Prickly heat is a common summer skin disease in children, after the growth of prickly heat, due to itching, stinging, burning often make children irritable, in case of heat symptoms are aggravated, affecting children’s sleep, eating, how to prevent and control children’s prickly heat in summer? The first thing we need to understand is how prickly heat is formed: in the hot summer, the body will be through sweating and sweat evaporation to disperse heat and reduce the body temperature, if too much sweat is secreted, or the humidity of the air is too large and the environment is not ventilated, sweat can not evaporate in time and remain on the surface of the skin, it will make the cuticle of the skin impregnated, softened, blocking the sweat hole, sweat holes are blocked, sweat glands still continue to The sweat glands continue to secrete sweat after the sweat holes are blocked, and since they cannot be discharged, the sweat swells the sweat ducts and flows into the surrounding tissues, causing local inflammation and redness, which is called prickly heat. Prickly heat occurs on the head, face, neck, chest and back of children, and is particularly prevalent in obese infants. If combined with infection, small yellow pustules the size of a pinhead form at the top of the heat rash, which is known as “pus rash”. After understanding how heat rash is formed, we can prevent heat rash from the following aspects: 1, pay attention to indoor ventilation, keep the environment cool, you can use air conditioning to reduce sweating and sweat can quickly evaporate after sweating. 2, summer to cut the child’s hair short, shaved if necessary, clothes should be clean, soft, loose, preferably with strong absorbent cotton fabrics, to be changed regularly. 3, diligent warm bath, bath not only can clean the skin, but also conducive to sweat discharge, after the bath to immediately wipe dry, wipe dry after puffing prickly heat powder, prickly heat powder can absorb sweat, keep the skin dry. It is not advisable to rinse with cold water immediately after a hot day sweat, because the sudden cold stimulation can make the sweat gland hole contraction, sweat can not be discharged, but prone to prickly heat. 4, small babies pay attention to turn over, do not hold in the arms for a long time, because it is easy to make the child hot sweat, and sweat is not easy to evaporate and grow prickly heat. 5, has grown prickly heat of the child, pay attention not to scratch, bath avoid using alkaline soap, you can use containing mint, ice chips of prickly heat powder, has a cooling, anti-itch effect, in the bath water to add flower lotion, prickly heat also has a certain preventive effect. 6, long pus prickly heat, should be selected according to the condition of the appropriate antibacterial drugs, local can be used Huang Lian puff powder.