What to do if your child has prickly heat

Children with prickly heat may be cured by general treatment if the clinical symptoms are mild; if the symptoms are more serious, medication is needed. 1. General treatment: the skin should be cooled down, and keep the skin dry and clean, wear loose-fitting clothes, do not scratch too much with your hands, let the child eat a light diet, you can use ice packs on the rash parts of the cold compresses, to improve the itching, pain and other symptoms, to help the recovery, but need to pay attention to the time of cold compresses, to avoid causing frostbite. 2. Medication: If the general treatment effect is not satisfactory, need to carry out drug treatment, such as external use of glycerine lotion and other astringent, anti-itching treatment; itching is serious, can follow the doctor’s instructions oral antihistamine anti-itching treatment, such as chlortetracycline and so on. If the child is infected, the use of sensitive antibiotics under the guidance of the doctor anti-infection treatment, such as amoxicillin and so on. Children with prickly heat, parents should not give their children drugs, need to go to the regular hospital in a timely manner, the use of medication to follow the doctor’s instructions, to avoid causing serious adverse reactions.