What to do if your child has prickly heat

The solutions for children with prickly heat include good nursing care, external medication and oral medication. 1. Nursing care measures: Because the child’s skin is relatively delicate, when the weather is hot, it is very easy to get prickly heat in the folds of the skin, then you should change the child’s breathable clothing in a timely manner, often scrub the folds of the body area, to maintain a ventilated and cool environment. 2. Topical medication: When your child has prickly heat, try to keep the skin as dry as possible, and apply glycerite lotion to cool and relieve itching. If the heat rash is more serious, you can also use Denuded cream, which contains glucocorticoids, under the guidance of a doctor. 3. Oral medication: When a child’s prickly heat is not treated in time or is infected due to scratching, oral antibiotics can be taken under doctor’s supervision for anti-infective treatment, commonly used medications such as cefixime and amoxicillin for treatment. When the child body prickly heat, must take timely measures to alleviate, so as to avoid the later appear more serious situation, if necessary, need to go to the hospital, by the doctor to guide the treatment.