Heat Rash? - Louisville,KY

My DD gets heat rash very easily too. Hers is a little bumpy, but not itchy or blistered.

Does the rash linger, or does it go away as she cools off? I had a friend who, when she overheated, would get VERY red in the face and torso area. It looked like a rash, but it was really just how her body handled the heat.

If it IS heat rash... My DD's pediatrician gave me this advice...
~Dress her in looser/flowy clothing.
~Wipe her down with a cool rag when she seems to be overly warm.
~Make sure she is getting enough water.
She said that heat rash is caused when a child's body sweats to cool itself off, but their pores are too small to handle the amount of sweat. So the sweat can't come out right, and gets trapped (which is what forms the bumps.)

Good luck! :)

Heat rash i thought was not bumpy. It could be Molluscum Contagiosum or hives or something else. get a dr. to evaluate. The Itch baking soda powder gold bond is great, but not on the face for heat rash.

I suggest that it's still a heat rash. In my experience with several people and heat rash, none of them were bumpy and itching. Bumpy and itchy sounds more like hives to me. If one were allergic to heat, as I've heard some claim then perhaps they get the bumpy, itchy rash.

my son gets it and its a LITTLE bumpy, and red... usually blotchy. Never itchy. I just cool him down with cool water wash cloth, and sometimes if its really red, I will do a little dab of aquafor and keep in out of the sun for a while. He is 1. 2 of my kids so far have been getting the rash when hot. My third just gets rosy cheeks and sweats a lot.

It is probably heat rash. Heat rash does not "blister". And as for itching and "allergic to heat" - that is "cholinergic urticaria", which comes from a dysfunction of the hypothalamus. One of my daughters had that for a few years and it indeed is very uncomfortable, occurring at the slightest rise in body temperature -- even the type that happens from excitement and happiness! :-( Luckily, as with many who get that, it did go away.

When she got heat rash, it was very different from hives from food allergies, which would come and go and itch like mad. It was also very different from blistering which she got from allergic reactions to some plants (poison ivy and poison oak) or what happens from sunburn, and also quite different from the briefer but intensely stingy/itchy little bumpy hives/rash which she got from the cholinergic urticaria ("allergic to heat" as Marda referred to it).

Heat rash is considered "benign."

One thing - when I was little, I got itchy rashes from outdoors which adults called "heat rash". But, I now think it was itchy because I was reacting to allergens such as grasses and trees I was playing in.

Heat rashes aren't always bumpy or itchy, my little guy gets them, his ped confirmed it. Make sure she is well hydrated, keep water at her side in a sport's bottle all the time, and bring the rashes to her doctor's attention and see what he or she says.