How to treat yellow tumors

Yellow tumor is a kind of lipid metabolism disorder disease, its mechanism is lipoprotein deposition, which can lead to adverse effects due to skin appearance changes, so the following comprehensive treatment is needed: 1, drug treatment: lipid-lowering drugs can be used to promote lipoprotein metabolism, reduce and eliminate the lipoprotein deposition condition. Those who have increased cholesterol mainly need to use statins, such as simvastatin; those with elevated triglycerides can choose fibrates, commonly used fenofibrate. Other drugs such as niacin and sodium alginate can also be used. Some Chinese herbs such as zedoary, thuja, he shou wu, etc., also have the function of lowering blood lipids. 2.Local treatment: For smaller tumors, laser cautery, chemical corrosion, dry ice or liquid nitrogen freezing, electrocautery and other measures can be chosen to achieve the treatment purpose by making the tumor necrotic and fall off. Larger yellow tumors can be surgically removed. As yellow tumor is a benign lesion, it can be temporarily observed if the tumor does not affect the appearance and life much. 3.Treatment of primary disease: For secondary yellow tumor, it is also necessary to treat its primary disease, such as chronic alcoholism, hypothyroidism, diabetes, gout, pancreatitis, myeloma, etc. There are more treatment methods for yellow tumor, and the specific choice needs to be decided after the dermatologist’s interview.