The common causes of dry and flaky skin on the legs are physiological causes, and pathological causes such as lack of fat dermatitis, psoriasis, ichthyosis, etc., which need to be treated with appropriate medications such as loratadine, dinexed cream, emollient creams, etc. for the specific diseases.
1. Physiological reasons: due to lack of water, sebum secretion reduction leads to dry skin, dry skin flakes, at this time you need to give topical moisturizing cream, can gradually relieve the symptoms.
2. Pathological causes:
(1) lack of seborrheic dermatitis: mainly due to a variety of factors lead to the skin loss of water, oil reduction and inflammatory reaction, there will also be dry flaky skin on the legs, accompanied by itching, at this time, you need to avoid triggers, and give the topical moisturizing cream, glucocorticoid cream, such as Dinocap, etc., and at the same time, take antihistamines such as loratadine and so on.
(2)Psoriasis: a kind of erythematous scaly disease caused by many factors, there will also be dry skin and flakes on the legs, accompanied by itching symptoms, at this time, you can use topical glucocorticoid ointment such as hydrocortisone butyrate, vitamin D3 derivatives such as carboxytriol, etc., and you can take oral medication such as Avicenna, methotrexate, and other medications.
(3) Ichthyosis: usually related to heredity, clinically manifested as dry skin with ichthyosis-like scales as the characteristics of the disease, there will also be dry skin on the legs flaky symptoms, at this time can be given to the topical emollient creams, urea ointment, etc., and if necessary, can be combined with oral drugs such as Avian A. But the above methods can only alleviate the symptoms, can not be cured.
Dry skin flakes on the legs may also have other causes, it is recommended to go to the hospital, clear cause, symptomatic treatment, drugs need to be used in accordance with medical advice.