Causes and treatment of pityriasis in humans

Peregrine lichen, also known as multicolored lichen, is a fungal disease that affects the stratum corneum. Why does this ailment arise, how does it manifest itself and what features does the treatment of pityriasis deprive people of? Let's understand.

Causes of the disease

Absolutely reliable data on the causes of the appearance of pityriasis is not revealed to date. Often this ailment occurs in those people who for a long time are in a damp and hot climate. But at the same time it is wrong to say that only with the stay in the sun is the appearance of a multi-colored lichen. So, among the factors provoking the disease are:

• Frequent visits to the solarium;
• oily skin;
• Decreased immunity against pregnancy or vitamin deficiency;
• Strong emotional shock;
• Excessive sweating;
• Often the use of antibacterial cosmetics;
• Diseases of the endocrine system (primarily diabetes mellitus);
• Oncological diseases, tuberculosis.

Often teenagers, and also men, who have not reached the age of thirty, are prone to pity-like deprivation.

Symptoms

The characteristic features of the colored lichen are brownish-yellowish spots on the human body . The first spots, as a rule, are localized near the hairline and begin to grow with time. Some of them, merging into one with one another, affect significant areas of the skin.

If you do not take any measures aimed at treating this ailment, then gradually the spots will change color and become coffee. For this reason, the disease is called multicolored lichen. The affected areas of the skin are not itchy, but they have an even, flaky surface and look very unattractive.

Stains can appear absolutely on any part of the body, but more often they appear on the abdomen, back, neck, chest, shoulders. In a very rare case, pityriasis can even be found in the face area.

Diagnostics

Before thinking about how to cure pityriasis, you need to make sure that this disease takes place. To do this, you should contact a specialist for an accurate diagnosis. To diagnose varicoloured varicoloured use a fluorescent lamp of Wood. It is necessary to illuminate her affected areas, and in case of disease, the lamp will glow golden or pinkish.

Balser's test will also help to identify pungent lichen in children and adults. The essence of the method is that an iodine solution is applied to the affected area. The spots of the colored lichen, when interacting with iodine, will change their color to a darker color.

Medication

If there was an otaroid lichen, treatment, preparations of an antifungal property in which are an integral component, should be started immediately. In this case, it will be possible to overcome the disease quickly and easily enough.

Treatment of pityriasis in humans is assigned individually in each case. So, at an early stage of the disease, when the foci of lesions are still insignificant, antifungal ointments will help get rid of the disease , the most effective of which are the preparations Klotrisal, Ketodin, Nizoral. Rub the ointment twice a day for 2-4 weeks.

How to get rid of pityriasis, characterized by the defeat of a large area of the skin surface? In such cases, the ingestion of drugs such as Nizoral, Orungal, and Fluconazole is indicated.

To remove the fungus from the scalp will help wash the hair with special therapeutic shampoos, including "Nizoral", "Dermazol", etc. At the end of the treatment with pityriasis, antifungal preparations for restoring the natural color of the skin may be given erythematous doses of UV irradiation.

For several months after the end of treatment to avoid the possibility of secondary infection of the place of the former rash, twice a week, wipe with salicylic or boric alcohol.

Tablets from pityriasis lichen

The taking of tablets is advisable only when the disease is started. Consider some effective drugs.

Well-established drug such as "Griseofulvin", produced in the form of tablets. The peculiarity of this medicine is that it is necessary to take it with vegetable oil, and it can be done both with food and after eating. The daily intake for adults is 8 tablets. Take this remedy before your recovery. However, it is important to make sure there are no contraindications.

Another medication worthy of attention is the drug Ketoconazole. The medicine must be taken solely on the prescription of the doctor and under his supervision. Dosage of the drug "Ketoconazole" depends on the severity of the disease and is usually 200-400 mg per day. The same applies to the duration of treatment, which can vary from 4 to 8 weeks.

Sulfuric ointment

Very often, treatment of pityriasis in humans is carried out using such a simple, inexpensive, and at the same time effective medicine, like sulfuric ointment. When applied to the skin, it has an antimicrobial and antiparasitic effect on the affected areas.

With the diagnosis of "lichen otrubevidny", treatment, ointment based on sulfur in which will be the main drug, will last 5 days. In order to achieve the desired effect, the medication should be applied in a thin, even layer on the affected skin twice a day.

Important Activities

In order for the treatment of pityriasis in humans to lead to recovery more quickly, it is very important to comply with a number of requirements. So, bed and underwear must be changed daily. In this case, all things are important to expose to boiling, and after carefully ironing - only in this way it is possible to achieve the destruction of the fungus spores causing this disease.

During the treatment the patient should wear only those clothes and use only that bed linen, which are made of natural fabrics. Great importance is given to maintaining personal hygiene. So, every day you should take a shower or a bath, using baby soap or other mild detergents.

It is also necessary to take care of the use of baby powder or talc, which eliminate the excessive moisture of the skin, which is a favorable factor for the emergence and development of fungal infections.

Features of nutrition of patients

Patients with pityriasis must undergo certain restrictions in the diet. So, you should minimize or completely abandon the use of simple carbohydrates. Sugar can, for example, replace a small amount of honey. Instead of baking, you can eat bread containing bran.

In the diet should be present fruits and berries, rich in complex carbohydrates, as well as fresh vegetables, which contain an increased content of dietary fiber and fiber. Also in the patient's menu there should be no thermo-processed dairy products.

Abnormal lichen: folk treatment

Traditional medicine has a huge number of recipes that will help quickly and effectively eliminate pityriasis. Consider what ointments can be prepared on the basis of simple and affordable means.

• Fresh sorrel grind and mix the resulting gruel in equal proportions with sour cream or fatty cream. Lubricate the affected area within 10 days.
• Dry grass fragrant rue milled into powder, add soft butter in a ratio of 1: 3. Treat deprive twice a day.
• Mix powder from dry St. John's wort (10 g) with Vaseline (40 g). The resulting mass daily lubricate the affected skin for days.
• Turn into fresh mashed potatoes, add in equal quantities birch tar and butter. Thoroughly mix everything until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. Use as compresses, which apply to the affected areas of the skin for 40 minutes.

Herbal Treatment

Healing herbs perfectly improve immunity and promote a speedy recovery. Decoctions and infusions can be used either inside or outside. Let's consider some recipes.

• Roots and seeds of sorrel (1 tbsp.) Pour cold water (200 ml), send to the stove and cook for 10 minutes. The resulting liquid should be allowed to stand for 1 hour, then strain it and use it as a basis for the compress.
• Mix in the same proportion of the sequence and eucalyptus. The resulting mixture (3 tbsp.) Is covered in a glass jar and poured with boiling water (800 ml). All this is sent to a water bath for 40 minutes. After the time the broth cool, strain and apply compresses.
• Running otrebovidny deprive will help cure such grass, as immortelle. It is necessary inflorescence immortelle (40 g) pour boiling water (0.5 liters) and let it brew for 2 hours. Strain and lubricate the diseased skin.

Preventive measures

Unfortunately, very often after a full recovery, patients with pitybearing deprive complain that the disease has returned again. Indeed, with the recurrence of this disease, a significant number of people are facing. In order to try to avoid these troubles, it is necessary to adhere to certain rules:

• From time to time in the spring and summer period, wipe the skin with slightly acidic water, in which you must first add citric acid or vinegar.
• It is important once in 3-4 weeks to use antifungal hygiene products, including shampoos, gels, ointments.
• Periodically conduct disinfection of clothing, bed and underwear in a 2% soap / soda solution. After such treatment, all things must be carefully ironed.

There are many methods that allow you to get rid of such an ailment as lichen otrubrious. Treatment, ointment and tablets in which are integral components, it is recommended to supplement with folk methods of fighting this disease.