Most of the summer heat prickly heat is triggered by the blockage of sweat ducts caused by the hot weather, and can be treated with general treatment, physical therapy, medication, such as topical glycerine lotion, oral chlorpheniramine tablets, loratadine tablets, etc., there is no such thing as the best method.
1. General treatment: patients with prickly heat, should pay attention to keep the skin dry, indoor temperature is too high can be through the fan or air conditioning to help cool down, keep cool, and should pay attention to the bathing temperature should not be too high, the use of lukewarm water for bathing, and timely replacement of clean cotton clothes, in order to avoid the occurrence of infection.
2. Physical therapy: You can use towels wrapped in ice packs to apply cold compresses to the parts of prickly heat, which can help the lesions to stop itching and soothe the skin.
3. Medication: If the above methods cannot relieve the itching, and the itching is severe, you should follow the doctor’s instructions to use glycerine lotion to smear the lesions, or take antihistamines such as loratadine tablets and chlorpheniramine maleate tablets to stop the itching.
If the symptoms are not relieved, the patient should go to the hospital for treatment as prescribed by the doctor, and it is not recommended to use any medication on your own, which may cause adverse reactions.