Showing posts with label heat rash remedies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heat rash remedies. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 05, 2013

Prickly Heat - Some Causes, Remedies and Prevention

I never expected something like prickly heat could cause chaos but it does!! This is very common in children because there sweat glands are not developed but obviously they affect adults too.The air-conditioning at work kept conking off for various reasons and I ended up with Miliaria or prickly heat. And, it was very annoying. The Miliaria cases can lead to heat exhaustion but mostly it feels like a bunch of pins are pricking you all.the.damn.time. Who knew that salt(there is salt in sweat, in case you didn't know) could be such a powerful irritant?

Later on, I did a lot of research on prickly heat just for your sake. Here are some of the things that I tried or read about which made sense/were effective: