What should I do if my baby has prickly heat?

Prickly heat is a common name for what is clinically known as corn rash. Babies with corn rash can be relieved by keeping the skin dry, applying topical medications (e.g. prickly heat powder, etc.), and taking oral medications (e.g. cetirizine hydrochloride, etc.). 1. Keep the skin dry: baby corn rash is mostly caused by the heat of the environment, therefore, the baby should be placed in a place with suitable temperature, and can be appropriate use of electric fans, air-conditioning, to reduce the room temperature, and pay attention to keep the skin dry, choose loose, soft clothing. 2. Topical application of drugs: On this basis, you can also follow the doctor’s advice to use prickly heat powder, to cool and stop itching, if the itching is serious, you can use glycerine lotion, to reduce the symptoms. 3. Oral medication: when itching is obvious, you can follow the doctor’s instructions oral cetirizine hydrochloride drops, loratadine syrup, etc., to alleviate the symptoms, if the combination of bacterial infections, you can take amoxicillin, cefixime, etc., to carry out anti-infective treatment. Corns have a certain self-limiting, the vast majority of babies can be in the scientific care a few days, back to normal, but if the symptoms are serious, the need to go to a regular medical institution immediately, follow the instructions of the specialist standardized treatment, to avoid blind self-medication, so as not to cause adverse consequences.