There are many types of rashes that could affect your skin. Each kind of rash could have different effects. Some of them could make you feel more uncomfortable than the others, while some could be more painful and others could even make you worry about them.
Heat rash occurs when the body needs to sweat, such as when the weather is hot or when you are doing physical activities and the pores are blocked, due to various reasons. As the sweat cannot be eliminated from the body, heat rash might be ignited.
Heat rash can affect both adults and children and all racial groups. For example, the mildest type of heat rash, miliaria crystallina affects about 9% of the newborn babies, and 30% of the adults who are exposed to hot weather, such as those who live in the tropical regions of the World.
Sometimes, the heat rash can easily be confused with a cluster of pimples.
Heat rash is also known as miliaria or prickly heat. Based on how severe the rash bout is and how affected are the sweat ducts, the heat rash can be classified into: