What does chickpea look like in children?

Prickly heat in young children is a common phenomenon. No matter how well you take care of the baby, from time to time characteristic rashes may appear on its skin. There is nothing scary in the prickly heat itself, if the parents know how to distinguish it from other skin and infectious diseases, as well as how to help the toddler. How to recognize the handler, we will discuss in this article.

If the human body experiences overheating, the cooling mechanism starts. This function is performed by sweat. However, in young children, the sweat glands work under conditions physiological overload, because the sweat ducts, through which the sweat is brought out, are narrow, and the skin itself is very delicate and thin.

In response to the heat, the glands begin to produce sweat, and its discharge is difficult. There may be blockage of the ducts, and at this point an inflammatory process will begin, in which both the gland and the outer layer of the epidermis will be involved.

The child can overheat pretty quickly, this is due to imperfect work center thermoregulation. Overheating is often caused by too warm clothes in which the baby is dressed by caring parents, a large amount of clothes, heat in the room where the baby is sleeping, as well as diseases that occur with high fever. During fever, sweating increases, and the use of antipyretic drugs only enhances the process of sweating.

To a greater extent than others, children who are prone to allergic reactions are susceptible, chubby toads with overweight, children suffering from rickets, premature babies and artificial crumbs.

There are several types of prickly heat, which differ from each other externally, but not in the mechanisms of development. Any of these species can be observed both in children under one year old and in children after one year:

This type of disease is most common in children, and crystalline flowers are considered the simplest of all types. You can recognize it by bubbles of small size, which appear in the place of increased sweating - on the neck, on the buttocks, inside the skin folds on the hands and feet. The rash is not accompanied by inflammation, there is no redness, erosion.

The bubbles themselves have a diameter of no more than 1 mm, they burst fairly easily, can merge with the neighboring bubbles and create a large enough rash on the area. After the bubble bursts, a crust is formed, which peels off strongly.

This prickly heat has a brighter color. It looks like red or dark pink bumps, which are usually formed in places of prolonged heat exposure, where evaporation of sweat is difficult, for example, in the pope under a diaper. May be accompanied by the formation of bubbles, which, unlike the crystalline form, do not tend to merge.

Swelling of the skin that surrounds tubercles or vesicles, marked redness, itching, and even painful sensations is characteristic of red prickly heat.

This type of rash on the skin is very similar to crystalline prickly heat, however, inside the bubbles there is not a clear liquid, resembling drops of sweat on the skin, but a white, almost milky liquid. Such prickly heat often enough complicated by general inflammation of the affected skin. However, the swelling of the outer layer of the skin with white tinder is not extensive. After the white bubbles burst, a whitish or slightly yellowish crust remains, which quickly dries out and disappears.

Deep prickly heat is also called papular for the formation of characteristic papules. They are formed not superficially, but in the deeper skin layers. Such prickly heat is considered more severe than all of the above.

Papules have a fairly solid size in diameter - about 2 mm, rashes are accompanied by severe itching, pain. Such prickly heat is formed in any part of the body, in infants it is often enough to be seen in the groin, on the back, on the stomach.

Recognizing diaper rash is not very difficult, because they are a weeping eczema, which used to be one of the prickly heat species. In diaper rash, any type of prick is transformed, if it was not noticed in time or the factors of overheating and sweating were not eliminated. "Running" prickly heat on the body requires long-term treatment.

It is manifested by large areas of lesions, severe redness, a combination of surface and deeper formations of the elements of the rash, weeping surfaces. In a child, diaper rash causes pain, the behavior of the crumbs changes, and the temperature may even rise.

Any prickly heat can also become infected. If the integrity of the bubbles is broken, then this creates the prerequisites for bacteria and fungi to enter the body. Moreover, the danger is much closer than it seems to adults, because opportunistic microorganisms live on the skin of people all the time. Once such entry gates are formed, such as wounds, bacteria can cease to be a peaceful neighbor and become a dangerous and cunning enemy.

It is possible to talk about infection when pustules begin to form at the site of perspiration. Any suppuration is a sure sign of the onset of bacterial inflammation. Most often, this effect causes Staphylococcus aureus.

Infected prickly heat can be deployed on any part of the body, often enough it can be observed even in children of preschool and school age, for example, on the feet, if the feet are sweating in the wrong shoe, in the space between the heel and metatarsum, in the arch of the foot and between the toes.

Any type of chickens, except for the infected, can be cured at home without much difficulty. However, for starters, parents should be able to distinguish it from allergies or infectious diseases, which require the mandatory consultation of a physician.

With allergies, rashes are almost not prone to merging, they are characterized by increased itching, may be accompanied by eating disorders or allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, deterioration of health. Prickly heat does not cause such changes. It can be distinguished from an allergic reaction with the help of the so-called air test. Baby with prickly heat needs to be stripped naked and leave to take air baths for a couple of hours.

Prickly heat during this time will turn pale and visually decrease. Air will not have any effect on an allergic rash, the damage will remain the same as it was originally. From heatworm infection can be distinguished by the accompanying symptoms.

First of all, parents should assess the area of ​​the hen's spread, its degree, type. Then you should take measures to eliminate the factors that overheat the child's body. For this:

• The air temperature in the room where the child sleeps leads to optimal values ​​- 18-21 degrees of heat with a relative humidity of 50-70%.
• The child is bathed in warm, but not hot water without soap and other detergents. In the water for bathing, you can add a decoction of chamomile, calendula, series.

• In summer, it is better to leave the baby undressed, as prickly heat passes faster when exposed to fresh air. If there is winter in the yard and there is no possibility to strip the child, the baby should be changed into clothes made from natural fabrics, do not entangle them, make sure that the seams of clothes do not touch the places of diaper rash and prickly heat, do not rub skin.

• Prickly fish can be processedBepantenom», «Sudokremom". It is forbidden to lubricate her baby cream and other ointments with a fatty base, as this will enhance the rash. You can not lubricate the child pottery with alcohol or vodka.
• With extensive and deep prickly heat, you can give your child a dose of an antihistamine (Suprastin, "Tavegil"And others) to reduce puffiness and reduce itching. Also, with extensive prickly heat, you can apply ointment with glucocorticosteroids - "AdvantanAnd Triderm.

• Infected prickly heat may require treatment with antiseptic - green paint or "Fucorcin", The use of ointments with antibiotics, antifungal drugs.

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