The skin of the newborn baby is very delicate, and from incorrect care, various rashes often appear on it. Especially a lot of problems exist in the summer. When it’s hot, sweating often occurs in the child. How to treat her, all parents should know. After all, this is not an infectious disease, but the shortcomings of caring for a baby, and you can cope with it
in the home.
To begin treatment correctly, you need to know how prickly heat looks in a child. After all, these rashes can be confused with an allergic rash and with the manifestations of certain diseases. Sweating manifests itself in the form of a small pink or red rash, sometimes vesicles with transparent contents. This disease appears due to imperfection in newborn sweat glands, so the rash most often occurs in the armpits, elbows, neck and buttocks. If the baby overheats, the access of air to his skin is impaired, then the baby begins to sweat. How to treat her at home, you need to know all mothers.
It is best to prevent such problems from arising. To do this, do not overheat the child, do not confuse him. At home, it is advisable not to keep the baby in the diaper and on wet diapers for a long time. Often arrange for the child to sunbathe and air bath and conduct hygiene procedures on time. You need to bathe your baby every day, you can even several times, best of all with plain water, without soap. Choose the right clothes for an older child - it is undesirable to use things made of synthetic fabrics.
But it happens that, subject to all these rules, a child develops sweating. How to treat her in this case?
It is best to bathe the baby in decoctions of herbs: chamomile, string, celandine or oak bark. You can add a very weak solution of potassium permanganate, but not often, since it dries the skin. It is recommended to wipe the affected area with cotton moistened with chamomile broth, and after drying lubricate with baby cream. To dry the places of occurrence of prickly heat, use a powder.
Some babies behave uneasily when they develop prickly heat, scream and refuse to eat. In this case, their protective forces must be supported. The pediatrician will advise what means to raise immunity can be given to the child. But the best thing mom can do is breastfeed her baby. Indeed, in breast milk there are all the substances necessary for it. It is very good if mom will drink carrot juice, it is good for the skin, and from 9 months you can give it to the baby himself.
In more advanced cases, more radical remedies are required. How to smear prickly heat in a child if hygiene procedures do not help?
It relieves an itchy soda solution. Dissolve a spoonful of soda in a glass of cool boiled water, moisten gauze and apply to the affected areas. You can also lubricate them with a weak solution of tincture of calendula. If sweating is a big concern for the child, it is recommended to use zinc ointment or panthenol cream. Sometimes you can find advice to lubricate the baby's skin with baby oil. But this is unacceptable in the heat, and it does not cure rashes. If you use a baby cream to lubricate the skin of a child, then choose one that includes chamomile or a string.
Almost all mothers face such a problem as prickly heat in a child. How to treat it, you can find out from the doctor. But the best way is to prevent the baby from overheating, to dress and bathe him correctly.