The hemorrhagia is an ordinary skin irritation due to an imbalance between evaporation and sweating. It can be deep, red or crystalline. If runny pussy is triggered, it will easily turn into diaper rash first, and then into diaper dermatitis. It also happens that exudative-catarrhal diathesis is also mistaken for heat loss.
Prerequisites for the appearance of prickly heat in young children are:
- vulnerability and tenderness of the skin, due to which it instantly becomes inflamed and irritated;
- abundant blood supply to the skin, resulting in overheating;
- skin supersaturation with water;
- difficulty sweating due to poorly developed sweat ducts.
Due to the fact that the sweat channels finally develop only at the age of 6 years, prickly heat can occur even in a child who is three years old.
Causes of prickly heat in a child
Prickly heat usually develops as a result of blockage of sweat ducts, excessive sweating or overheating. And the mouth with the tubules are not able to cope with such a load, so they are clogged with skin cells.
A child may overheat from:
- long wearing of diapers in the heat and in too warm a room;
- wearing very warm or synthetic items;
- rare walks and swimming;
- long stay in wet and stuffy rooms;
- poor care and fat creams;
- high fever when sick
Another causes of prickly heat in children are:
- rickets;
- diaper allergy or irritation due to its too small size;
- overheating, accompanied by contact with urine and feces, friction.
Further disregard for the symptoms and causes of chillbones will turn diaper into diaper dermatitis with an infection attached to it.
But it is also worth remembering that prickly heat can occur for no reason in premature babies who are bottle-fed, prone to diarrhea, obesity and diabetes, as well as in allergy sufferers.
Symptoms of the disease
Signs of the usual tread are small red patches on irritated skin of the same color. With crystalline prickly heat, small pearly bubbles appear on a completely healthy skin. They peel off after damage, sometimes merge, and after a few days they dry up.
During red prickly heat, the nodules or bubbles are white and appear on the red skin. Such rashes are accompanied by itching and burning, disappear within 14 days.
Deep prickly heat is accompanied by the appearance of flesh-colored bubbles, which quickly disappear.
Diagnostics
Since prickly heat is accompanied by a rash, it must be distinguished from diathesis, urticaria, allergies, dermatitis, as well as from more serious diseases (herpes zoster, scarlet fever, chickenpox and measles).
Visually, only a pediatrician can make this differentiation. Therefore, when a rash appears, the child must be shown to the doctor.
If prickly heat is accompanied by a bacterial or fungal infection, then on the baby’s skin one can notice poorly healing, weeping cracks, sores, swelling with redness and pustules. In such a situation, in order to determine the infectious pathogen, the child is scraped for pathogens or bacposa for microflora.
How to treat headache in a child before the year and after
The treatment algorithm for prickly heat in children up to the year is as follows:
- The child must be bathed once or twice a day. It is desirable that these water procedures take place with the addition of yarrow, oak bark, chamomile or succession. Every two days, the child is made a bath with a manganese solution. Potassium permanganate crystals are diluted in a separate dish until completely dissolved. Then the resulting solution is gradually poured into a bath until the water turns a pale pink shade. These baths eliminate inflammation and relieve irritation. Likewise, children are bathed until they have a pottery drop.
- After the baby swims, his skin needs to be dried well. For this, the child is not wiped off, but propped with a towel, especially where there are skin folds.
With poditsa, the creases are not treated with cream, but with powder. It is sometimes added with cooling starch and healing panthenol along with starch, talc and zinc oxide. Dust a ball of cotton wool in the powder and powder the affected places with it. However, it cannot be used when diaper rash or diaper dermatitis occurs.- Particularly disturbing places with lesions are treated with gauze moistened with soda solution (1 tsp. Soda for 1 cup of warm water). Here, too, it is important not to rub baby skin.
- Zinc ointment, Sudocrem or Bepanten usually help in treating prickly heat. Antibacterial ointments are used to get rid of prickly heat with an attached infection. But these drugs are prescribed only by the doctor.
With poditsa, the creases are not treated with cream, but with powder. It is sometimes added with cooling starch and healing panthenol along with starch, talc and zinc oxide. Dust a ball of cotton wool in the powder and powder the affected places with it. However, it cannot be used when diaper rash or diaper dermatitis occurs.Mother's milk also helps in the treatment of chickens, so it is important for them to feed the baby. The rash from this disappears pretty quickly. It is also necessary to air the room more often and try not to overheat the baby.
After a year, the rashes are wiped with disinfecting solutions of boric acid or alcohol. Bathing in this case should be somewhat limited. But after them, you still need to gently blot the baby’s body with a soft towel.
Places with rash are treated with zinc oxide or powder. After the year, it is possible to arrange air baths for babies so that their skin rests from diapers and clothes. In order for prickly heat to pass without complications, it is advisable to wear the child in natural, non-synthetic things.
Preventive measures
To prevent chills in children, they should not be overheated. Also need to more closely monitor their skin. First, the child’s clothes should be made only from natural materials so that the skin breathes and the sweat evaporates.
Secondly, it is necessary to look, so that the temperature of the child’s body does not rise. To do this, in the nursery create an atmosphere with a temperature of not more than 20 degrees. It is advisable to wear children outside due to the weather.
Diapers for the prevention of prickly heat, change about eight times a day, as well as after each stool, especially in summer time. It is important to still wash the baby every time you change the diaper. If it is impossible to wash off using wet wipes with aloe, chamomile, calendula or vitamins.
If a child has an allergy to diapers, or they do not fit him, then they definitely need to be replaced by others. For daily bathing, use only baby soap or shampoo. After the bath, pour over the children with cooler water not only for hardening, but also for the prevention of chickens.
They carry out air baths for the babies along with the water baths, leaving them bare for 10-15 minutes in a well-ventilated room. Then this period is increased to 30 minutes. Such procedures are usually performed twice or thrice a day.
Powders for washing children's clothes must be hypoallergenic. This will help to avoid irritation on the skin of the child. Daily examination of the child’s body is also part of the prevention of chickens. Any redness found should be treated with prophylactic agents, baby powder, or vegetable ointment.
You can not care for the skin of children using antibacterial soaps, creams and wipes. After all, they contain chemical additives that cause contact dermatitis. Wipes containing chlorhexidine are especially dangerous for babies.
Conclusion
It is worth remembering that prickly heat is not a disease, but irritation. It is not particularly dangerous and not contagious. Proper child care will help get rid of this scourge. And when it appears, competent and timely treatment eliminates all symptoms very quickly.
The main thing is not to run prickly heat, so that no more serious complications appear. Prevention, hardening of children, frequent walks in the fresh air, water and air baths will especially help moms.
