Heat Rashes
About Heat Rashes
Prickly Heat occurs when sweat glands get blocked and sweat is trapped under the skin. Prickly heat, which is also known as miliaria rubra, is one of the most common types of heat rashes. In this form of heat rash, the sweat duct becomes red and inflamed and manifest as small bumps with a red halo around them. They can be found grouped together inside the folds of his or her skin, such as the neck, armpits, and groin. Symptoms are itching, redness of the skin and tiny blisters. It’s most common in hot humid weather. Anyone can develop it and it usually only lasts a few days. When the skin is cool and dry, it will disappear.
Although heat rashes usually goes away on its own in a few days, some children do require treatment. This may be as simple as removing the child from the environment that triggers the rash. Moving the child inside to a cooler, air conditioned environment also goes a long way to easing their discomfort. Mild strength topical steroids, although these usually aren’t needed can be used for treatment if necessary. Calamine lotion is another remedy often used on itchy baby heat rashes. Another option to try is compresses with cool water. In the event a secondary infection does occur, antibiotics will probably be needed to treat heat rashes. Another alternative is to dress the child in less clothing.
Heat Rashes – Miliaria
Heat rashes is also called miliaria. Heat rashes is most common in babies and young infants when they become overheated. This happens either because it is too warm outside or they are simply overdressed. It could also be because they have a fever. Miliaria profunda occurs in people who have experienced repeated episodes of prickly heat.
Miliaria crystallina is another type of heat rashes. In this particular heat rashes the skin doesn’t get inflamed, leading to the standard appearance of small clear vesicles. These are without any redness or other symptoms.
Preventing Heat Rashes
A key factor in preventing heat rashes like these is avoiding excessive heat and humidity when possible. Some ointments, including moisturizers, or oil based products can block the sweat ducts and should not be used on a child’s skin. Most methods of preventing heat rash start with the goal of keeping your child from getting overheated. Take steps to dress your child in weather appropriate, loose fitting clothing, so that he doesn’t get overheated. These things go a long way to prevent the discomfort of getting heat rashes.
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Head Lice Pictures
A Great Aid to Head Lice Identification
In terms of diagnosis it is very easy to get it wrong where head lice are concerned; head lice symptoms may be easy to identify, but it remains a fact that the characteristic itching may not occur until several weeks, even months, after the lice have moved their families in to stay. This is why knowing what head lice look like, and why keeping up with regular examinations is important, and it’s also why we should be very grateful that there are many excellent head lice pictures available for us to look at, some on the internet and many in books and other publications.
As a head louse is very small, it is important that we get hold of all the head lice information we can in order to understand what these tiny creatures are all about; they measure, in adult form, no more than a pinhead across and there are lice pictures showing them in enlarged form, but with a regular everyday object next to them – a coin for instance – to define the real size of the louse.
Such pictures are technical marvels, and we have the combined advances in digital photography and computer graphics to thank for that; a hundred years ago a picture of a head louse in a book on head lice treatment would most likely have been drawn by a very talented artist, using a microscope to view and creating a surprisingly beautiful depiction of what is a quite fascinating creature. These days the photographer is able to get an exceptional shot thanks to digital techniques, and the picture can be enhanced and enlarged on computer, and printed in extreme high resolution for the perusal of detail and form.
Head Lice Life Cycle
One of the best sequences to look at is a set of pictures showing the head lice life cycle; these are widely available and very interesting, and take you through all the stages from the nit – the egg – to the nymph or young louse, to the adult, a process that takes just two weeks from laying of the egg to adulthood; at that point the louse begins breeding again, hence we can understand why the population is prone to rapid expansion.
The digital age has given to us the ability to look at exceptional pictures of miniature creatures, and the head louse is one such, but it is the way that these pictures enable us to understand and recognize these tiny mites that is of the most benefit.
Head Lice Treatment
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Chicken Pox
What is Chicken Pox?
Chicken pox is a highly contagious viral infection caused by the varicella virus. Chicken pox is a disease of childhood and ninety percent of cases occur in children aged fourteen years and younger. Chicken pox can occur at any time, but occurs most often in March, April, and May in warmer climates. Chicken pox is typically diagnosed clinically based on the history of viral symptoms and the characteristic appearance of the rash. However, sometimes chicken pox can be confused with herpes simplex, impetigo, insect bites, or scabies.
Most people are aware of the rash, but chicken pox starts out looking just like a common cold. Runny nose, sneezing, cough, and fever are typical first symptoms of chicken pox. Three to five days later the rash shows up.
Chicken Pox Rashes
The rash itself appears as dots ranging from the size of an eraser head to about the size of a dime. Within each of these dots is a fluid filled vesicle which may pop over the course of the following days. The lesions may be painful, itch, or not be bothersome at all. They may be found anywhere on the skin, in the mouth and within the vaginal area and even unseen within the penis. Urination may be painful because of this.
The most contagious time occurs when the person is manifesting the cold-like symptoms. This happens usually two to five days before the rash appears. As a result the time in which someone is most contagious occurs before the person even knows he has chicken pox. After the rash appears, the person is infectious for about five days or until all the lesions have begun crusting over.
Who gets Chicken Pox?
Humans are the only animals that get chicken pox. So the only way to catch it is by being around a person who is infected. The virus is spread through secretions and by tiny droplets, so sharing saliva, sneezing, and coughing are good ways to pass the virus from one person to another.
Children with immune problems can have significant problems if infected with chicken pox. These include those children infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, those with cancer, those on steroids for other illnesses, and newborn babies.
There is not a lot that can be done to completely eliminate the symptoms once a child is infected with chicken pox. Most treatment is then aimed at trying to alleviate the pain, itch, and fever associated with chicken pox.
