My son vigorously sweating

　It is the beginning of summer and the rainy season is here. And for the babies, it is the season of heat-rash has come! As is usual, red spots appeared on our baby’s neck overnight. Seeing red spots in baby’s smooth plump flesh, I was filled with pitiful feeling.
　When I was talking about it with mothers of the same motherhood-class, the most mothers said, “In my baby’s case, it gets worse and then it gets well, so I’m watching how it goes.” I understand well the feeling of not wanting to make a big thing out of it, yet in fact, this “Watching how it goes” is troublesome. Especially for the baby, it is often the case that this initial delay shall worsen the symptoms.
　A baby cannot speak. A baby lacks an ability to tell others of its own discomfort. And a baby cannot take care of own-self. When a baby wakes up sweating a lot and cannot sleep well at night, if a baby could control its head then it could possibly turn over to change its posture, but a baby is still immature that it could not yet wipe off its own sweat. Therefore, the mother should keep in mind that even if a very cautious mother was watching, there might be many cases that could not cope with the sudden change of the baby’s condition. The one who is facing the baby is being tested of one’s imaginative power from the very early stage. In fact, while watching how slight heat-rash or baby-eczema goes, in one hot sleepless night baby might scratch off and it might turn out to be a wound, and it might become “Impetigo” or much more serious symptoms.
　Then to avoid it, the important thing is the early treatment. There are many parents, who think that it is highly risky to take infants to hospital or give medication while symptoms are slight. And I would like to say that let us use our imaginative power not to “Make a bet that it may be alright doing nothing” but to “Doing something to avoid worsening.” As the external remedy prescribed for infants at the early stage are mostly non-steroid, it is important to start the treatment while it is possible to treat with non-steroid and prevent the worsening. In case the symptoms worsened and spread widely or inflammation is caused by scratch wounds, it will be necessary to use steroid, which is effective yet the side-effects are relatively strong. Steroid is known to have side-effect of causing growth failure and the affected part trouble such as skin-atrophy. It is better not to use even weak steroid to children, yet when symptom appears, it is better to consult a medical facility once while symptom is still slight rather than waiting too long and need to use steroid. However, of course when it is necessary, utilize steroid remedy under the guidance of the doctor and cure with “The minimum use“ shall consequently be the way to minimize the side-effects. It is better to restrain from avoiding too much of the use of steroid by their self-judgement that is common among the highly conscious mothers.
　And as the human body has an inherent ability to eliminate toxic substance, unless it does not exceed the tolerable amount, it is no need to worry about the harmful effect. This ability may be stronger in children than in adults. Growing to be an adult, as one is unconsciously ingesting large amount of not only medicines, additives and luxuries, one may be ingesting toxic substances beyond one’s eliminating ability, or because of the accumulated damage the eliminating ability itself might be impaired. Now that I myself am living in the modern times as an adult, I cannot definitely say that I am living a clean life, so I am utilizing KINSHOKU and striving to recover my own strength. Especially during my pregnancy, as I had to perform the elimination of both my own and the baby’s solely through my organs, I did have the solid sense of the damage accumulating in my body. In the coming MEGAHEALTH NEWS, I would like to narrate on some of the discoveries and hardships in the following columns. Well, I would like to end here this time. Please be careful of the summer skin trouble yourselves.