Streptoderma: treatment, symptoms, predictions

Streptodermia is the common name of a group of diseases caused by streptococci.

The disease can be determined by the appearance on the face, hands, buttocks and legs of spots of different diameters. Usually they have a pink color and a peeling surface. The appearance of such formations on the body is an important reason to contact a dermatologist.

Streptoderma, whose treatment, with late diagnosis, can last for a long time, does not affect either the hair or nails. It is transmitted only by direct contact with the patient, develops gradually.

The first period is incubation. It usually lasts after contact for not more than a week, after which it passes into the acute phase.

Acute streptoderma, the treatment of which is recommended to begin as quickly as possible, manifests itself in the form of the appearance on the skin of pink spots gradually turning into pus filled with pus. Skin can be affected superficially or deeply. With a superficial lesion, the pus with the pus opens quickly and subsequently does not leave traces on the skin. At deep - even after healing of wounds on a body scars or ulcers can remain. That is why when setting this diagnosis, especially when there is streptoderma on the face, treatment should be started immediately.

Acute streptoderma, whose treatment is started with a delay, can develop into a chronic form. It can be recognized by appearance, especially in the region of the shins, large, with sharply outlined edges of the spots framed by the "rags" of the epidermis.

Gradually the spots grow into pus-filled large bubbles, which after opening leave behind dense brownish-green crusts. When they fall off, the skin does not have yellow-gray spots on which pus can flow.

Streptoderma, whose treatment for some reason is not started on time, can develop into eczema. In this case, the precise contours of the spots blur out, their pattern becomes indistinct, patterned.

Women and young children are most often struck by streptoderma on the face. Treatment of this disease, which is often called ordinary lichen, is usually limited to external therapy. Since the disease is characterized by the appearance on the face of flabby spots with the presence of gray-green crusts framed by erythema, the external treatment of the affected areas helps restore the integrity of the skin.

Ointments for streptodermia appoint, focusing on the type of disease and the characteristics of the patient.

Most often, after opening the pustules, the following formulations are recommended:

O Ointment with xerophore;

· Konkov's ointment or other complex preparations;

· Fastin;

· Levomycol;

· Oxycort;

· Gyioxysone;

· Other ointments formulated with hormones or antibiotics.

In addition, liquid medications help:

· Methylene blue;

· Diamond green;

· Alcohol solution of propolis;

· Solutions of colloidal silver , etc.

In the case of severe course, streptoderma treatment involves a complex. In this case, along with ointments and solutions, the doctor can prescribe injections of penicillin, tablets or injections of tetracycline, monomycin or oleandomycin.

Usually this treatment is quite enough. However, with an atypical course of the disease, combined medications such as amoxiclav can be prescribed.

However, with streptoderma, treatment alone, not prescribed by a dermatologist, can not bring benefits, but harm. Improperly selected drugs are able to develop the resistance of the pathogen to them. Then the treatment is many times complicated and can become completely ineffective.

In addition to therapeutic ointments and other preparations, some patients are prescribed ultraviolet irradiation, snow of carbonic acid, treatment with laser or magnetic beams.