Eczema is not unfamiliar to parents. Many places also call it “infantile eczema”, which is a common skin disease in infants and young children, and is easily confused with heat rash, which is also known as “prickly heat”. Eczema and heat rash are two common infant diseases. Understanding the difference between these two diseases and taking appropriate nursing measures can avoid more problems.
How to distinguish eczema and heat rash?
Eczema is first seen in infants aged 2-3 months and has a strong relationship with allergies. The most common cause is allergies to milk and eggs. The rash usually starts on the face and can occur all over the body in severe cases. Eczema is sometimes dry, characterized by rough and exfoliated skin, or even inflame and swell and seep. Eczema itches and infants often scratch with their hands.
Heat rash is that when the temperature around the body is too high, infants’ neck, armpit, elbow and knee, popliteal fossa and other folds grow rash. Sweating areas are more likely to have heat rash. Heat rash is a small granular red rash with a clear boundary. In severe cases, the milky purulent fluid appears in the small granular rash. Heat rash usually does not itch, so you will not see the baby scratching with his hands.
Method of Nursing Eczema
- Screen for allergies
For breast-fed babies, mothers should recall what foods they ate and then breast-fed their babies, causing eczema to worsen.
For babies who eat formula milk powder, mothers should replace the milk powder with amino acids or deep hydrolyzed formula milk powder. If eczema is alleviated in 2 weeks, milk allergy can be confirmed.
For babies who eat supplementary food, mothers should observe for 3 days every time they add one kind of food (such as egg yolk, meat paste, etc.) to see if their baby has allergic eczema. If they have allergies, they should stop in time and try to add it after 3 months.
- Avoid irritating the skin
Don’t let irritating substances touch baby’s skin, don’t apply greasy skincare products on eczema, and don’t wash eczema with soap and hot water. Before the baby sleeps, mothers should properly bound the baby’s hands to prevent the baby from scratching the skin because of itching.
- Reduce outgoing
During the period of eczema, don’t take babies to crowded places and avoid contact with people with herpes simplex, so as to avoid other complications.
- Apply drug
If there are serious skin cracks and exudation, mothers need to use hormone-containing ointments and antibiotics under the guidance of your doctor. Don’t be afraid to use antibiotics and hormonal ointments, or eczema may aggravate and persist for a long time.
Method of nursing heat rush
- Regulate room temperature
Keep the room temperature between 20 and 22 degrees Celsius in spring and summer, and between 22 and 24 degrees Celsius in autumn and winter.
Keep the baby’s skin dry and wear fewer clothes in summer. The criteria are: the baby’s neck and body are warm, hands and feet are slightly cool.
- Absorb sweat
Use soft dry gauze to absorb sweat from wrinkles of skin such as neck, axilla and leg root in time.
- Unfold skin wrinkles
Mothers can let the baby lie on his stomach and expand the neck wrinkles to help the skin breathe.
- Take regular baths
When bathing a baby, it is advisable to use warm water and non-alkaline bath gel to clean the baby’s body. After washing, dry the baby’s body, and then apply non-oily moisturizer, so as not to interfere with the normal breathing of the skin.
