What to do if your face is flaky, dry and crumbly

Dry flaky skin on the face may be related to dry skin caused by physiological factors, or diseases such as ringworm and psoriasis, and it is recommended that treatment be carried out for different causes. 1. Physiological factors: dry environment in the autumn and winter seasons, or insufficient facial moisturizing, can lead to dry flakes on the face, need to do a good job of skin moisturizing, external moisturizing cream to improve. 2. Ringworm: mostly caused by dermatophytes, can be manifested as itchy, dry and flaky facial skin. It can be treated with topical antifungal drugs, such as miconazole nitrate cream, ketoconazole ointment and terbinafine hydrochloride cream. 3. Psoriasis: It is an inflammatory skin disease, manifested as inflammatory red papules on the skin, gradually expanding into red plaques, with gray-white scales on the surface. For psoriasis needs to be localized combined with systemic treatment, can follow the doctor’s instructions to use mometasone furoate ointment, tazarotene gel, tacrolimus ointment and so on topical, oral drugs commonly used are avitamin A, oral cyclosporine, methotrexate and so on if necessary. The face is dry and flaky, it is recommended to actively go to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor’s medication, avoid unauthorized use of medication.