Eczema or allergic dermatitis is a common allergic skin disease with a high incidence, a prolonged and easily recurring course, and a great deal of patient suffering. Treatment of eczema or atopic dermatitis is generally based on antihistamines plus topical preparations, and in severe cases, oral hormones. However, the general care of eczema or atopic dermatitis is sometimes more important than the treatment itself. When treating eczema or allergic dermatitis, the following should be noted.
1. Avoid stimulation
Common irritations include soaps, soaps, cleansers, laundry detergents, and other chemical agents. In addition, even hot water is also a bad stimulus.
Some patients often use hot water, salt water or pepper water scalding, think scalding is very comfortable. It is not known that the scalding of eczema or allergic dermatitis itself is a great stimulus, especially in the acute phase of the consequences are more serious.
Therefore, one of the first issues of eczema or allergic dermatitis treatment is to avoid stimulation. After resolutely avoiding the above-mentioned stimuli, only then is the basis of treatment.
2, avoid scratching
The actual fact is that you will be able to get a lot more than just a few of the most effective and most effective. The patient himself may have such an experience, when it is not very itchy, scratch on a scratch, the result is the more scratch the more itchy, the more itchy scratch. Finally, you have to scratch to relieve the hate.
However, this scratch not only does not cure the disease, but also aggravates the condition. The scratching will destroy the original damaged skin barrier function, leading to the aggravation of eczema or dermatitis. And sometimes even after a period of treatment, the condition has been improved, may be a scratch to nullify the effect of the previous treatment.
Therefore, avoiding scratching is one of the primary issues in treating eczema or dermatitis, and it’s important!
At this point, patients will often ask me, “What do you want me to do if I don’t scratch? The itch is indeed unbearable, but the itch can be controlled, after standard treatment, taking medication or rubbing, the itch will be reduced. It is a good idea to keep the itch from scratching, and the treatment on top of that will be better.
The main points to note in the treatment of eczema or atopic dermatitis
It is easy for eczema or dermatitis itself to recur, and treatment can be a long process, and the treatment varies from person to person, from stage to stage, and from site to site. The specific treatment method may vary greatly. The actual fact is that there is a fundamental to follow.
1, after controlling the symptoms of the rule to reduce drugs
The most important issue that should be paid attention to after controlling the symptoms of eczema or dermatitis is the rule to reduce the medication, and the most common mistake is to stop the medication immediately after the symptoms have improved. This kind of treatment irregularity is an important factor that causes eczema or dermatitis to recur. Therefore, the most important thing to remember about eczema or dermatitis treatment is that it must be reduced regularly.
There are two ways to reduce medication
①Rule to reduce the number of medication
You can gradually reduce the number of times you use your medication each day. At first, the topical medication is usually twice a day, if the symptoms are controlled for a period of time, usually about a week, you can change the topical medication to once a day, then maintain a period of time, then change to once every 2 days, and so on. Oral medication is generally started once a day, and can be changed to once every two days after the symptoms are under control, and so on.
The course of treatment varies depending on the severity of the patient’s condition, and if the condition is mild, the treatment can be maintained for about 2 weeks. If the disease is more severe, you need to maintain the treatment for about 1-3 months.
②Use mild drugs instead of strong drugs
Another aspect of rule reduction is to gradually replace strong medications with mild, non-irritating medications.
Eczema or dermatitis treatment may start with strong medications such as hormones, which should be replaced down with mild, non-irritating medications as soon as symptoms are controlled. Hormones should not be used for long periods of time and over large areas. Mild and non-irritating medications are mostly used with hearthstone, but also homemade medications such as comfrey oil.
2.Symptoms if repeated rules add medication
During the period of medication reduction, symptoms may recur. Repeated disease is not terrible, what is terrible is the indiscriminate use of drugs, blind medication.
The correct method of medication is that if the recurrence occurs during the reduction of medication, the dose can be increased to the dose of the last reduction of medication. An example may be more graphic.
For example, a patient who had good symptom control when using once a day, reduced the dose to once every 2 days after using for about a week. However, when the dose was reduced to once a day, the symptoms were found to be recurrent. At this time, the dose should be increased to once a day, and the maintenance time should be longer than a week. If the symptoms recur after the dose is reduced, it means that the course of treatment is not enough. Therefore, once the symptoms are under control, the maintenance period can be changed to 2 weeks before considering a reduction.
If the eczema or dermatitis patient can do the above, eczema or dermatitis treatment is not difficult and can be cured very quickly.