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prickly heat

NOUN
  1. obstruction of the sweat ducts during high heat and humidity

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  • = -- The treatment of prickly heat, occurring in hot weather, consists in avoiding heat as much as possible and sponging the surface with cold water, and then dusting it with some simple powder, as starch or flour, or better, borated talcum. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)
  • We are all suffering from prickly heat and the insects and the lack of any fresh food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clumps of itchy or prickly tiny red bumps on the skin that appear with hot humid weather in tropical countries is called miliaria or prickly heat in layman's terms.
  • Irritated summer skin is usually caused by clogged sweat ducts, a condition called prickly heat or miliaria, or by exposure to poison ivy, oak or sumac.
  • If you are overweight or sweat easily you are more likely to have prickly heat.
  • We are all suffering from prickly heat and the insects and the lack of any fresh food. Times, Sunday Times
  • Prickly heat is a very itchy red skin rash, causing a prickling or burning feeling.
  • Is there a remedy for prickly heat? Times, Sunday Times
  • The most common type, known as prickly heat, results when sweat escapes into the epidermis.
  • How does summer eliminate hot prickly heat?
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