain is in my mother’s heart!
Indeed, in such high temperature weather, prickly heat is easy to find. If there is improper care, the baby will easily get prickly heat.
The prickly heat has various forms, so don’t recognize it in another way.
Prickly heat, also known as heat rash, is usually manifested as sparkling blisters on the skin surface. Some prickly heat attacks can also see the changes of small white bubbles.
In fact, both adults and children are likely to have prickly heat under the condition of more sweat and poor perspiration. However, because the sweat tube in the baby’s skin is not fully developed, the probability of prickly heat is significantly higher than that of adults, so parents need to pay more attention to the baby’s skin.
According to the morphological changes of prickly heat, it can be divided into white prickly heat, red prickly heat and deep prickly heat, of which red prickly heat also includes pus prickly heat.
White miliaria
White miliaria looks like a dense sparkling blister on healthy skin. White miliaria usually appears in pieces, generally not red or itchy, and can fade away quickly.
Red miliaria
Red prickly heat is relatively more common, the top of the rash can see small blisters, protruding, not protruding, red around, generally how long in the upper body and neck. Most red prickly heat is accompanied by pruritus, skin burning or slight tingling feeling.
If the small blister in the center of the red prickly heat turns into a small white bubble, it becomes a purulent prickly heat. These small bubbles usually grow on the baby’s face, head, limbs or private parts, etc., and will also bring itching discomfort. Usually these small bubbles are free from pathogenic bacteria and do not need to be treated with antibiotics.
Deep miliaria
Deep prickly heat is a rash that usually looks like pores on the surface and is similar to skin color. Most of them will not cause obvious discomfort. It is difficult to distinguish between naked eyes and other skin. Doctors are generally required to carry out professional screening. At this time, parents should not handle it at home. Should they go to see a doctor or have to go to see a doctor?
Don’t be nervous about the baby’s prickly heat, which can generally subside on its own.
Prickly heat is a very shallow change in the skin surface (except for deep prickly heat), which is not easy to cause infection. In most cases, even if it is scratched lightly, it doesn’t matter much. There is no need to be nervous or take drugs. Generally, it recovers quickly.
If there is a large area of skin scratches, you can go to the hospital and carry out relevant care and treatment under the guidance of the doctor. During the fading period of prickly heat, the baby may have some peeling symptoms, which is the normal reaction of skin repair. Applying some moisturizing cream at this time can promote skin repair.
The standard international treatment guidelines mentioned that the treatment of local prickly heat does not require medication. Try to let the baby stay in a cool place, reduce sweating and do a good job in local care. Generally, prickly heat can subside on its own in about a week.
However, if the baby is really itchy, relevant drugs can be used as appropriate.
Can these antipruritic products be used by babies?
Can the miliaria removal product be used or not?
Step 1: Ten drops of water
The [camphor] component contained in [ten drops of water] is not suitable for children under 2 years old, and is listed as a harmful substance prohibited for children in Canada.
In addition to camphor, the alcohol and chili components contained in [ten drops of water] are also irritating substances and are not suitable for baby’s tender skin.
2. Toilet Water
Borneol and mint ingredients in toilet water can indeed help relieve itching, but the alcohol in toilet water is more irritating to the baby’s skin, and smearing on the parts with serious prickly heat may aggravate the disease, so it is not recommended for the baby.
In addition to toilet water, all kinds of water containing alcohol (ethanol) are not suitable for babies. In addition, the folk spread more widely frost mulberry leaves, purslane, watermelon peel, cucumber juice, as well as pine pollen, corn flour and other kinds of edible powder, as well as the so-called pure natural three yellow soup, honeysuckle dew, are not used to remove prickly heat for babies.
This can’t be applied, that can’t be wiped, the baby has prickly heat mother can only worry?
In fact, prickly heat is a very shallow change in the skin surface and is not easy to cause infection. In most cases, it doesn’t matter much even if you scratch it lightly. Mothers don’t need to be nervous or take drugs, and generally recover quickly.
If there is a large area of skin scratch, you can go to the hospital for treatment and carry out relevant nursing and treatment under the guidance of the doctor.
When the prickly heat subsides, the baby may have some peeling. Don’t worry, this is a normal reaction. Mothers can apply some moisturizing lotion to the baby to get better faster.
Looking at the baby’s itching and pain, the mother can’t do nothing, can she?
Of course not.
Let’s talk about the correct opening method of [removing prickly heat and relieving itching].
Do 5 things well and say goodbye to prickly heat easily.
Step 1 Wipe your body with calamine lotion
Generally speaking, in the initial stage of prickly heat, it is possible to apply some calamine lotion or powder in a short period of time to relieve itching, but the application times should not be too many, and after applying for a period of time, the residual powder should be wiped off in time with a wet towel.
Especially when the baby’s prickly heat fades quickly and the blisters have been absorbed, it is not recommended to apply calamine powder or lotion repeatedly.
The residual calamine lotion will excessively absorb the water on the baby’s skin surface. If it is not removed in time, it will further damage the skin barrier and aggravate rash symptoms.
2. Turn on the air conditioner to cool the baby
The root cause of the baby’s prickly heat is that the weather is too hot, so the first thing to do is to cool down. The baby can blow the air conditioner like adults in summer and turn on the electric fan. Generally, the air conditioner temperature is controlled above 25 degrees, and the fan does not blow directly.
3. Always bathe your baby with warm water.
The baby has prickly heat and cannot sweat because sweat blocks sweat glands. Therefore, in high temperature days, special attention should be paid to cleaning the baby, bathing or wiping the body with warm water to keep the body fresh.
4. Wear cotton clothes for your baby
Clothes, should give the baby wear loose, absorbent, good air permeability of pure cotton thin clothes, in order to prevent the occurrence of prickly heat. In addition, polyester and other material clothes have poor air permeability, easy to cover sweat, try not to give the baby to wear.
5. Turn over your baby more when you sleep.
The weather is hot, the baby is easy to sweat when sleeping, and the wet skin surface is easy to provide a hotbed for the growth of prickly heat. Therefore, it is suggested that when the baby sweats obviously, it should be gently wiped off sweat with a wet towel in time to keep the body dry.
These methods can promote the early regression of prickly heat and are also necessary means to prevent the occurrence of prickly heat.
I hope today’s article can help the babies to break up with the prickly heat as soon as possible. I hope every lovely baby can spend this hot summer comfortably and happily.