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patpatstoo
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Everytime my daughter takes a warm shower or goes in the sun she breaks out in heat rash. She said it is unbearably itchy. Does anyone else have this problem. We wondered if it has something to do with the salt.
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LeighAnnNewton
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My 17 year old son has this same problem. This sounds crazy, but I put Crisco shortening on the rash and rub in well. IT WORKS!
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kross10911
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I have noticed in the summer if its hot out that a hot shower will agrivate my skin and I think it does have to do with the salt. Its really bad if I spend all day outside, I get a really bad rash around my ankles.
The crisco does sound odd to me, but im not going to knock a solution that works for someone else lol. If she wanted to try something similar to crisco but that probably smells better Id say try Coconut oil. Virgin urefined is best. It can be use for soooo many things. Its a common solution to diaper rash with the cloth diaper community and its good for cooking
The crisco does sound odd to me, but im not going to knock a solution that works for someone else lol. If she wanted to try something similar to crisco but that probably smells better Id say try Coconut oil. Virgin urefined is best. It can be use for soooo many things. Its a common solution to diaper rash with the cloth diaper community and its good for cooking
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Mommafirst
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My 11 year old son who doesn't have CF has this issue. Even half an hour in the sun on a hot day without sun screen and he'll have heat rash for a week. For some reason, sun screen does help prevent it.
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TonyaH
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I know this souds crazy, but when Andrew was three I thought he had the same problem...everytime he was in the sun or got warm he broke out in this huge rash. Coming to find out it was fifths disease and the sun and heat exacerbated the problem. Just a thought!
LittleLab4CF
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I wonder if the rash isn't Prickly Heat? When I used to get heat rash, an area, or sometimes my entire back or flank etc. developes hard pimple like, raspy hard bumps, like tiny plugged volcanoes, that itch like crazy. When I most often joined 15,000 close friends, on a cross Iowa (@ 500 miles) mid summer, week long bicycle rides or such. The cure was baking soda, sodium bicarbonate. Either rubbed on dry or sometimes, applied as a water based paste, the pimple like bumps react by weeping something thick and sticky, reducing the pimple looking bumps. An hour after, the rash had mostly resolved and a day later after three or so reapplied baking soda sessions, the rash, supposedly clogged sweat glands and possibly "oil glands" gushed sweat and metabolic toxins in the continued hot, humid hilly Iowa bicycle ride. As a tween, I took at least one and sometime two very hot, very long showers. Sometimes I suddenly would go weak in the shower and would sit down until the feeling went away. The possible souce, was dehydration and hydrating with kool Aid spiked with electrolytes, ended that problem. Still sometimes when I overdid it, maybe showering soon after exertion or being out in the heat and coming in for a shower I got prickly heat. Hope this helps.
LittleLab4CF
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A quick thought. Knowing only you live somewhere hot and sunny right now, I grew up in hot, arid high altitude blowing a hot dry wind. Poor thirst response, from what I understand is muted in CFers. Non CFers supposedly are already dehidrated when the thirst response kicks in so CFers are at an added disadvantage. Thankfully even children (7-8yrs) noticed a red blotch on my face and encouraged me to go home. Heat stroke, poorly named, presents rosey red blotches on the skin. They are itchy, but it also is usually followed by nausea and cold clammy skin. Not always though. I was off the scale one time and presented the rosey blotch with no other symptoms.
imported_Momto2
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If I am sweating steadily in the heat and dont wash the salt off every 3-4 hours, I break out in an itchy rash. I dont need to be exposed to the sun at all, it seems to be connected to the accumulation of sweat and salt on my skin. But that's just me ; )