How to cure heat rash for babies
effectively? The answer seems to be easy; however, it isn’t simple.
In summer, the weather is hot, so poisonous
temperature in children’s body accumulates a lot and it will be secreted
through sweat and it will cause stagnant state on skin. Combing with dust,
slime on skin, children will easily have heat rash such as skin has a lot of
red rash, they appears into masses and sometimes they are heavy, especially in
the areas that sweat secretes a lot such as forehead, neck, back, chest and
folds of body. This thing will make babies feel unpleasant and itchy. As a
result, babies won’t eat deliciously and sleep well. If mothers don’t have the
method to cure for babies, heat rash can become spot, eczema, nail whitehead.
In folk, there are many good remedies that
are used to cure heat rash; however, if mothers don’t apply them correctly,
they can make the state about heat rash of babies become more serious. In some
cases, it can lead to skin inflammation and blood poisoning. Mothers can refer
to the following experience about the things that they should and shouldn’t do
in curing heat rash for children. They will be very useful for mothers to
protect baby skin when the summer is coming.
Cure heat rash – the things that mothers should do
Ensure
about hygiene when bathing babies with water of leaves
Folk experience gave many remedies to cure
heat rash from nature that is used to cure heat rash effectively. Mothers can
use kinds of plant and fruit having cool feature such as bitter melon,
marjoram, balm mint, lemon to bath for babies. However, mothers need to pay
attention that they should wash carefully and soak these kinds of vegetable
with bittern or permanganate before grinding, filtering, or cooking water to
take a bath because these kinds of leaf can contain a lot of harmful bacteria
and even these bacteria don’t die after cooking. In addition, kinds of fuzz
leaves can stimulate for children’s skin.
In addition, although these kinds of leaf
can make the body cool or provide natural antibiotic, they cannot dissolve
slime on skin, so babies need to take a bath with shower cream before rinse
with water of leaves. After taking a bath with water of leaves, mothers also
bathe babies with warm water to washout flour of leaves that can accumulate on
skin and it can cause bacterial contamination.
After
taking a bath with water of leaves, mothers also bathe babies with warm water
to washout flour of leaves.
Choose
talcum powder that ensures about the quality
Applying talcum powder on the area of skin
that has heat rash after taking a bath will ease baby’s itch. It will
contribute to cure heat rash. However, in the market, there are many kinds of
talcum powder that have the different component, dose and label, so mothers
need to calculate to choose the good products that have brand name and clear
prestige to avoid the counterproductive effect for babies such as allergy,
dermatitis…
Airy
and cool feature is important to babies
When mothers prevent heat rash together
with babies, mothers should try to create airy and cool environment for babies.
Besides choosing clothes made from cotton that can absorb sweat, you should
also bathe babies regularly, apply cold compresses to babies or use cold towel
to wipe babies about 4-5 times/day and 5-10 minutes/time. You should create
airy environment for babies such as using fan, regulator with the suitable temperature.
Mothers also need to pay attention to prevent sunlight for babies when going
out with hat and hat with large brim because sunlight can make heat rash
develop more. You should also let babies drink water regularly and drink other
cool water such as tapioca, orange juice, lemon juice, pennywort.
Mothers
should choose clothes make from cotton that can absorb sweat to help babies
feel cool and pleasant.
Things that mothers shouldn’t do when babies have heat
rash
Do not
squeeze a lot of lemon juice or boil water of leaves too solidly
Squeezing a lot of lemon juice into bath
water or rubbing lemon on babies’ skin will make their skin be stimulated and
damaged because the high content of acid. If you dissolve lemon and salt into
bath water, you shouldn’t use them too much, you need to pay attention to the
suitable rate. If not, it will make babies’ weak skin sting and stimulate.
Mothers shouldn’t cook water of leaves too solidly because the starch of leaves
can accumulate on leaves a lot, and as a result, it will cause bacterial
contamination, dermatitis and allergy for babies.
Squeezing
a lot of lemon juice into bath water or rubbing lemon on babies’ skin will make
their skin be stimulated and damaged.
Do not
bathe babies with the water of leaves when babies’ skin is grazed and has pus
When baby skin is inflamed and dermatitis
is too serious because babies feel itchy and scratch and this thing makes
protective film. Although the water of leaves is cooked, it also increases the
risk of breaking into body of bacteria. As a result, the state of infection
will increase and sometimes it can cause unexpected complications. To children
that have inflammation near nerve and blood vessel such as face, neck, head, if
mothers continue bathing babies with the water of leaves and don’t cure timely,
it can cause obstruction of vena in brain and cause sequel for babies.
Do not
use shower cream of adults or massage for babies
Shower cream of adults will contain the
high content of alkali that can make baby skin dried. As a result, it will
increase injection and heat rash on baby skin. In addition, many mothers have
the habit of massaging for babies with essential oil of coconut and essential
oil of olive. However, in the hot days of summer, these kinds of essential oil
will make the unpleasant feeling increase, creating eczema and heat rash for
babies.
Massaging
for babies is very good; however, mothers should avoid using essential of
coconut and olive to massage for babies in summer.
Do not
rub remedy for babies without nomination of doctor
If babies have itch a lot, they have
whiteheads on skin, heavy and red heat rash in a long time, mothers should take
babies to go to dermatology to check and cure. You don’t absolutely buy
medicine to rub and keep children to stay at home and cure because it can make
the disease become more serious, not including that complications that children
can meet.
