Home Remedies for
Prickly Heat
1. Oatmeal bath is one of the very effective home remedies for prickly heat. Add some oatmeal powder in to your bath water.
2. The common treatment for prickly heat is to apply non-perfumed talcum powder or the specially made prickly heat powder for four to five times a day.
3. Take some neem (dongoyaro) leaves and make a paste by grinding with water. Apply this on sweat rashes. Neem has antibacterial properties and can heal the infectious blisters of advanced rash.
4. Apply aloe Vera gel on prickly heat to get relief from itching as well as to heal them. It contains excellent healing properties and will provide a cooling effect
5. Prepare a cooling compress for your
itchy and dreadful prickly heat. Dilute 1 tsp of baking soda into 1 cup of cold water. Soak a clean washcloth into the solution and squeeze it out to remove excess water. Apply the cloth to the rashes. While the water will reduce inflammation, the baking soda will work towards easing itching and
irritation. Repeat 4 to 5 times a day for best results.
6. Prepare a smooth paste by mixing
cornstarch or flour with water. Smudge the paste over the affected areas and allow it to dry for about ½ hour. Thereafter, go for a cold water bath and wash off the paste.
7. Rub an ice cube on heat rashes to get
quick relief from the burning sensation.
You can also use cold compress or ice
pack.
8.Take two tablespoons each of coriander powder and sandalwood powder. Add enough rose water to make a thick paste out of it. Apply the paste on your prickly heat rashes and let it dry. When dry, wash it off with cold water.
9. Dust your body with baking soda or
sandalwood powder. Their cooling effect heals up the heat rashes fast.
10. Gooseberry: Take an earthen vessel and fill with water, then put some gooseberries cut in pieces in the pot and cover it. Leave as it is for the whole night. On the next day, mash up the berries in the pot, then filter the water, add sugar or honey and drink. It removes heat from the body and
helps for digestive system.
11. Take henna powder and make a thick paste with cold water. Apply this to cool off the pricking heat rashes. However, this might leave the area reddened due to the coloring effect of henna. You can apply this
home remedy for the prickly heat rashes that would get covered with clothing.
12. Prickly heat needs to be cured internally too. That is why I advise you to drink lime juice at least three glasses per day. .
13. Take about five tablespoons of Fuller’s earth and add rosewater to make a paste. Apply this paste on prickly heat. Wash with cold water when it dries off.
14. Banyan tree barks also help in treating prickly heat effectively. Take dry barks of the banyan tree and grind them into a fine powder. Apply this!fuln fdr powder on affected areas for quick relief from prickly heat.
15. Apply watermelon pulp on the prickly heat to heal them.
16. Crush some leaves of Indian plum
(jamun) and add baking soda to it. Apply this to your prickly heat for instant relief.
17. Take some neem oil and add camphor extract to this. Massage the body parts with sweat rashes with this oil. Let it be there for about half an hour. Take bath with cool water.
18. Mix gramflour with water to make a
diluted paste. Apply this to your body
where you have prickly heat. Let it dry for about an hour. Have shower with cool water.
19. Put one camphor tablet in a small
bottle of coconut oil. Leave it overnight for the camphor to melt in the oil. Apply this oil n regular intervals on the rashes. This heals the rashes quick.
20. Honey is a great source for speeding up the healing process. Apply it over effected area.
21. Cucumbers are another source of water for body and coolness. Directly apply to affected skin, or eat it.
22. Mint tea will lower body temperature and speed up healing of prickly heat.

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