One of the most disconsolate things for parents in summer is that the baby has prickly heat.
How itchy is the prickly heat? I believe that anyone who has grown up will never forget that feeling.
Therefore, how to treat prickly heat and how to prevent prickly heat always perplex countless parents.
Recently, many people have asked, can you use [ten drops of water] to prevent or treat prickly heat for your baby?
[Ten Drops of Water] Ding Ma didn’t know much about this medicine either, so she hurriedly asked Teacher Ji to tell her parents about it.
Can [ten drops of water] cure prickly heat?
Whether this problem can be treated or not is actually known by looking at the drug instructions.
In the drug instructions of [ten drops of water], the column of functional indications reads in black and white, [for dizziness, nausea, abdominal pain and gastrointestinal discomfort caused by heatstroke], and does not write that it can treat prickly heat.
Can [ten drops of water] prevent prickly heat?
Although some online news said that putting some [ten drops of water] in the bath water can prevent prickly heat.
However, according to the ingredients in the drug instructions, parents are not recommended to use [ten drops of water] to prevent prickly heat.
The main reason for not recommending is that [ten drops of water] contain camphor.
According to the professional authoritative Uptodate medical database, the U.S. Poison Control Center receives about 11,000 reports of children taking excessive camphor every year, 80% of whom are children under the age of six who eat camphor by mistake, and there are rare cases of external overdose.
Although the symptoms in most cases are relatively mild, there are also cases leading to refractory epilepsy.
In the United States, camphor-containing drugs are only used in children and adults over 2 years old, not babies under 2 years old. Camphor is also a harmful substance prohibited by Health Canada for children.
In addition to camphor, chili and ethanol are also irritating substances and are not suitable for delicate skin of infants. Whether diluted or not, it is not recommended.
Although [ten drops of water] are very cheap, it is not necessary to use [ten drops of water] to prevent and treat prickly heat at all. There is no effect on preventing and treating prickly heat and there is also a danger of poisoning. Why?
In fact, prickly heat can achieve good prevention and control effects by turning on air conditioning, blowing fans, dressing less, wrapping less, bathing frequently and other nursing methods.
Therefore, it is not recommended that mothers use ten drops of camphor-containing water on their babies in order to prevent prickly heat.
In addition, remind mothers that, in addition to ten drops of water, mint cream, cooling oil and essential balm, which are commonly used in our home, also contain camphor ingredients, which are also not recommended for babies under two years old. Perhaps you still have camphor-containing drugs in your home, so you can start tidying up the small medicine cabinet.
The two issues that parents are most concerned about,
1. Why is it okay for my children to use it?
Whether poisoning symptoms will occur is closely related to the dosage. Although there are relatively few cases caused by excessive external use, the possibility of occurrence exists.
Although many people say that their babies will be fine after using them, and they will be fine after using them several times, this does not guarantee that any baby will be fine after using them, nor can it guarantee that they will be fine in future use.
2. Why is the prickly heat really good after using it,
Parents use [ten drops of water] to prevent prickly heat for their children, basically dropping a few drops in the bath water for their babies. In daily care, they often pay attention to turning on the air conditioner to keep the room cool and refreshing and give their children less clothes.
However, keeping cool and refreshing and taking frequent baths could have improved the symptoms of prickly heat, which has nothing to do with [ten drops of water].
Don’t think that a few drops [ten drops] in the bath water have an effect, what really has an effect is the big basin after basin of bath water.
Finally, I would like to remind parents that they should carefully read the drug instructions when using any drugs for their babies.
Only by reading the drug instructions can one know fairly well when using it for the baby and not blindly follow blind faith.