What to do if your child has prickly heat

Children with prickly heat need to take general measures, medication and other ways to improve the situation. 1. General measures: Parents should dress their children in loose, breathable, cotton clothes to keep the lesions dry and cool, and keep the room ventilated and stay in an air-conditioned, fan-like environment. 2. Medication: Parents need to give their children external prickly heat powder or peppermint and glycerite lotion under doctor’s guidance to cool and relieve itching, and if it is pus prickly heat, it is necessary to follow the doctor’s advice to use ichthyol and glycerite lotion externally. In case of red prickly heat, topical glucocorticoid creams or ointments such as hydrocortisone and triamcinolone should be used as prescribed by the doctor, which can help the inflammation subside and also reduce the itching. For children with severe itching, oral antihistamines such as cetirizine and loratadine should be prescribed. If prickly heat infection is serious, children need to take oral antibiotics such as amoxicillin and azithromycin. When your child has prickly heat, you need to strengthen the management of daily life, and if necessary, you need to go to the hospital and cooperate with the doctor for active treatment.