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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

I was wondering if any doctors here or moms or grannies have any suggestions for "prickly heat."


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KEYWORDS: heat; pricklyheat; rash
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To: Frantzie

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.


21 posted on 07/11/2009 10:05:32 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: vaudine

You could drink it and push the ill away for another time.

Or you could use it as a topical solution. It opens pores and lets the gunk out; under the skin.

It’s also good as a windshield wiper fluid additive.


22 posted on 07/11/2009 10:07:35 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Frantzie
Soak in cool water. Dry off and apply heat rash powder or the soda paste someone recommended. Turn down a/c and lie spread eagle on your bed. Repeat as needed.

If a baby has it, same applies. Lay the little bugger naked on a pad on floor or in baby bed.

vaudine

23 posted on 07/11/2009 10:07:47 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Viking2002

Noxzema is also great for sunburns. I also keep a bottle of aloe vera in the fridge, the cold gel really helps to soothe a mild sunburn.


24 posted on 07/11/2009 10:08:01 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: bobby.223

Thanks. Now Bobby .223 - can you tell us all where we can get some .223? Or 9 mm or anything.

;-)


25 posted on 07/11/2009 10:08:04 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: Viking2002

I have to agree with you on the baking soda.... Also, I have used my husband’s spray stuff that he puts on his athletes food..... Lotrimin (sp), I think... and that helps.... also, if you happen to be a woman, spraying Lotrimin under the breasts helps in the summer time


26 posted on 07/11/2009 10:08:40 PM PDT by bareford101
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To: vaudine

I have tried both Russian and Polish vodka. I prefer the taste of Poland.


27 posted on 07/11/2009 10:09:45 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Frantzie

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.


28 posted on 07/11/2009 10:10:06 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (The last time I looked, this is still Texas where I live.)
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To: Jet Jaguar
Vodka is too 'spensive. Coke actually cleans windshields well. Course, you have to rinse it off.

vaudine

29 posted on 07/11/2009 10:10:15 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: bareford101
if you happen to be a woman, spraying Lotrimin under the breasts helps in the summer time

But, I thought Lotrimin is an anti-fungal . . ..

30 posted on 07/11/2009 10:10:21 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) We know how to deal with Iran.)
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To: neodad

maybe so, but it sure works for me.... I also have a rash under one arm (it’s hotter than %^& here), and spray that too......


31 posted on 07/11/2009 10:11:35 PM PDT by bareford101
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To: Frantzie

My dad always told me “Don’t be a dumbass.”

I had to settle for the other one.

:0)


32 posted on 07/11/2009 10:11:42 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar
Vodka is my husband's drink. We will have to try Polish.

vaudine

33 posted on 07/11/2009 10:11:51 PM PDT by vaudine
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To: Frantzie

Prickly water.


34 posted on 07/11/2009 10:12:23 PM PDT by Former War Criminal (My soon-to-be senior Senator said so.)
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To: vaudine

Wodka Wyborowa

Good stuff.


35 posted on 07/11/2009 10:13:46 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Frantzie

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.


36 posted on 07/11/2009 10:14:00 PM PDT by Boucheau
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To: basil
sprinkle on some corn starch and rub it around a bit.

Followed by a milk bath then dredging in seasoned bread crumbs? ;-)

37 posted on 07/11/2009 10:14:32 PM PDT by Antonello (Oh my God, don't shoot the banana!)
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To: vaudine

Coke? I will give it a try.


38 posted on 07/11/2009 10:15:28 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Boucheau
LOL! Good one. Does not sound like Tennessee Williams play. ;-)

I was having all these fears that I was poisoned by weed killer, psoriasis, chiggers, etc. I looked it up and “prickly heat.” All I could think of was Liz Taylor telling Big Daddy (Burl Ives) that she had prickly heat. I once had to put some chlorine shock in the pool and it is a powder/dust. Well it was hot out and I was sweating - July or August when pools consume chlorine. I had been doing yard work. Some of the dust got on my shins and interacted with the salt (sodium) from the sweat. I am not sure what happens when sodium and chlroine interact but it is not good. Wow did that burn. I could not hose it off fast enough. It took a few seconds. Ouch!

39 posted on 07/11/2009 10:16:17 PM PDT by Frantzie (Remember when Bush was President and Americans had jobs (and ammo)?)
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To: bareford101
Are you serious? Lotrimin under the ol' chesticles? Gotta tell the missus about that one. She's, um....endowed for her height and weight, and has to wear underwire bras at work. The first thing she does when she comes in the door is yank it off because of the itching and sweating she endures during the summer months. She'll occasionally get a rash in what she calls the 'bra zone' because of it.


40 posted on 07/11/2009 10:24:23 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Ted Nugent for Attorney General '12. You Know You Want It.)
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