The doctor finally gave up and told her to go home and soak the wound in coal oil twice a day and pray for healing. The remedy worked. As I suspected, a detailed search of the book did not show coal oil as a recommended remedy for any malady. I now believe use of the concoction was for purely psychological reasons.
Prickly heat causes an itchy rash of small red raised red spots with a prickling or stinging sensation. Prickly heat usually affects parts of the body covered by clothes, such as the back, abdomen, neck, upper chest, groin or armpits.
1 A prickly heat rash is a red, pimply eruption that your baby can easily get in hot and humid weather. 2  This kind of climate may cause your baby to sweat a lot, causing his skin pores to clog. 3  If the sweat can't get out then a prickly heat rash develops.ue to the warm, damp and humid climate, skin infections become very common during the monsoons. Your baby's delicate skin is very vulnerable to skin problems. If these problems aren't checked in time, they could get worse. This is why it's important to recognise skin infections early and treat them.