What to do if your baby gets prickly heat

The hot summer is a good time to travel, but the high temperature, mosquito bites, and scorching sun always make people stay away. One of the most annoying things is prickly heat. Adults who get prickly heat can scratch it themselves or apply medicine, and at worst they can bear it. However, once the baby gets prickly heat, mothers will become busy. The baby cannot express himself and can only cry non-stop, but mothers are helpless and can only watch with heartache.

So what are the different types of situations in which babies get prickly heat? What methods can be taken to prevent babies from getting prickly heat? Once the baby gets prickly heat, what simple and effective measures can mothers take? Can medication be used? Every mother asks these questions anxiously in the summer. Let me introduce it to you below.

1. If prickly heat occurs on the head and neck, the child's hair should be cut short in the hot summer, or the hair should be combed back as much as possible and not left on the forehead. If it is a baby, it is better to shave the hair.

2. Take a bath with warm water. Adding a few drops of floral water will have a better effect. Rinse and dry your body, then sprinkle some powder on it to relieve itching. When bathing, avoid rubbing the areas with prickly heat to prevent skin abrasions and infection.

3. Do not use soap when taking a bath to reduce irritation. If you must use it, choose a soap with less alkalinity.

4. Mild prickly heat can be gently rubbed with low-concentration medical alcohol. 25%-50% alcohol is easy to reduce fever physically (especially for patients with high fever, in addition to drug treatment, the simplest, most effective and safe cooling method is the physical cooling method of rubbing bath with 25%-50% alcohol). When using alcohol to scrub the patient's skin, it can not only stimulate the dilation of the skin blood vessels of patients with high fever and increase the skin's heat dissipation capacity; but also because of its volatility, it can absorb and take away a large amount of heat, thereby lowering body temperature and relieving symptoms. However, medical alcohol must be purchased from medical institutions, and industrial alcohol must not be misused.

Through the introduction of the above content, we can understand that babies' prickly heat can be divided into several types: on the head, on the neck and on the body, and each has different simple treatment methods. Mothers can effectively prevent their babies from getting prickly heat by learning these methods, and they don’t have to worry about their babies crying all the time. But don't panic if you don't notice it. After all, there are some ways to deal with prickly heat.