Does that make it prickly heat? If so what do I do about it?
[quote=“bob”]If so what do I do about it?[/quote]Keep away from Wolf Reinhold.
Get yourself some prickly heat talcum from your local pharmacy. It comes in an old-fashioned-looking tin and it works wonders.
[quote=“sandman”]Get yourself some prickly heat talcum from your local pharmacy. It comes in an old-fashioned-looking tin and it works wonders.[/quote]Do you know the name for that stuff in Mandarin? I want to get some and if it works well enough I think my dad would appreciate some as well. He’s been fighting prickly heat for years.
Sorry, I don’t. It’s just talc with some camphor extract in it, I believe, but it’s readily available in a predominantly gold-coloured tin with 50’s-ish drawings of a happy and presumably prickly heat-free man and woman on it. The man looks rather dashing – a bit like a young Gregory Peck. Very cooling (by which I mean, apply it to your balls with discretion!)
It could well be too late for that advice.
If I remember correctly, prickly heat is caused by clogged, sweaty skin pores (not unusual in Taiwan’s ghastly summer climate). Aside from the prickly heat powder, scrubbing it with a good bath brush and warm soapy water should help (just don’t overdo it - might hurt). I won’t interrogate you on the exact location of this “prickly” problem, but if it’s “down there”, then check out the kind of clothes (especially underwear) you are wearing. You want some very “breathable” to avoid sweating.
regards,
Robert
Oh grief NO, it could be tinea curris, if it is KEEP AWAY FROM POWDERS! Get it checked out and get some suitable cream. NO POWDERS IN TAIWAN!
Have a sauna once in a while. The hotter and wetter the better.
Thanks kids. I think I got it fingered out now.
“Fingered out”? Is there something you weren’t telling us about this prickliness bob? 
Yes but I can’t remember what it was.