Treat prickly heat with homegrown plants

April 17, 2013 22:40

It's only been a few hot days and my baby (6 months old) has a lot of prickly heat. Is there any way to treat prickly heat without applying medicine or taking medicine? (Van Anh, Hai Duong).


Your baby is young so it is better if you avoid giving him or her medication.prickly heatYou can completely cure your baby by using herbs. There are a few ways as follows:

- Take the watermelon rind, wash it, remove all the red flesh and gently rub it on the prickly heat after bathing. Rub it 3 times a day and after 2 days the baby's prickly heat will be less.

- Usebitter melon:Slice the loofah thinly and rub it on the prickly heat or squeeze the juice to apply. It will go away in a few days.

- Use fresh ginger: Leave the ginger skin on, wash it, crush it, use a cotton ball to soak up the ginger juice, and apply it to the area with prickly heat. Apply about 2-3 times a day.

In addition, you can bathe your baby every day with cooling herbs such as bitter melon, collard greens, gotu kola leaves, star fruit leaves, milkweed, perilla leaves, galangal leaves, fresh ginger... You can wash one of these herbs, crush or grind them, then take the juice, mix it with warm water and bathe your baby every day.


According to Dep online - nt