Chicken skin refers to keratosis pilaris, ichthyosis and chicken skin are two different diseases. With different causes, different symptoms, different treatment methods and other differences.
1. Different causes: ichthyosis is a group of keratinization disorder skin disease characterized by dry skin with fish scale-like scales, perikeratosis is a chronic follicular keratosis, which may be related to autosomal dominant inheritance, vitamin A deficiency, endocrine factors.
2. Symptoms are different: ichthyosis patients are mainly manifested as dry, flaky skin and ichthyosis-like lesions, the color of the lesions from white, gray to brown, the symptoms will be aggravated in the winter, in the summer will be better, perifollicular keratosis is manifested as a normal skin color or reddish pimples, chicken-skin-like appearance, the skin has a sense of roughness that may be aggravated at puberty.
3. Treatment is different: ichthyosis patients are mainly based on drug treatment, commonly used drugs are urea cream, propylene glycol, cholesterol and so on. Keratosis pilaris generally do not need treatment, if the symptoms are more obvious patients, can be under the guidance of the doctor, the use of tazarotene gel, salicylic acid ointment and other drugs with exfoliation, anti-keratosis treatment.
It is recommended that patients go to a regular hospital, under the guidance of the doctor for relevant examinations, according to the specific results of the examination, to take targeted treatment.