It is recommended to pay attention to clean and dry skin, and to use topical medication or systemic treatment to control symptoms and promote recovery.
1. General treatment: prickly heat in babies is mostly due to inflammatory skin disease in hot environment or in summer, it is recommended to pay attention to the ventilation of the home environment, and give the child to wear loose and breathable clothes, and bathing to keep the skin clean and dry.
2. Topical medication: When prickly heat lesions appear, glycerite lotion can be applied to achieve cooling, anti-itching and astringent effects. If pustular prickly heat appears on the baby’s body, i.e., there are pustules at the top of the pimples, antibiotic ointment such as erythromycin and mupirocin ointment can be applied externally.
3. Systemic treatment: If prickly heat causes obvious itching in babies, oral antihistamines such as loratadine and cetirizine hydrochloride can be used for treatment.
The baby prickly heat, it is recommended to hospital specialist consultation, in the doctor’s guidance a reasonable use of medication.