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heat rash
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I keep getting really itchy little red dots on my elbows (the inside of them that is... elbow-pits or whatever...), and sometimes on my legs too after a hot bath or shower. It gets worse when I'm outside in the sun.
I think it's just heat rash, but am worried it could be exzcema (sp??) - but either way, does anyone know how I can either get rid of it or else stop it itching? Eg creams etc...
Thanks people
I think it's just heat rash, but am worried it could be exzcema (sp??) - but either way, does anyone know how I can either get rid of it or else stop it itching? Eg creams etc...
Thanks people
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lavender essential oil can be good as well, say 10 drops in the bath and don't have it so hot
some homeopathic remedies work quite well
if it eczema than its a different story
And hobbs how do I tell if it's eczema? I doubt it is but you never know...
Ooh, it's all cold!
I get a rash every summer from the ehat increase - however it gets much worse when I have the sun on my skin - once I went to Canada and the people I was stayigwith lived on a lake and had a row boat - I spent the whole day rowing inthe sun - the very next day I was covered everywhere in a red rash - they made me see a doctor and he said I'm allergic to bright sunlight - like a vampire I guess!!!
Anyway covering up and using good sunblock helps a lot.
I ohnly went shopping for a couple of hours, but i didnt half have a bad rash on my arms.
Lucky it didnt all blister, thats what the tablet box said it would do.
anyway... E45 always helps.
From what people have said I don't think it's eczema, just heat rash... I'll try all your various methods of solving it
this has been answered by tates - red, to see pics put eczema in to google and image search (get the sick bag ready)
Homoeopathic remedy Urtica can be good and try the tissue salts recommended by Faith. if you can avoid antihistamine/steroid creams then that is better. best to make sure you use "kind" toiletries
Best thing is to go to the docs as you don't know that it's not an allergy, prickly heat, heat rash or anything else. If it was prickly heat then the docs willl probably give you anti-histamines and anti-Inflammatory tablets.
Don't know if that would have this affect though.
I was actually getting on the boards to ask the same type of question. I've had problems with heat rash over the past year or so, and now that I think about it, I used to only have it rarely, but since I've been on birth control, it seems to be much more often. It was so bad on Friday that I decided to stay in on Saturday when all of my friends went to the beach.
I don't think it would be eczema. My best friend's got it and hers doesn't seem to flame up for any particular reason, such as sun or a hot shower...it just bugs the shit out of her all the time.
I'm not 100% sure, but Faith said heat rash and scratching can lead to eczema....I disagree! Isn't it a genetic disease? Something that's written in your genes? I could be wrong.