What if your child’s skin itches everywhere in summer? Consider contact dermatitis, insect bite dermatitis, prickly heat and other factors, and choose the appropriate general treatment or medication according to the specific cause of the disease.
1. Contact dermatitis: the child’s skin comes into contact with allergic or irritating substances, such as new clothes, laundry detergent, shower gel, etc., and inflammation occurs at the site of contact, causing itching. This situation should actively search for the causative agent, change comfortable clothing; if there is obvious itching, can be used externally to relieve glycerine lotion, serious cases can be treated with oral antihistamine drugs such as loratadine.
2. Insect bite dermatitis: mosquitoes are more active in summer, and allergic reactions can occur after being bitten by mosquitoes, manifesting as redness, swelling, erythema and blisters at the place of being bitten. You can use topical calcium-modulated phosphatase inhibitors, such as pimecrolimus cream, etc., can be combined with oral antihistamine drugs such as loratadine treatment.
3. Prickly heat: often occurs in hot and humid environment, mainly manifested as small blisters, papules or mounds of herpes. It is recommended to keep the skin cool, often open the window gout, appropriate open air conditioning cooling, try to wear looser clothes; often bathing, after bathing in the local use of glycerite lotion cool itch.
In short, children with itchy skin in summer, should be timely to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.