Miliaria can occur in both children and adults, but babies, due to imperfect heat transfer, suffer from it more often. This is a harmless phenomenon, easily treatable, and sometimes it goes almost unnoticed. If you take action in time, prickly heat passes without a trace.
Instructions
Step 1
Miliaria occurs more often in summer, in the heat, and less often in winter, when the child is wrapped, sometimes during illness, as a result of increased sweating at a temperature. It appears as a result of overheating, looks like a small red rash, mainly affects the places of skin folds, the upper back. Usually it does not bother the baby in any way, rarely causes mild itching, but it can become infected with improper or careless care, and this is already fraught with more serious problems. Prickly heat can be distinguished from an allergic reaction just by the absence of itching and by the characteristic locations.
Step 2
If you notice pink spots on your baby's skin, pay more attention to hygiene procedures. Washing 1-2 times a day with baby soap and gently drying the skin are already able to relieve the baby from prickly heat. Just be careful not to rub the skin in the affected area with a towel - it is irritated, easily injured, and a secondary infection may join. With extensive lesions, baths can be done with a very weak (pale pink) solution of potassium permanganate.
Step 3
Treatment of the skin with a decoction of chamomile or string helps. You can use baby powder, and in case of severe damage, zinc talker. Give up for a while from fatty creams, switch to light and moisturizing ones, or to a special baby cosmetic oil. Naturally, it is necessary to change your baby's clothes more often, not to allow him to be in wet clothes, in warm and damp rooms. Children's clothing should be made from natural materials. If you still missed the addition of a bacterial infection, see your doctor, he will prescribe the necessary medications. If pruritus is accompanied by itching, antihistamines may be required.
