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prickly heat

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

How To Use prickly heat In A Sentence

  • My doctor told me that it was prickly heat, which rather surprised me. M.E. and You - a self-help plan
  • 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.
  • Avoid man-made fibres which could make prickly heat worse. The Sun
  • Even if your pediatrician peels 13 layers of clothing off your baby in order to diagnose his prickly heat rash and then submerses him in a vat of cool water to prevent him from spontaneously combusting, you should put a hat on that baby. While we’re waiting « knitnut.net
  • Avoid man-made fibres which could make prickly heat worse. The Sun
  • I am so big, grow prickly heat possibly still?
  • The juice of the nettle is good, she says, for a variety of ailments - arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, allergic rashes and 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 rash that appears in hot, humid weather.
  • 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.
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