Eczema, dermatitis, urticaria is an allergic skin disease from a medical point of view, especially in summer, which is the peak season for eczema, dermatitis, urticaria and other skin diseases. The disease is produced by the interaction of many factors inside and outside: external climate, environment, physical or mechanical stimuli, such as plants, animals, chemicals, cosmetics, etc. In addition, lifestyle is closely related to people’s physical and mental health, many people do not know that bad habits in daily life can also lead to eczema, dermatitis, urticaria more and more serious. The authoritative dermatologists pointed out that: excessive scratching, hot water, diet, drug abuse is the cause of eczema, dermatitis, urticaria is not cured for several major causes.
1, allergic skin diseases include what diseases?
Allergic skin diseases are a common category of skin diseases, accounting for about 1/5 of all skin diseases, mainly urticaria, drug rash, contact dermatitis (cosmetics, diapers, lacquer dermatitis), eczema, atopic dermatitis, infant eczema, self-sensitivity dermatitis, multiple sun rashes, itchy rash, etc.
2. Why is the incidence of skin diseases significantly increased in summer compared to winter?
Since the beginning of summer, the incidence of skin diseases has increased significantly compared to winter. Summer is a beautiful season of renewal and greenery, but due to the floating dust and pollen flying around, it is easy to make skin allergies and cause various rashes, therefore, this season is especially prone to dermatitis, eczema, hives and other skin diseases. Therefore, after entering the summer, it is important to do a good job of preventing and treating skin diseases, and if patients feel that their skin has uncomfortable symptoms, they should go to the hospital for examination and treatment as soon as possible. In addition, bad habits can also lead to eczema, dermatitis, urticaria aggravation, in daily life should be noted.
3. How to prevent and treat facial cosmetic allergy?
Find the cause of the disease, quickly get rid of the contact and actively treat the symptoms.
(1) Stop using the currently used cosmetics and avoid contact with cosmetics with similar or related chemical composition to prevent recurrence.
(2) Internal medication: antihistamines, glucocorticoids, etc. depending on the severity of the disease.
(3) Topical medication: depending on acute, chronic, subacute; exuding, non-exuding; with or without infection to determine the dosage form.
(4) Recently, I found a lot of wind clusters on the skin, very itchy. From the Internet, my symptoms are somewhat like hives, how can I prevent this disease?
To prevent urticaria, you must first understand the factors that cause urticaria, only then can you achieve the purpose of prevention. The factors that cause urticaria are very complex and are summarized as follows.
(1) Infection is one of the most common factors. Such as bacterial infections, parasitic diseases, viral diseases, fungal infections and other factors.
(2) Drugs: Some drugs are also one of the important causes of urticaria that cannot be ignored, such as penicillin, streptomycin and other drugs.
(3) Certain diseases: Some visceral and systemic diseases can also cause urticaria, such as rheumatic fever, endocrine disorders, etc.
(4) Food: Urticaria can also occur after a person eats certain foods. Such as: fish, shrimp, crab, etc.. You should also do “smooth emotions, good living, clean diet, appropriate cold and warm”.
(5) mental factors: excessive mental tension or overexcitement can often cause urticaria.
In addition to the main factors mentioned above, cold, heat, sunlight, friction, pressure, mosquito stimulation, or inhalation of animal fur, pollen, etc. can also induce urticaria. Hives can also occur in women during menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy. In addition, during the illness should avoid strong scratching, should not be scalded with hot water, should not be casually external use of irritating drugs.
5, which bad habits can lead to aggravation of skin disease?
(1) excessive scratching.
Itching is the most common clinical symptom of skin disease, itchy skin will produce the desire to scratch, not scratching at all is unrealistic, but excessive scratching will aggravate the skin disease. Many patients for a moment of pain, scratching the itchy skin, until the skin bleeding, the more scratching the more itchy, the more scratching, forming a vicious circle. In fact, excessive scratching can lead to the aggravation of many skin diseases, so patients with skin diseases in the treatment, must control their hands, as far as possible to avoid scratching.
(2) Hot water scalding.
Many patients use hot water to scald the rash for a moment, although this can solve the itch for a while, but after the itch will intensify, especially acute eczema and other dermatitis, hot water scalding can increase capillary permeability, promote the release of a large number of allergic substances, resulting in exudation and erosion aggravation, making the condition worse.
(3) Use of alkaline detergents.
Many patients with skin diseases, such as chapped hands eczema patients have the habit of repeatedly using alkaline soap, washing powder or detergent to wash their hands. In fact, these detergents tend to lead to drier skin, making chafing and itching worse. The old pruritus with soap bathing can inhibit sebum secretion, making the skin drier, thus aggravating itching. Therefore, such patients can try oil-rich soap.
(4) Dietary indiscipline.
Some people can eat seafood, dog meat, beef and mutton, fish, shrimp, crab, nymphs and a variety of irritating foods, such as eating chili, pepper, garlic, cinnamon, leeks, etc., and induce eczema, urticaria and other allergic skin diseases, or make them worse. Therefore, for allergic people, should avoid spicy and stimulating products, diet should be light, can eat appropriate fruit, supplement multivitamins.
(5) Drug abuse.
It can be said that there are many phenomena such as aggravation of skin diseases due to drug abuse. For example, the topical use of corticosteroids to treat ringworm can lead to an increasingly widespread rash. The long-term topical use of hormones for facial seborrheic dermatitis can easily lead to stubborn and intractable hormone-dependent dermatitis, acute vesicular exudative eczema, and the abuse of ointment preparations can also lead to the spread of the rash and aggravation of exudation. The actual fact is that you can find a lot of people who have a lot of people who have chronic eczema. …He sought medical treatment everywhere, to no avail, with recurring attacks. Later, according to his condition, experts used Chinese medicine treatment, before and after three courses of Chinese medicine conditioning, the skin bright as before.
6, suffering from eczema, dermatitis for seven or eight years, the surface of the lesions erosion, oozing, with children and family members are afraid of close contact, please ask this skin disease is contagious?
The actual fact is that it is not contagious. Eczema patients should be relieved of mental stress, patients’ families or colleagues should care, close to them, help them, stabilize their emotions and keep their spirits happy, which plays a big role in the recovery of eczema patients.
7, atopic dermatitis, pediatric eczema should pay attention to what matters?
Atopic dermatitis, pediatric eczema and genetic allergy quality, avoid scratching, irritating food (fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish, beef, lamb and chicken, mango, lychee, strawberries, etc.), appropriate to reduce the number of baths and the use of soap, available mild, neutral lotion, moisturizer available when dry, and promote breastfeeding.
8.What tests can be done for allergic diseases?
Allergen test within the skin lesion, serum specific IgE determination, patch test and excitation test. The allergen test in the lesion requires discontinuation of antihistamines for at least 48 hours or hormones for at least one week, while the serum specific IgE test can be performed without discontinuation of medication.