Prickly heat mostly occurs in hot and humid environments in the summer. Babies with prickly heat can be treated by improving the environment and other general treatments, or by taking medication and taking preventive measures in the future.
1. General treatment: Generally speaking, prickly heat will disappear soon after the skin is cooled and dried. You should keep the area cool, take a bath with warm water every day and dry it naturally. If prickly heat is itchy, you can apply cold compresses to relieve the itch and pain.
2. Medication: topical medication can be used to cool, astringent and relieve itching, such as topical glycerine lotion; glucocorticosteroids can be used locally to promote the inflammation of red prickly heat, such as hydrocortisone cream, etc.; if the symptoms are serious and the extent of lesions is large, oral medication, such as loratadine, etc., is needed for the treatment.
3. Prevention: Open windows regularly, turn on the air conditioner to cool down the temperature, avoid sweating a lot, take baths regularly and change comfortable clothes, etc., which can help to prevent prickly heat from occurring.
In short, the baby prickly heat, according to the severity of its symptoms to choose the appropriate treatment, if the symptoms are more serious, need to go to the hospital in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor’s standardized medication.