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Anyone have a cure for prickly heat?
Vanity | 7-12-2009 | Frantzie

Posted on 07/11/2009 9:52:21 PM PDT by Frantzie

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This is common in hot humid climates. It is also called Golfer's Vasculitis (veins).

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! ;-)

1 posted on 07/11/2009 9:52:21 PM PDT by Frantzie
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Rinse down with cool water and apply a baking soda paste. Also - believe it or not - try Noxzema cream.


2 posted on 07/11/2009 9:55:47 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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Twice in one day. I got to post Polish Vodka. It cures all ills.

3 posted on 07/11/2009 9:56:09 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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Massive amounts of beer and sex. That is what I tell my wife. Works for all illness known to man. Repeat as necessary.


4 posted on 07/11/2009 9:56:40 PM PDT by Do the math (Doug)
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To: Frantzie

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.


5 posted on 07/11/2009 9:58:01 PM PDT by basil ( It's time to eliminate all "Gun Free Zones")
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To: Frantzie

Cool water rinse with cold tea bags.
Then talcum powder to keep the skin
dry. Works for me.


6 posted on 07/11/2009 9:58:13 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Frantzie

Cool shower, dry, dust with cornstarch.


7 posted on 07/11/2009 9:59:15 PM PDT by Lorianne
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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.


8 posted on 07/11/2009 9:59:49 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (The UN has never won a war, nor a conflict, but liberals want it to rule all militaries.)
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To: Frantzie

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!


9 posted on 07/11/2009 10:00:04 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted. I Upped My Monthly....Now, Up Yours.)
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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.


10 posted on 07/11/2009 10:00:09 PM PDT by bobby.223
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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.


11 posted on 07/11/2009 10:00:34 PM PDT by Enough_Deceit (Proud Mama of a US Marine and a US Soldier Bitterly Hanging On to Her Guns and Religion. Ooorahh!)
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To: Viking2002

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.


12 posted on 07/11/2009 10:01:03 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: bobby.223

Lime juice is commonly suggested....


13 posted on 07/11/2009 10:02:22 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR....Monthly Donors Wanted. I Upped My Monthly....Now, Up Yours.)
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“Anyone have a cure for prickly heat?”

Stay inside until mid-September.


14 posted on 07/11/2009 10:02:32 PM PDT by decal ("Never allow a nervous female to have access to a pistol, no matter what you're wearing.")
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wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff


15 posted on 07/11/2009 10:02:34 PM PDT by ezo4 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov)
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To: Enough_Deceit

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.

;-)


16 posted on 07/11/2009 10:03:44 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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"It cures all ills. "

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

17 posted on 07/11/2009 10:03:45 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Frantzie

wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff


18 posted on 07/11/2009 10:03:45 PM PDT by ezo4 (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32cxf_yuri-bezmenov)
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To: Do the math

LOL! You and Jet Jaguar are smart a*ses. Love it. Thanks. ;-)


19 posted on 07/11/2009 10:04:46 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: decal

Yeah I got that one.

;-)


20 posted on 07/11/2009 10:05:28 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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