[blparent] Persistent Heat Rash

[Robert Shelton]

Could be a fungal infection.  You might try an OTC like Tinactin.  Very mild -- maybe just treat a spot and see how it goes.  If that doesn't help, you probably need to take her in for a visit to the doc.  There are zillions of things that can cause this -- none of them much more than a nuisance.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com] 
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 10:23 PM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: [blparent] Persistent Heat Rash

Hi.  I’m wondering if any of you can help me.  My daughter has gotten a persistent heat rash on her back, and some on her sides over the rib cage.  I’ve tried extra washing.  I’ve tried Lubriderm lotion, which is free of dyes and perfumes.  I’ve tried Noxeema, Vaseline, Cortisone-10, and baby powder.  I’ve encouraged my daughter to sleep topless so her skin can breathe.  The rash itches, and then my daughter scratches at it and gets it all scabbed up.  Is there a remedy I’m missing?

Jo Elizabeth

I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.--Stephen Jay Gould