Prevention of heat rash is the best treatment for heat rash. Avoid hot environments and take refuge in cooler environments. Air conditioners, oscillating fans, and limiting physical activity in a hot environment can help prevent heat rash.
Borrowing from French bougie â(âwax candleâ), after the Algerian city Bougie, and the tapered, hand-dipped candles it made. bougie â(plural bougies) (medicine) A tapered cylindrical instrument for introducing an object into a tubular anatomical structure, or to dilate such a structure, as with an esophageal bougie.
From Dorland's, 2000. filiform bougie a bougie of very slender caliber, generally used for exploration of small areas, such as sinus tracts, where false tracts could be easily created. The entering end is of smaller diameter, and the following end is threaded to allow for attachment of a following bougie. following bougie a flexible, tapered bougie attachable to a filiform bougie and allowing progressive dilatation without creation of false tracts. Hurst b's a series of mercury-filled tubes of progressive diameter used for dilatation of the cardioesophageal region. Maloney b's a series of mercury-filled tubes of progressive diameter, having cone-shaped tips. soluble bougie a bougie composed of a substance that becomes fluid in situ.