Ringworm is a kind of fungal infectious disease, can choose topical or oral antifungal drugs for treatment, and at the same time auxiliary general treatment.
1. General treatment: pay attention to personal hygiene, actively treat the original disease, such as tinea pedis and tinea cruris. Avoid scratching the affected area to prevent self-infection and secondary infection. Try not to eat or eat less easy to sweat and stimulating food, such as chili, raw onion, raw garlic, etc., keep the hand skin dry.
2. Medication
(1) Topical antifungal drugs: commonly used drugs are ketoconazole cream, bifonazole cream, luliconazole cream, etc. These drugs are the most widely used topical antifungal drugs in clinical practice. Broad-spectrum antifungal drugs such as Butenafine and Terbinafine can also be used, which can interfere with the early biosynthesis of ergosterol in fungal cells and play the role of inhibiting and killing fungi.
(2) Oral antifungal drugs: such as itraconazole, terbinafine, etc., its treatment course is short, easy to use and low recurrence rate. If secondary bacterial infection, can be combined with antibiotic treatment, such as erythromycin, penicillin and so on. However, itraconazole oral should pay attention to the impact on liver function, the specific use of the above drugs should be under the guidance of a professional doctor.
Tinea versicolor patients are recommended to go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor for standardized treatment, do not take medication without authorization, to avoid adverse consequences.