Can children with urticaria take a bath?

Children are more likely to get urticaria than other people. Urticaria is a more serious skin infection. Red rashes and itching will appear on the patient's skin surface, accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, chest tightness, palpitations and even difficulty breathing. There are still benefits to the body of children who have urticaria when taking a bath, such as maintaining the skin's sensitivity and making the child feel happy. However, it should be noted that children with severe urticaria should not take a bath.

Can children with urticaria take a bath?

1. When you can take a bath

Children's urticaria is relatively mild. The urticaria on the body only causes red rashes and itching, but the surface skin is not scratched or broken. Children can take a bath if they do not have nausea, vomiting, headache, swelling of the head, abdominal pain, diarrhea, chest tightness, pale complexion, accelerated heart rate, weak pulse, low blood pressure, shortness of breath and other systemic symptoms.

2. Situations where you cannot take a bath

Children with urticaria have more serious symptoms. In addition to rashes and itching, the surface of the skin may also be accompanied by ulcers. In addition, if the above-mentioned systemic discomfort occurs, or if the patient has a rare aquagenic urticaria caused by allergy to water, they should not take a bath easily.

There are three major benefits to taking a proper bath for children with urticaria:

1. Keep your skin clean

Babies are active and prone to sweating. Usually, babies with minor urticaria will still play happily and sweat from time to time even during the illness. Therefore, if the baby has urticaria and can take a bath, parents need to bathe the baby appropriately to keep the skin of the urticaria-affected area clean and hygienic, and avoid the salt contained in the sweat from irritating the affected area.

2. Make you feel comfortable

When a child suffers from urticaria, multiple red rashes will appear on the body, and these rashes can cause severe itching. Many child patients will become unhappy due to the itching. By taking a bath, the capillaries in the affected skin can be properly stimulated, the blood circulation can be accelerated, the itching can be appropriately relieved, and the child will naturally be in a better mood.

3. Promote recovery from illness

If a child is not bathed for a long time during the period of urticaria, dust, sweat, oil and other substances may easily adhere to the body, causing the skin pores to be blocked, the affected skin cannot breathe, and other skin problems may easily occur, resulting in the disease being difficult to cure. Therefore, bathing children appropriately is, to some extent, a way to promote recovery.