How to Treat Heat Rash With Home Remedies

Heat rash, characterized by small red bumps, itching and swelling, is a skin condition that generally occurs during hot summer months. While most heat rashes clear up within 7 days, some people suffer from it from it much longer. Excessive sweating contributes to this problem and the ensuing itching can cause misery and supreme discomfort. Relief can be found, however, through the use of simple home remedies.

Things You'll Need

• To keep your skin cool
• To minimize excessive perspiration

Instructions

1. Take up to three cold baths or showers a day when you have heat rash and air dry your body afterwards. Avoid slathering on greasy lotions, as they may worsen your condition.

2. Combine a cup of water with a teaspoon of baking soda, and then soak a washcloth in it. Apply it to the affected areas throughout the day for 10-15 minutes at a time. This should ease the itchiness associated with heat rash.

3. Instead of throwing away watermelon pulp, put it to good use in helping to treat your heat rash. Refrigerate the pulp to make sure it is nice and cold, and then rub it on the parts of your body where the rash is occurring to cool off your skin.

4. Cornstarch is a reliable method for treating heat rash. Combine it with enough water to make a paste and put it on the area where your rash has broken out and keep it on long enough to allow it to dry. Soak a towel in cold water and then wipe the cornstarch paste from your body.

5. Drink four glasses of lime juice daily to help get rid of your heat rash. As a matter of fact, this may be a good practice to do during hot months, to prevent heat rash from occurring at all.

6. Keep an ice pack available all summer long, in the event of heat rash. Apply it to itchy, swollen areas of your skin every few hours to cool things down.

7. Watch what you wear. Clothing that is too tight and made from materials like nylon will cause your body to sweat more, which is the chief reason you get heat rash in the first place. Wearing loose, cotton clothing will keep you much cooler and prevent your heat rash from worsening.