Boys dry skin flakes may be physiological dry skin, should strengthen the skin moisturizing; may also be due to allergies, eczema, ringworm, hypothyroidism and other diseases caused by the need to clarify the cause of the drug treatment given.
1. Physiological dry skin:
When boys or girls have dry skin, the sebaceous gland secretion function will be reduced, and the skin will become dry and prone to flaky skin. It is recommended that boys can use skin care products with moisturizing effect, such as petroleum jelly and vitamin E cream, to improve dry skin after daily bathing.
Bathing too many times will be sebaceous membrane destruction after the skin will also be dry. Because the sebaceous membrane has the role of moisturizing and protecting the skin. This situation should be more moisturizing and hydrating skin care products, while reducing the number of baths, try to use warm water bath.
2. Disease-induced dry skin:
(1) Skin allergies, dry eczema, ringworm and other skin diseases: can lead to dry skin, flaky skin symptoms in boys, usually accompanied by itching, rashes and so on. Need to clarify the cause of the disease and then actively treat it.
Skin allergy can be used topical benadryl gel, oral loratadine tablets; dry eczema can be used topical dexamethasone cream, tacrolimus ointment, etc., and in severe cases, oral antihistamines can be used; ringworm is caused by fungal infections, and can be used topical ketoconazole ointment, combined with oral terbinafine, itraconazole and so on.
(2) hypothyroidism, diabetes and other systemic diseases: patients can also be accompanied by dry skin, flaky phenomenon, need to actively treat the primary disease, such as hypothyroidism patients can take oral levothyroxine sodium tablets; diabetic patients can take metformin, acarbose and other hypoglycemic drugs.