Heat rash is the most common acute inflammation of the skin in summer. Prickly heat is caused by blocked sweat pores and occurs mostly on the neck, back of the chest, elbow fossa, popliteal fossa, and in children, on the head and forehead. The skin is red at first, and then red papules or papules of the size of a pinhead appear in dense patches, some of which are purulent. Prickly heat itch, pain, and sometimes a hot burning pain.
Treatment: Do not scratch prickly heat with your hands or wash it with strong alkaline soap. Do not use hot water to scald, rinse and dry with warm water, and sprinkle with prickly heat powder. Patients with infection after scratching should apply antibiotic ointment.
Prevention: pay attention to skin cleanliness, bathe regularly, keep the skin dry, and sprinkle prickly heat powder after cleaning to prevent prickly heat.
What should I do if my child has heat rash?
If the heat rash is on the head and neck, cut the child’s hair short, or change the hair style, comb the hair backwards, not on the forehead, or shave the hair if it is a baby. If the heat rash grows on the body, you should bathe your child often, change clothes regularly, and keep the skin clean and dry. It is best to use warm water for bathing and do not use soap for bathing to reduce irritation. If you must use it, choose a soap with little alkalinity. If you add a few drops of flower water in the bath water will have a better effect. Bathing process to avoid forceful rubbing there
In terms of diet, you should drink more cool drinks, such as mung bean soup, and eat more vegetables and fruits, which can not only relieve the summer heat, but also replenish water and vitamins and increase the coolness to reduce symptoms such as prickly itch. As long as you do a good job of home care, your child’s heat rash will soon be fine.
Second, salt water for heat rash
In summer, many people will grow prickly heat because of the sweltering weather, you can add some salt to half a bucket of water after bathing, then gauze with some salt pat the place of prickly heat, and finally wash it with warm water once a day, and it will soon be cured.
Three, heat rash how to deal with
Although prickly heat is very common, it often makes children irritable due to discomfort, itching and pain. If prickly heat develops further, it can become an abscess, and toxins from septic bacteria can enter the bloodstream and cause septicemia or septicemia.
With prickly heat, the following measures can be taken.
1. Pay attention to cool and ventilated rooms.
2. Feed your child more water and turn over regularly.
3, keep the skin clean and dry, do not use alkaline soap.
4, wear fabric clothes, clothes should be wide.
5.Puff prickly heat powder. The prickly heat powder is mainly talcum powder, zinc oxide or add appropriate cooling and anti-itching agent.
6, light prickly heat can be 35%-70% alcohol gently rubbed, oil cream can obstruct the evaporation of sweat, can not be applied; heavy prickly heat poisoning (abscess) should be used to control the infection with antibiotics to prevent the development of sepsis.
Four, watermelon rind can cure prickly heat
In fact, the white part has the effect of curing prickly heat. If a child has prickly heat, the white part of the watermelon can be used to lightly rub the affected area, which is very effective. Repeatedly rub two or three times, you can stop the itching, skin clean and smooth. In our pharmacological masterpiece “Materia Medica” also recorded: watermelon can sedate, quench thirst, go to the summer heat.
Five, prickly heat dietary therapy 6 methods
In summer, children are prone to prickly heat, parents should not be anxious, on the one hand, to keep the child’s skin clean, after the bath coated with some prickly heat powder, on the other hand, can use dietary therapy to prevent.
1, 60 grams of winter melon, add water decoction soup to drink, a daily dose, even 7-8 days.
2. Mung bean, fresh lotus leaf, add water and decoction.
3. 60 grams of leek root and decoction of water.
4. Decoction of winter melon, kelp and mung bean with sugar for 7-10 days
5. 20g each of amaranth and loofah in decoction.
6. Wash 5-6 plums, decoct for 30 minutes, then put 6 grams of honeysuckle into the same decoction for 20 minutes, remove the juice and dregs and add sugar, drink after cooling.
Six, the treatment of heat rash trick collection
1. Wash the cucumber, slice it and rub it on the affected area several times a day.
2, first wash the affected area with warm water, and then take mung bean powder, talcum powder, and equal parts, and even, pounce on the prickly heat, several times a day.
3.Wolfberry trees and leaves, wash and add water to decoct for 1 hour, then wash the affected area after it is warm. Wash it twice a day.
4. 20 grams each of bitter ginseng and rhubarb, 10 grams each of Huang Lian, ice chips and Xiong Huang, and 300 ml of 75% alcohol. Soak the medicine in alcohol, 3 days after taking the liquid to rub the affected area, several times a day.
5.Five fresh fig leaves, add 750 ml of water, decoct for 20 minutes, leave it to warm (37-40 degrees) and then apply the affected area with a towel dipped in the medicinal water. After cooling, add an appropriate amount of hot water and use for bathing. Usually used for 2-3 days in a row.
6. 50 grams of fresh amaranth. Wash and add 250 ml of water, boil for 20 minutes and remove the residue. Take a small amount of amaranth water each time and dip a clean gauze into it to rub the affected area 5-6 times a day for 2-3 days.
7. 12 grams of each of Caulophyllum, alum and horsetail. Add 200 ml of water and boil for 20 minutes. Leave it to warm and then wash the affected area for 5-10 minutes each time, once a day in the morning and once in the evening.
8.2 grams of ice chips and 10 grams of peppermint oil, put into 200 ml of 75% alcohol, shake well and use to rub the affected area.
9.2％ boric acid water in appropriate amount. Put multiple layers of gauze soaked in the water on the affected area, and re-moisten the gauze every 10-15 minutes. Once a day, once in the morning and once in the evening.
Seven, the causes, symptoms and precautions of prickly heat
In summer, when the temperature is high and the humidity is high, if the sweat glands secrete too much and the sweat evaporates poorly, the sweat penetrates into the surrounding tissues of the pores and stimulates the skin to develop rashes, which is the main reason for prickly heat. The reason why babies and children are prone to prickly heat is because the child’s skin is delicate and the sweat glands are less developed and less able to mediate body temperature through sweat evaporation than adults, so sweat is not easy to drain and evaporate.
There are three types of heat rash: white heat rash, red heat rash and pus heat rash. White heat rash is a superficial blister the size of a pinpoint, and is likely to occur in patients who have been bedridden for a long time; red heat rash starts with red skin, followed by dense pinpoint papules or papules containing clear fluid and surrounded by a mild red halo, mostly in the elbow fossa, neck, trunk and pediatric face; pus heat rash, also called prickly heat poisoning, is caused by secondary infection after the growth of prickly heat rash, and mostly occurs in the head of children.
Children with prickly heat should be actively cared for, the main care methods are.
1, pay attention to indoor air circulation, so that the room temperature is cool;
2, diligent change of clothing: clothing should be wide, dry, avoid wearing chemical fiber underwear;
3, hot to ensure that the daily bath with warm water 2 to 3 times to keep the skin clean, after the bath rubbed with prickly heat powder. Do not use cold water to bathe your child after coming back from outside, because when cold water is poured, the original open sweat holes will suddenly be closed and sweat will be retained, which will easily cause prickly heat or aggravate the condition;
4, should give children to drink more mung bean soup, honeysuckle water, avoid eating spicy stimulating food and strong tea, coffee. If your child has prickly heat, do not apply ointment or oil preparations;
5. Do not squeeze or scratch the affected area with your hands;
6.Avoid strong sunlight;
7, once a large area of prickly heat poisoning, should promptly go to the hospital for treatment.
The cause of prickly heat: prickly heat is a mild inflammation of the sweat gland openings on the skin. The heat of summer, sweating, so that the epidermis soaked soft, coupled with the accumulation of dirt on the skin, so that the sweat gland mouth blockage, and prickly heat occurs. Prickly heat infection then forms prickly heat poisoning.
Symptoms: Prickly heat mostly occurs on the scalp, forehead, neck, chest, armpits, and thigh roots. The skin first appears as a red spot, followed by a pinpoint rash or blisters. It feels prickly and itchy. Prickly heat poisoning is initially the size of millet and gradually forms pustules the size of corn kernels or apricot kernels. The pustules slowly become softer and finally break down and flow yellowish pus.
Care: Pay attention to indoor ventilation and cooling in summer. Children’s clothes should be wide, soft and absorbent. Bathe often. Wash with warm water first, then put on prickly heat powder or rub prickly heat potion.
If prickly heat poisoning occurs repeatedly, you can take herbal medicines to clear heat and detoxify the body.
Prickly heat: Prickly heat is the most common acute inflammation of the skin in summer. Prickly heat is caused by the blockage of sweat holes and occurs mostly in the neck, chest and back, elbow fossa, popliteal fossa, etc. Children can occur in the head and forehead. The skin is red at first, and then red papules or papules the size of a pinhead appear, in dense patches, some of which are purulent. Prickly heat itch, pain, and sometimes a hot burning pain.
Treatment: Do not scratch prickly heat with your hands or wash it with strong alkaline soap. Do not use hot water, but rinse and dry with warm water and sprinkle with prickly heat powder. Patients with infection after scratching should apply antibiotic ointment.
Prevention: usually pay attention to skin cleanliness, bathe regularly, keep the skin dry, and puff prickly heat powder after cleaning can prevent prickly heat from occurring.
Eight, massage treatment for children with prickly heat
1. Push the lung meridian, heart meridian, liver meridian, Tianhe water and six internal organs with the thumb 100 times each.
2. Use your thumb to press the Blood Sea, Yinlingquan and Sanyinjiao for 2 minutes each.
3. Use your fingers to pinch and rub the sweating points, Shen Men, Daling, Laogong, and Heart points for 2 minutes each.
4. Rub Quchi and Hegu with the thumb for 2 minutes each.
The above methods are repeated two times each time, twice a day.
Nine, the treatment of prickly heat test prescription five
1, with toothpaste rubbing, can make the rash recede, through the body refreshing and comfortable.
2, the fresh cucumber cut into slices, gently coated with the affected area, 3 to 4 times a day, a few days will be effective.
3, the first born prickly heat, take fresh amaranth 1500 grams, wash and boil with water for 10 to 15 minutes, let it warm and then
The water washes the affected area, and then puffs the prickly heat powder, avoid cold washing or hot.
4, prickly heat at the beginning, you can properly rub skin easy ointment, but if the formation of prickly heat poison can no longer be used.
5. 18 grams of talcum powder and 3 grams of licorice powder are used to synthesize “six one san”. Put it on the prickly heat 2-3 times a day.
Prickly heat is similar to itchy, prickly heat is very sensitive to vitamin C in antihistamine. Heat and itch prickly heat, in the hot summer, many people to grow prickly heat. At the beginning, the skin is covered with small red rashes with clear boundaries, and later gradually fuse into a piece, dense; some prickly heat also has small white spots, squeeze broken on the water. Prickly heat is not a big problem, but the skin burns and itches like pins and needles, making it very uncomfortable and affecting work and sleep, so it still needs to be treated. Generally take both internal and external treatment method, the effect is better.
Take 100 grams each of fresh rhizome and yellow chrysanthemum, add 2000 ml of water, boil for 15 minutes, put in 30 grams of peppermint and decoct for another half minute. Adults take 60 ml each time, children reduce, take 3 times a day.
At the same time, wash the prickly heat with the medicinal water several times a day. Generally, the heat rash will subside after three to five days.
Buy Six One San (a mixture of six parts of talc and one part of licorice) from a traditional Chinese medicine store and take 15 grams with boiling water daily and sprinkle some on the prickly heat, which also has some effect. Take 10 grams of rhubarb and 3 grams of ice chips and add 100 ml of 75% alcohol, soak for two or three days, and use it to apply prickly heat, both to cool and to stop itching; if you can take the above Chinese decoction at the same time, the effect is better.
In addition, folk people also fresh cucumber slices, gently rub prickly heat, 3 to 4 times a day, also have some effect.
X. Prevention of prickly heat
In addition to avoiding heat, bathing frequently and sprinkling some prickly heat powder, you can also use the following prescription: 10 grams each of fresh patchouli, fresh pelargonium, fresh lotus leaf, honeysuckle, wild chrysanthemum and mung bean coat, add water to a decoction and drink it as tea.
Ten drops of water to cure prickly heat: ten drops of water to cure itchy children is very effective. The method is as follows; first scrub the sweat and secreted oil of the affected skin with warm water, then, squeeze out several drops of ten drops of water and apply it to the affected area and let it dry naturally. The skin at the application of the drug slightly burning kill pain, a few minutes later is not so much, not so painful. Apply it two or three times a day. Two or three days will reduce inflammation, swelling and itching. More serious cases can extend the medication. The skin of infants and children is delicate and should not be rubbed directly, but can be diluted with warm water at a ratio of 1:10 before use. The number of times per day can be increased or decreased depending on the amount of heat rash. To prevent infection by scratching with fingernails, it is advisable to rub with cotton swabs. The method is to add an appropriate amount of ten drops of water (such as half a small bottle) to warm water each time you bathe the child, but be careful to use only water to bathe, do not use soap, bath lotion, etc., in order to maintain the power of the medicine.
Frosted mulberry leaves can cure prickly heat: use 200 grams of dried mulberry leaves, 200 grams of mung beans and 50 grams of stovepipe to make a powder. Every night after bathing with mulberry leaves boiled water, apply a layer of homemade “prickly heat powder”. I didn’t think it would work, but after only four or five nights, several children in the building were cured. According to my mother, the frosty mulberry leaves must be picked after the frost or frost hit the ground, dried, and hung in a cloth bag in a ventilated place for backup. Fresh mulberry leaves can also be, but the effect is slightly worse. Zhao Lishan
One method to cure prickly heat: The summer was particularly hot, and many people had prickly heat, and my children and loved ones also had prickly heat. A friend introduced a method that works very well. This method is: wash the prickly heat area with water, and rub “Yumeijin Children’s Cream” (produced by Tianjin Daily Chemical Factory) on the prickly heat area at least two times a day. It can be cured in two or three days and does not recur. 100027 Beijing Chaoyang District, Xin Yuan Street 11-4-203, Qi Yanxin
Huo Xiang Zheng Qi capsule to eliminate prickly heat: A few days ago, my little grandson suddenly got a lot of prickly heat all over his body, which was painful and unbearable. We gave him Huo Xiang Zheng Qi capsules and the heat rash disappeared the next day and he has not had any heat rash since. 100840 Beijing Box 840
Wang Zongxiu
Raw cucumber juice for prickly heat: In summer, the body sweats, sometimes causing inflammation of the sweat glands and a lot of small red rashes on the surface of the skin, which is very itchy, also known as prickly heat. Use raw cucumber juice or cucumber slices to rub on the affected area respectively, and it will heal in two or three times. This method is especially suitable for small children.
Eleven, summer heat rash prevention
In the hot summer, both adults and children are sweating profusely, and sweating can distribute the potential amount to maintain a constant body temperature.
This is the regulatory protection mechanism of the political party. Sweat contains inorganic salts such as sodium chloride, and the salt left behind after sweat evaporation can prick the skin and inflame the tissue around the sweat and cause heat rash.
Children have delicate skin and prickly heat appears. Prickly heat starts as a pinpoint-sized red papule that protrudes from the skin, round or pointed, sometimes with a child or cry at the top; larger children will scratch the itch with their hands, and the skin is often scratched and secondary skin infections occur, most forming boils or pain.
The key to preventing and treating prickly heat is to do a good job at home, the following aspects can be referred to.
1, summer should be day to lower the room temperature, keep ventilation, ice. Wet and stuffy potential is not good for prickly heat to subside, should not let the child in the hot sun for dramatic activities.
2, summer infants and children should wear a wide cotton underwear, conducive to absorb sweat. Usually try not to let the child cry loudly and get covered in sweat. Often infants should be turned over regularly, bed mat straw mat.
3, summer seeking should be diligent bath. Bathing water temperature should not be too hot or not ice. Some parents believe that bathing with more potential water can stop the itch, the child feels comfortable. Shue indeed then the child is a comfortable feeling, but the higher water temperature is more irritating to the skin, and skin discomfort and crying after the bath is over. You should use baby bath soap, which is less irritating to the skin. Bathing
Immediately after the bath, wipe the skin and grab the prickly heat powder, which is beneficial to the dissipation of prickly heat. According to the temperature and sweating situation, decide the number of baths per day, after washing to change into clean underwear.
4, usually cut nails, prevent scratching, to avoid secondary skin infections. Hair can be cut shorter in summer. Let the child eat some cool feeds daily, such as honeysuckle dew and mung bean soup, to relieve the heat.
Bitter melon juice for prickly heat: In the hot summer, children are prone to prickly heat, which can be unbearably itchy or infected with pus, often making children restless. There is a very effective way to treat heat rash: external application of bitter melon juice. Use a fresh bitter gourd, wash and remove the kernel, cut the flesh of the gourd into pieces, grasp the sweat with your hands, apply the bitter gourd sweat directly on the prickly heat, and apply each of them once a day in the morning and evening.
Prickly heat new treatment method
1, 10 grams of pepper into the enamel jar, punch 200 ml of boiling water, cook on a low fire for 5-6 minutes. After boiling, when it is slightly cool and not hot, use a cotton pad dipped in pepper water to lightly rub the affected area. 12 hours later, the pus tip of prickly heat can generally shrink and dry up. In order to consolidate the effect, you can warm the remaining pepper water on a small fire and scrub the affected area again, after this treatment, the prickly heat can all disappear.
2, with cucumber cut surface, or with smashed loofah coated prickly heat, 2 to 3 times a day, a few days after the visible effect.
3, heavier prickly heat, can be taken licorice research powder 1, talcum powder 2, puff prickly heat.
4, can also be taken to stink sycamore 100 grams, horsetail 200 grams of decoction water external washing.
The raw materials of prickly heat powder include talc, boric acid, spices, sublimated sulfur, menthol, zinc oxide, thymol and salicylic acid. Its function is to relieve pain and itching, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic and inhibit the regeneration of prickly heat. The main ingredients of prickly heat water are menthol, muscimol, benzoic acid, neosporin and alcohol. It is applied on the skin with prickly heat in summer, which has the functions of antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, cooling and itching, removing dirt and unblocking sweat glands. Therefore, prickly heat water is more effective than prickly heat powder in relieving itchiness. According to the ratio of drugs contained in prickly heat powder and prickly heat water, there are two types of prickly heat powder for adults and prickly heat water for children. Generally, children over 11 years of age can use the adult one, while children under 10 years of age should use the child one. Babies should not use prickly heat powder, but can use talcum powder instead.
The main ingredients of talcum powder are talcum powder, boric acid, magnesium carbonate and spices. Talcum powder is soft, slippery to the touch, chemically stable, not only does not have any stimulating effect on the skin, but also can absorb sweat and smooth the skin. The boric acid in it is white crystal, which has the effect of sterilization and can soften the skin. In addition to absorbing sweat and smoothing the skin, the powder can also reduce the breeding of prickly heat. After the summer bath or haircut, puffed on the body or head, can give people a comfortable and fragrant feeling, the powder also contains different boric acid composition, divided into two kinds of adults and children with.
Twelve, summer heat talk prickly heat
In the summer time, many people have prickly heat. There are three main types of heat rash: white heat rash, red heat rash and pus heat rash.
White prickly heat (crystal-shaped corn rash), common in a large number of sweating, long-term bedridden, overly weak patients. They occur on the neck and trunk and are small, superficial, pinhead-like blisters with very thin, shiny walls, no redness, and easily broken by light rubbing. Red prickly rash (red corn rash), which occurs on the back of the hands, elbow sockets, neck, chest, back, abdomen, under the breasts of women, and on the head, face, and buttocks of children, is a round, sharp, pinhead-sized, dense papule with a mild red halo. They often appear in batches and are self-induced with a mild burning and itching sensation. The rash is mildly flaky when it subsides.
Pustular prickly heat (pustular corn rash), often occurs in the crease areas, such as the flexural side of the limbs and the pubic area, common in children’s head and neck.
The prevention and treatment of prickly heat should be avoided in hot environments, pay attention to strengthen indoor ventilation and heat dissipation measures, clothing should be wide to facilitate the evaporation of sweat.
The clothing should be wide to facilitate the evaporation of sweat. Change sweaty clothes in a timely manner. Avoid scratching to prevent secondary infection. Avoid scratching to prevent secondary infection. Keep your skin clean and dry.
Keep the skin clean and dry, often wipe sweat with a towel, or wash with warm water and sprinkle with prickly heat powder. There are many ways to prevent prickly heat.
The three bean soup is a soup made of mung beans, red beans and black beans with water. This soup has the effect of clearing heat and detoxifying the body, and is suitable for long-term use.
It is suitable for long-term use. To make the soup, add 10 grams of mung beans, red beans and black beans, add 600 ml of water and boil it to 300 ml over low heat.
Pound the bitter melon leaves and extract the juice: rub it on the affected area, and the prickly heat will be dispersed the next day. Choose a ripe bitter gourd, take out part of the flesh and fill it with
The borax dissolves and water flows out, so use this water to rub the affected area.
Peach leaf decoction bath is effective: the specific method is to dry the peach leaf in a bag, when using the peach leaf 50 grams soaked in hot water
Bathing children can prevent prickly heat from occurring. If the heat rash is serious, you can boil the juice of peach leaves and mix it into the bath water.
When boiling the juice of peach leaves, the ratio is: 100 grams of peach leaves, 1000 ml of water, and boil it until only half of the water is left.
XIII. What medicine is used to treat heat rash? How to prevent it?
In the summer heat, men, women and children may get prickly heat and itchy and irritable. Prickly heat is a skin disease that easily occurs in the folds of sweaty areas, mainly due to the increase in external temperature and humidity, the sweat secreted by the sweat gland mouth can not be discharged smoothly and small blisters or papules, surrounded by a red halo, the rash is dense but not fused. The rash is dense but not fused. In Chinese medicine, it is called “acne” or “prickly heat”, as it is written in Suwen – The Treatise on Anger and the Sky: “When sweating and seeing dampness, acne is born. This means that this disease is caused by summer dampness, fumigation of the skin, closure of the hair orifice, and poor sweating.
Therefore, in the summer, you should do a good job of cooling down the summer heat, often bathing, and then use prickly heat powder externally to keep the skin dry and clean. You can also use mung beans to boil water for tea or mint to boil water with sugar for tea, both to prevent heatstroke and cure the disease. For those who have the disease, you cannot wash with hot water or use other stimulants to wash and coat. In addition to using amaranth water for external washing or cold wet compresses, you can also use six one san (talc 60 grams, licorice 10 grams) or talc powder mixed with a small amount of ice chips for external puffing, which is also available.