How to deal with prickly heat in a two-year-old baby?

The sweat glands of infants and young children are not fully developed, so when it is hot in the summer, they will sweat a lot. The perspiration will also block the openings of the sweat ducts, causing the sweat glands to rupture. This will cause the baby to develop heat rash, which is what people call prickly heat. So what should you do if your baby has prickly heat? How should we take care of it in normal times?

How to take care of babies with prickly heat and heat rash?

1. Use soap and shower gel moderately when bathing your baby, and avoid using anything too irritating.

2. Prepare high-quality sweat-wicking clothes and breathable cotton clothes for your baby.

3. After coming back from playing outside, you should take a shower with clean water immediately.

4. Use a wet towel dipped in cold water to cool down the sweating baby's body. Especially placing a wet towel on the area where prickly heat rash occurs can help the baby reduce itching and pain.

5. Babies with prickly heat should not use moisturizing creams or lotions, as this will aggravate the blockage of sweat glands.

6. When washing your baby’s clothes, be careful not to leave any detergent residue on the clothes.

7. If you want to help your baby relieve itching, you can use calamine lotion

8. You can turn on the air conditioner or electric fan at home to allow air circulation, and place your baby in a room with good air circulation and ventilation.

9. Give your baby a bath immediately after he sweats. You can put some baking soda in the baby's bath water.

10. To treat baby's prickly heat rash, you can use hormone ointments, steroids, etc., which have a better antipruritic effect and can be used for various skin inflammations. Antibiotic ointment may also be used.

Nursing Attention

If your baby's heat rash has not healed and he still has a fever, he needs to go to the hospital and ask the doctor for guidance on medication, because at this time the baby's heat rash may be similar to infectious skin diseases such as folliculitis and Candida infection. So if the situation is serious, the doctor will use prescription topical medication to relieve the baby's itching and pain.

The above content is some care methods compiled by the editor about when the baby has prickly heat. I hope that parents and friends will pay more attention to caring for their babies in normal times. The body's resistance is relatively poor now, and it is easy to be infected with certain diseases. If some diseases occur, I must take the child to the hospital for examination and treatment at this stage. Don't give the child medicine at will.