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! ;-)
Twice in one day. I got to post Polish Vodka. It cures all ills.
Massive amounts of beer and sex. That is what I tell my wife. Works for all illness known to man. Repeat as necessary.
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.
Cool water rinse with cold tea bags.
Then talcum powder to keep the skin
dry. Works for me.
Cool shower, dry, dust with cornstarch.
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.
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!
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.
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.
“Anyone have a cure for prickly heat?”
Stay inside until mid-September.
wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff
wipe it rubbing alcohol and then dry and dust with corn starch, keep cool air on it. kills most skin stuff
I don’t know a thing about prickly heat but since you brought up the theater...
Scene in doctor’s waiting room.
Man enters stage right limping and crying loudly.
Straight man on stage says: “Sir, why are you crying?”
Crying man: “I have tomain poisoning, so the doctor cut off my toe.”
Exits left, sobbing loudly.
Another man enters stage right holding his hat tightly against the side of his head and crying loudly.
Straight man on stage says: “Sir, why are you crying?”
Crying man: “I have ear syphilis, so the doctor, he cut off my ear, aaahh!”
Exits left, sobbing loudly.
Straight man on stage starts to exit left very fast saying: “Oh boy, oh boy!”
Nurse on stage says: “Hey, where are you going?”
Straight man turns and says: “I have prickly heat!”
Exits quickly.
Stage to black.
If a baby has it, same applies. Lay the little bugger naked on a pad on floor or in baby bed.
vaudine
Try a zinc body powder like Gold Bond, there are some other brands that are just as effective but less knows.
It is great for itching and skin fungus.
Prickly water.
That was from a burlesque called “Sugar Babies” that starred Mickey Rooney, Ann Jillian, and Ann Millers from 1976, or thereabouts.
I realized it might not translate without picturing vaudeville types doing the schtick.
Move to a cooler climate!
baby powder
go nekkid