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.
Another type of esophageal dilator is the Mercury-filled rubber bougie. The bougie comprises a rubber sheath filled with Mercury, and having a tapered tip. The bougie is inserted, tip-first, through a patient's mouth and into the esophagus, applying light pressure to enlarge the diameter of the stricture.. An esophageal dilation bougie according to claim 6 in which the mixture of liquid silicone rubber and silicone fluid consists of approximately 45% by weight liquid silicone rubber and approximately 55% by weight silicone fluid.