How is sudamen

Sudamen unpleasant for adults and can be dangerous for the life of the child first months of life. The fact is that inflammation in the baby's skin is always prickly heat can get infected and then start a real fire: pustules on the skin become a source of infection from pathogens can spread throughout the body.

What is prickly heat and why it appears

Sudamen - a disease of the skin caused by sweating. In adults, sudamen is inextricably linked with sweating. This condition is called hyperhidrosis and can occur both in normal and in various diseases.

Normally, hyperhidrosis is a defensive reaction of the organism when overheating, physical exertion and so on. It also occurs in various diseases of the nervous and endocrine systems, chronic diseases of internal organs. The chemical composition of sweat at the same time may not change or may change, gaining an unpleasant stench.

In small, especially in newborns the sweat glands are not yet developed and the body's thermoregulation is not perfect. These children may not respond to an overheating sweating (thereby normalizing body temperature), so if you have such a child overheating temperature rises, violated the metabolic processes, the consequence of which is a skin rash.

How is heat rash in adults

In adults, there are three forms of prickly heat: crystal, red and papular.

In acute diseases involving temperature, followed by profuse sweat, may develop a temporary blockage of the sweat pores due to the expansion of the final sections of ducts of the sweat glands to produce in the region of small (temporary) cysts. At the same time on the skin of the trunk and limbs appear mass of small surface bubbles with transparent content, which usually does not bother the patient and may go unnoticed. It takes such sudamen (called crystal) during the day, sometimes can last for several days.

When heavy physical work, long-term presence in too warm clothes, sweating at high temperatures may appear different kind of prickly heat - red, which is manifested by severe itching and densely rash (papules or elevations with a diameter of several mm with a bright color on the edge) on the skin of the trunk and flexor surfaces of the hands and feet. This sudamen kept much longer crystal - up to two weeks

In tropical countries the people who could not adapt to the heat encountered papular or tropical heat rash, which is almost indistinguishable from the red, that is one of the most pronounced its variants.

Symptoms of prickly heat in the newborn children

Since the skin of the newborn does not sweat, when it comes to overheating sudamen - towering bright pink rash Rash: Classification - primary and secondary elements   a diameter of a few millimeters. Parents no mistake: this is not a harmless condition, because the skin is inflamed, which means that the "open gate" for all kinds of micro-organisms that surround us on all sides. And this despite the fact that the immune system (the body's defenses) the child is almost not formed.

Joining infection can be seen at once: on the skin of a newborn baby bubbles appear with pus. And as the general condition of the child in this case is usually not affected, some parents try to cope with this situation themselves, and it is in vain: you can skip complication. Complication can be any, because the infection can spread to any organ. Most, of course, prickly heat out well, without complications. If a child in a timely manner and properly assisted, then sudamen will take place during the week.

Treatment for prickly heat

Treatment of adult prickly heat - it's basically the treatment of hyperhidrosis. Hyperhidrosis can be treated conservatively, and by means of the operation.

All conservative methods involve a decrease in sweating for a while. For that topically applied agents such as formalin, various powders, and so forth. Be sure to prescribe sedatives, relieves tension and accordingly - sweating, physiotherapy, acupuncture techniques Reflexology: restoring the body's bio-energy   and so on.

Hyperhidrosis also treated using the drug Botox, which is a dilution of botulinum toxin - a poison that highlights the pathogen that causes botulism. This poison has a paralyzing effect on the nervous system, which is held a few months. Interrupted nervous communication, and sweat glands just do not function.

To stop sweating and conducted operations: intersected nerve innervating this gland and the sweating disappears forever.

Skin manifestations of prickly heat are removed by wearing loose clothing made from natural fabrics, daily administration of special baths, for example, potassium permanganate or herbal infusions, has disinfectant properties, and then powdered with the skin powder (eg talcum powder). Applied as an ointment (such as menthol oil). Appointed as antihistamines, which reduce swelling of the skin.

Sudamen in newborn infants should be treated only under medical supervision. It should be remembered that a newborn child can not overheat. To do this, it is not necessary to swaddle him tightly enough to put him two undershirts (one smell behind, the other in the front), and the two legs swaddle diapers (thin and warm), leaving room for a diaper their movement.

Galina Romanenko

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