How to deal with heat rash on baby's face

Heat rash, commonly known as prickly heat, is caused by the rising temperature, which causes the body's sweat glands to be unable to expel moisture from the body in time. It is more likely to occur in infants and young children. Since heat rash can cause great discomfort to children, especially unbearable itching, if a child develops heat rash, parents need to take active measures and provide careful care for their children. So, how do you deal with heat rash on your baby’s face?

1. Causes

1. The ambient temperature is too high.

2. Children’s body temperature regulation function is immature

Children's central nervous system regulation function is relatively poor, their body surface area is relatively large, and their skin sweat glands are underdeveloped, so their body temperature regulation function is unstable, and heat production and heat dissipation are prone to imbalance, so their body temperature is prone to fluctuate. The younger the age, the worse the ability to adjust. Especially for newborns, their skin fat is thin, their muscles are underdeveloped, and their motor ability is weak, so their body temperature regulation function is more unstable.

2. Clinical manifestations

When the ambient temperature is too high, or when the baby finishes feeding, strains, or cries, a light red rash will appear on the baby's skin. This rash will disappear soon after the baby's skin cools down. Heat rash often appears on the baby's face, neck, shoulders, elbows, groin, armpits and other sweaty areas. Heat rash is actually a mild inflammation of the sweat glands. At first, the skin turns red, and then needle-sized red papules or papulovesicles appear, densely packed in patches, some of which are purulent. Heat rash can cause severe itching and pain, and sometimes bursts of hot, burning pain, etc.

Treatment

If your child has a rash that is caused by a high ambient temperature, parents can do the following:

1. Undress your child and see if he or she is really too hot.

2. Give your child a good bath with warm water. There is no need to wipe the water off the child's body completely. The child's skin can be cooled down smoothly by the evaporation process of the water remaining on the skin.

3. Make sure your child wears pure cotton underwear, which is more breathable and easier to absorb sweat. The clothes you give your children must be appropriate. Don't think that the more clothes they wear, the better.

4. Pay attention to the ventilation of the baby's room and the temperature should not be too high.

5. If the child's heat rash does not subside after 12 hours of the above treatment, the child should be taken to the hospital for treatment.