How to stop the itching of prickly heat

The main ways to relieve prickly heat are applying external compresses, taking oral medications and paying attention to personal care, etc. The specific ones should be chosen according to the size and severity of prickly heat. 1. Mild: patients with localized small protrusions, slight redness, mild itching, concentrated in the neck or behind the ears, this only need to pay attention to frequent cleaning of bed sheets and bedding, applying moisturizing creams, prickly heat powder can be, without special treatment. 2. Moderate: the patient prickly heat range is larger, visible neck down to the front of the chest extends to a large area of redness and swelling of small protuberances, and itching is obvious, you can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply glycerine lotion to stop itching, pay attention to the place of skin cleaning, once the sweat to clean up. 3. Severe: patients can be seen on the upper half of the body a large area of prickly heat, obvious redness and swelling with itching, part of the existence of ulceration and so on, if necessary, the need for oral amoxicillin, roxithromycin and other anti-infective, but also can be prescribed to take loratadine and other itch, intimate apparel can be selected from pure cotton breathable material. The application of drugs need to strictly follow the doctor’s instructions, if there is discomfort can be discontinued to consult the doctor. Under the guidance of the doctor to standardize the treatment.