Hello everyone, I am Dr. Yuan, a professional dermatologist, guarding the skin problems of you and your family.
Many people often ask if there is any special recommendation from what if they sort out the list of regular drugs at home.
Dr. Yuan tells you here: Calamine lotion can enter your list completely.
Maybe many mothers haven’t heard of it.
In fact, calamine lotion is one of the commonly used external over-the-counter drugs in dermatology, especially for many skin problems of babies, which can be solved by her.
Come on, Dr. Yuan will talk to you about this [miraculous] calamine lotion today.
Inconspicuous calamine
The position is so big,
Speaking of the history of calamine, it can be traced back to more than N years ago.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, the antipruritic effect of calamine was already sealed by the Imperial Medicine Hospital.
In < < Waidan Materia Medica > >, it is also described as: [removing nebula and red, warming and astringing sores. It can be used to treat red eyes, nebula, rotten strings and wind eyes, ulcer and wet skin sores].
Hundreds of years have passed, and calamine, as an antipruritic panacea for various skin diseases, has been used to this day.
The Antipruritic Principle of Calamine Lotion
Speaking of calamine lotion, first we need to know her composition.
The most important component of over-the-counter calamine lotion is calamine, which is a mixture with zinc carbonate at the most and a small amount of calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, iron oxide and manganese oxide.
Calamine is prepared with zinc oxide, glycerin and distilled water to form calamine lotion sold on the market.
Some hospitals have homemade products, often called compound calamine lotion, which is added with menthol, so it will have obvious coolness after smearing!
Safe and non-stimulating
First-class antipruritic effect
Calamine has obvious astringent and antipruritic effects, on the one hand, because it belongs to mineral powder and has the effects of absorbing moisture and reducing external friction on skin; On the other hand, the pharmacological characteristics of calamine itself have just been mentioned.
Therefore, calamine lotion can be applied to acute dermatitis without exudation due to flushing, swelling, scorching heat, pruritus and skin diseases such as prickly heat, urticaria and summer dermatitis.
Of course, it is also a very safe choice for children or infants.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also included calamine lotion in the list of basic drugs for children.
On the other hand, a bottle of calamine lotion cost only 2.5 yuan in the first two years…
Probably because the word of mouth is too good, after all, it is safer, with many clinical applications and good results. The price has risen to 17.4 yuan.
However, after the price increase, they are still very close to the people.
Cheap and fine
Five Functions of Calamine Lotion
Deal with the prickly heat
At the beginning of prickly heat, it is usually red dots. If it is not carefully cared for, it will turn into small blisters and grow into white prickly heat.
No matter whether it is red prickly heat or white prickly heat, the baby will feel itchy and uncomfortable. At this time, take out calamine lotion to wipe it, and the pruritus can be effectively relieved.
Calamine sold in pharmacies is usually in large bottles. Mothers can pack it into small bottles and take it with them. Once the baby can’t stand itching, they will take it out immediately [for emergency].
Dealing with mosquito bites
Babies are the main target of mosquito bites. Once bitten, they will immediately swell up a small bag.
Although most mosquito bags can fade by themselves, they really itch!
If you constantly scratch and stimulate the skin, the mosquito bag will become more and more serious and eventually develop dermatitis.
This time calamine lotion can be used, rub on the skin cool, very comfortable, antipruritic effect is also bar.
More importantly, calamine preparation can be smeared repeatedly, avoiding the use of some hormone ointment.
The baby sweats a lot, and the skin [flooded] can also be used.
On hot days, sweat soaks, friction increases, and obvious erythema appears on the baby’s skin folds. If serious, erosion will occur.
If calamine lotion is used immediately before it breaks or comes out of water, it will have obvious astringent effect.
At the same time, the protective film formed by the powder on the skin surface will effectively slow down the friction of the baby’s skin.
Antipruritic urticaria
For the baby, urticaria can’t be caught, the more you catch the rash, the more. However, looking at the baby so uncomfortable, how to relieve itching also makes the mother very headache.
At this time, we might as well consider calamine lotion. It not only relieves itching quickly, but also has certain local anti-inflammatory effect, which is very effective in dealing with urticaria.
Especially for babies of small months old, they cannot take drugs orally, so calamine lotion for external use is especially important.
Subdue chickenpox
Everyone has learned the power of chickenpox, which is not only menacing, but also extremely itchy. Sick babies must not scratch, scratching is easy to cause skin infection.
Mothers may not know that calamine lotion is the first choice for external drugs to treat chickenpox. When the baby can’t stand itching, gently apply a layer to effectively relieve discomfort.
Of course, the above effects are equally effective for adults.
Proper use of calamine
Just look at these three points
Although calamine preparation is very safe for infants, it is not available under any circumstances. Mothers should pay attention to the following points:
Do not apply to damaged skin
Calamine lotion cannot be used to relieve itching for rash that breaks or exudes water.
Calamine lotion is applied to the skin and forms a film when the moisture completely evaporates.
But!
There is one of the biggest principles for dermatological topical drugs, which is easy to understand: [dry-to-dry, wet-to-wet, dry-to-wet paste]…
That is to say, for acute, broken or exuded skin, if a thick layer of powder-like film is applied, it is not conducive to the drying of the skin surface.
Don’t apply it too many times
Some mothers will have doubts. They said before that calamine lotion can be applied repeatedly. Why do they say not to apply it too many times now?
In fact, when the powder is smeared for the first time, the formed film is just in good condition. If it is smeared repeatedly, layers of films will be superimposed, which is too thick and not conducive to the recovery of rash.
The correct method is to wash off the traces left over from the previous application with warm water before each application, gently dry them, and then apply them for the second time.
Ensure that the powder is in direct contact with the skin every time, so as to give full play to the maximum effect of the drug.
The skin [peeling] of the affected part is a normal phenomenon.
1 ~ 2 days after calamine is smeared, the affected skin may appear [peeling], which is a normal phenomenon and mothers need not worry.
You should know that the baby’s skin will have the function of self-repair.
Of course, it is also very effective to use some clear moisturizing cream locally at this time!
Finally, remind parents that mint in [Compound Calamine] is not recommended for children. Remember to distinguish clearly when buying for your baby.
Finally, welcome everyone to pay attention to my public number Dr. Yuan Liaoskin Care. This is the public number of a professional dermatologist. You can learn a lot of professional skin care knowledge here, which can make you have good skin with less money! Please believe that Dr. Yuan knows your skin best ~
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