Treatments for prickly heat include keeping the environment cool, applying glycerite lotion, glucocorticoid cream, antibiotic ointment or oral antihistamine.
1. Keep the environment cool: prickly heat is related to high temperature and humid air. Keeping the environment cool, air circulation and local skin clean and dry can reduce the occurrence of prickly heat.
2. Local topical medication: you can use glycerite lotion externally, which plays the role of astringent, anti-itch, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. If the inflammation is heavy, you can use glucocorticoid cream, such as hydrocortisone butyrate cream, combined with bacterial infections, you can use antibiotic ointment, such as mupirocin ointment, erythromycin ointment and so on.
3. Oral antihistamines: If there are more prickly heat and obvious itching, you can take antihistamines such as loratadine and levocetirizine orally to relieve the itching symptoms.
The above mentioned drugs need to be used under the guidance of a doctor, prickly heat can go to the hospital dermatology department.