Posted on 07/11/2009 9:52:21 PM PDT by Frantzie
I was wondering if any doctors here or moms or grannies have any suggestions for "prickly heat."
Apparently your legs, usually around the shins and calf get this. I put sunscreen on and even without sunscreen our pores can clog and the salt builds up from sweat/perspriation. It irritates the veins.
My legs lit up and I was saying "what the h**l is that." I was worried it was something serious. It looks pretty awful. The cure is to keep cool and stay in air conditioning. Gee thanks.
Common in kids and babies - poor babies.
It sounds silly and "prickly heat" sounds like something from a Tennessee Williams play with Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or something). "Oh she sufferin from prickly heat."
It is gross - help! ;-)
Twice in one day. I got to post Polish Vodka. It cures all ills.
Massive amounts of beer and sex. That is what I tell my wife. Works for all illness known to man. Repeat as necessary.
Having raised 5 kids, mainly in the Texas heat, I’ll tell you what I used with good results: sprinkle on some corn starch and rub it around a bit.
Cool water rinse with cold tea bags.
Then talcum powder to keep the skin
dry. Works for me.
Cool shower, dry, dust with cornstarch.
Grape seed extract helps rebuild the bleeding vessels you experience with that. Basically, older people get it from leaking blood vessels. Also look into hesperidin.
Hesperidin comes from the white area on orange and grapefruit rinds and is also in the sheath around the pulp.
The cheapest place for grape seed extract, non-bulk, is Vitacost.com.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miliaria
http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec18/ch206/ch206b.html
http://www.natural-homeremedies.org/homeremedies-prickly-heat.htm
Good luck!
1-2 glasses of sugarcane juice OR 3-4 glasses of lime juice, daily. has worked for me 100% of the time when needed since granny passed it along to me many moon ago. give it a try.
From the Merck Website:
The condition is controlled by keeping the skin cool and dry. Use of powders and antiperspirants often helps. Conditions that increase sweating should be avoided, thus an air-conditioned environment is ideal.
What Causes Prickly Heat?
Prickly heat results when sweat glands are blocked and ruptured, and sweat is trapped below the skin.
Once the rash develops, corticosteroid creams or lotions are used, sometimes with a bit of menthol added. However, these topical treatments are not as effective as keeping the skin cool and dry.
Thanks. I will give it a shot. I was ready to try ice cubes even. One site suggest drinking lime juice or lots of citrus juice.
It is weird that I never got it before. Good old baking soda and Noxzema. I will give it a go.
I tried aloe for sunburn with Lidocane from Solarcaine but it did not help. Considered apple cider vinegar because it is good for sunburns and just about anything else you can think of.
Lime juice is commonly suggested....
“Anyone have a cure for prickly heat?”
Stay inside until mid-September.
wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff
Thanks to all. See the wise guys suggest beer, vodka and sex and the ladies (and a few guys) have more sensible but less fun suggestions. Thanks - it really is creepy.
;-)
Your "cure" is like the valium(it was pill of the day back then) the dr. gave me when my husband went overseas, leaving me with a job and 3 small kids.
I took 1--just one! Still had all my problems, realized I still had them--just didn't give a d@#n. Threw them out--couldn't afford to feel that way.
On 2d thought, vodka is better--you don't even remember the problems with that. But isn't Russian better?--Smirnof?
vaudine
wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff
LOL! You and Jet Jaguar are smart a*ses. Love it. Thanks. ;-)
Yeah I got that one.
;-)
I don’t know a thing about prickly heat but since you brought up the theater...
Scene in doctor’s waiting room.
Man enters stage right limping and crying loudly.
Straight man on stage says: “Sir, why are you crying?”
Crying man: “I have tomain poisoning, so the doctor cut off my toe.”
Exits left, sobbing loudly.
Another man enters stage right holding his hat tightly against the side of his head and crying loudly.
Straight man on stage says: “Sir, why are you crying?”
Crying man: “I have ear syphilis, so the doctor, he cut off my ear, aaahh!”
Exits left, sobbing loudly.
Straight man on stage starts to exit left very fast saying: “Oh boy, oh boy!”
Nurse on stage says: “Hey, where are you going?”
Straight man turns and says: “I have prickly heat!”
Exits quickly.
Stage to black.
You could drink it and push the ill away for another time.
Or you could use it as a topical solution. It opens pores and lets the gunk out; under the skin.
It’s also good as a windshield wiper fluid additive.
If a baby has it, same applies. Lay the little bugger naked on a pad on floor or in baby bed.
vaudine
Noxzema is also great for sunburns. I also keep a bottle of aloe vera in the fridge, the cold gel really helps to soothe a mild sunburn.
Thanks. Now Bobby .223 - can you tell us all where we can get some .223? Or 9 mm or anything.
;-)
I have to agree with you on the baking soda.... Also, I have used my husband’s spray stuff that he puts on his athletes food..... Lotrimin (sp), I think... and that helps.... also, if you happen to be a woman, spraying Lotrimin under the breasts helps in the summer time
I have tried both Russian and Polish vodka. I prefer the taste of Poland.
Try a zinc body powder like Gold Bond, there are some other brands that are just as effective but less knows.
It is great for itching and skin fungus.
vaudine
But, I thought Lotrimin is an anti-fungal . . ..
maybe so, but it sure works for me.... I also have a rash under one arm (it’s hotter than %^& here), and spray that too......
My dad always told me “Don’t be a dumbass.”
I had to settle for the other one.
:0)
vaudine
Prickly water.
Wodka Wyborowa
Good stuff.
That was from a burlesque called “Sugar Babies” that starred Mickey Rooney, Ann Jillian, and Ann Millers from 1976, or thereabouts.
I realized it might not translate without picturing vaudeville types doing the schtick.
Followed by a milk bath then dredging in seasoned bread crumbs? ;-)
Coke? I will give it a try.
I was having all these fears that I was poisoned by weed killer, psoriasis, chiggers, etc. I looked it up and “prickly heat.” All I could think of was Liz Taylor telling Big Daddy (Burl Ives) that she had prickly heat. I once had to put some chlorine shock in the pool and it is a powder/dust. Well it was hot out and I was sweating - July or August when pools consume chlorine. I had been doing yard work. Some of the dust got on my shins and interacted with the salt (sodium) from the sweat. I am not sure what happens when sodium and chlroine interact but it is not good. Wow did that burn. I could not hose it off fast enough. It took a few seconds. Ouch!
Many uses.
/johnny
Move to a cooler climate!
yep.... after one heat rash, I became a believer.... it cools and seems to get rid of it....
LOL! Yeah thanks. My friend was telling me about his vacation and people playing golf in the mtns in NC and it is 60 degress or so. Thanks God for air conditioning.
Thanks. Mixing up some paste now though I considered some of the alcohol and other ideas. ;-) I figured those just help you forget about the prickly heat.
Breast-ease pads or simply using soft tissue underneath and in between the breasts may help your wife.
Good idea.
Anything I can take to sleep to forget the usurper. ;-)
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