From all types of diathesis the young parents most often should deal with exudative and catarrhal diathesis though there are also other its types. This borderline which is characterized by skin rashes is confused sometimes with other reactions having similar symptoms.
It is required to you
- - diary of food;
- - hygrometer;
- - thermometer;
- - instructions to medicine which you take or give to the child.
Instruction
1. The heat-spots and an intertrigo which developed at the kid cannot but disturb parents. Examine rash, define places where it developed. At exudative and catarrhal diathesis skin quite often reddens, begins to be shelled, forming scales. Not only an open part of the head, but also hairy is surprised. At a potnichka small heat-spots act, they can be located on all body.
2. Pay attention to conditions in which there is a child. Potnitsa usually arises at too high temperature or big humidity. Check conditions on the thermometer and a hygrometer. Look whether not too you muffle up the child and whether in time you carry out hygienic procedures. Potnitsa will quickly disappear as soon as you normalize humidity and temperature. Diathesis at the same time will not disappear.
3. Remember then the child had rashes. It can be introduction of a feeding up, mix change, the medicine use. If the kid had rashes which cause you precisely recorded, it does not mean at all that diathesis was shown. There can be also a typical allergy.
4. It is very important to know in what quantity the ""harmful"" product got to the child's organism. For example, you absolutely quietly gave to the kid an orange segment half in day, and no rashes existed. When he accidentally ate two segments - rash developed. At a typical allergy next time when the child eats a small amount of a dangerous product, any rash can not be. At diathesis it will arise anyway as the nature of its emergence other. It is frequent only blood test by immunoglobulin can distinguish a typical allergy from diathesis. At a typical allergy it is raised, in at exudative and catarrhal diathesis most often it appears normal.
5. Whenever possible establish a heredity factor. The predisposition to any given diseases is quite often descended. Interview the immediate family whether family members had similar reactions and on what.
6. Remember that you ate during pregnancy and feeding with a breast. Exudative and catarrhal diathesis quite often arises if mother ate incorrectly, ate in a large number of coffee, citrus and some other products. To define on what there is a reaction at your kid, keep a diary of food. Write down in it what products were eaten by you (if you nurse) or the kid what was reaction.
7. Address the pediatrician. Tell him everything and about hereditary factors, and about products which the kid, and about living conditions eats. All this will allow it to define correctly a condition of your child and to take measures. In certain cases to define, than diathesis is caused, the special analysis is required.