Summer, with its sweltering heat, is a season that extremely tests the body’s ability to regulate and immunize. The main changes are characterized by an increase in UV radiation, rising temperatures and humidity, in addition to the start of a proliferation of various insects. As a result, various skin diseases will also arrive as expected, causing many people to be annoyed.
1. Prickly heat
Prickly heat is due to the high temperature and humidity in the environment, sweating too much, can not evaporate in time, resulting in sweat hole blockage, sweat stagnation or rupture, some manifestation of small rice grain size superficial blisters, easy to rub broken, light flaking and healing, mostly in infants, pregnant women, called white prickly heat; some are scattered red papules, but not related to hair follicles, called red prickly heat, mostly in children, some small pustules, called pus prickly heat. To prevent the occurrence of prickly heat, we should pay attention to the ventilation and cooling of the indoor environment to avoid excessive humidity and high temperature; dress generously to reduce sweating and facilitate the evaporation of sweat, and change clothes regularly; try to keep the skin dry, wipe sweat with a dry towel, obese people, infants and mothers should take a bath regularly, but do not use cold water, wipe dry and put prickly heat powder. Treatment can be done with cool, astringent and antipruritic drugs. If pustular prickly heat occurs, go to the hospital to do comprehensive treatment.
2. Sunburn
Sunburn is caused by sudden excessive sun exposure, which is manifested as erythema, blisters can be formed in severe cases after 3 to 6 hours of sun exposure, and there is obvious burning pain and general discomfort. Prevention of sunburn should first be avoided in strong sunlight exposure, should be gradual, gradually increase the amount of exposure. The treatment is generally symptomatic and can be topical with protective agents such as various emollients, glycolic lotion, corticosteroid creams, etc.
3, photosensitive dermatitis
Photosensitivity dermatitis is caused by some people’s allergy to ultraviolet light, only seen in a few people, these people usually after 1 to 2 days after the onset of sun exposure, the rash is mostly on the face, neck and front of the neck “V” shaped area, the back of the hands and upper limbs, manifested as small papules, small blisters, conscious itching, serious non-light parts can also start rash, not painful, itching It is obvious and disappears very slowly. If not actively treated, chronic photosensitive skin disease can be formed.
4.Papular urticaria
The disease is related to mosquito bites, such as bedbugs, fleas, lice, mites, mosquitoes and other insect bites on the skin after the injection of saliva, induced allergic reactions. The rash is a green bean to peanut-sized slightly fusiform red windbag-like damage, often with a small blister at the top, some hemispherical elevation of the tension of large blisters, the rash mostly occurs on the trunk, limbs, can be in patches or scattered, itching is obvious. Prevention of this disease as little as possible to grass, shade or damp, mosquito places, indoor mosquito incense, the occurrence of the rash can be used externally with a variety of ointments or creams containing hormones or choose the appropriate oral medication. However, it should be noted that it is best not to use safflower oil and other applications, because this may lead to allergies, but rather aggravate the condition.
5.Allergic skin diseases
Allergic disease caused by plant pollen and pollen mites, so that the allergic body allergic reaction to the respiratory tract, eyes and skin. The main manifestations are paroxysmal sneezing, runny nose and nasal congestion, headache, tears, like a cold; skin can appear local or generalized urticaria, facial reoccurrence of dermatitis, itching and other symptoms. To prevent the occurrence of allergic skin diseases, you should eat a diet high in protein and calories as little as possible; if you have a history of allergies, try to go to places where flowers and trees are abundant; wear long-sleeved clothes, shoes and socks when you go out on excursions, and bring desensitizing drugs. In case of itchy skin, generalized fever, coughing and shortness of breath, you should leave the place quickly, and if the symptoms are mild, you can take oral desensitizing medicine.
6.Viral skin diseases
There are chickenpox, rubella, etc. Chickenpox has a rapid onset, with fever, lethargy, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms, and children are a high incidence of chickenpox. Rubella is an acute infectious disease caused by the rubella virus that spreads through the respiratory tract, and symptoms appear after an incubation period of 2 to 3 weeks after people inhale the virus. To prevent viral skin disease, take your child to public places less often, and if your child has chickenpox, the fever period in the diet should be light and easy to digest, pay attention to rest. You should also keep the skin clean and hygienic, and apply some anti-itch drops when the skin itches. The key to preventing rubella virus is to reduce contact with rubella patients. If a pregnant woman comes into contact with a rubella patient and is diagnosed with rubella within the first three months of pregnancy, abortion should be considered.
7. Tinea pedis and ringworm
Tinea pedis and tinea cruris are skin diseases caused by fungal infections that often worsen during the summer months because of the fungal preference for warmth and humidity. Tinea pedis manifests as peeling, macerated erosions between the toes or most blisters on the lateral edge of the foot, which may or may not be itchy, and if left untreated, the rash may gradually expand outward. Tinea capitis manifests as a ring-shaped erythematous desquamation of the inner thighs and buttock fissures that is eccentrically enlarged, often surrounded by small papules, and is self-induced itching or pain. Both tinea pedis and tinea cruris are contagious, so it is important to avoid sharing hygiene utensils such as towels and slippers, and to change shoes and socks and underwear regularly.
8. Eczema
In summer, some people’s hands and feet will secrete a lot of sweat because of the developed sweat glands, especially feet. If you wear non-breathable shoes for a long time, the feet will peel, itch, and grow blisters once the heat and humidity come up, which many people mistake for foot odor, but it is actually eczema. To prevent and treat eczema, keep the area dry and apply various ointments or creams containing hormones to the affected area topically, 2 to 3 times a day. Wear air-permeable shoes, such as cloth shoes with a cloth sole. Because eczema has the same symptoms as tinea pedis, a fungal test should be done before treatment to determine whether it is a fungal infection or not.
9. Acne (Acne vulgaris)
Young men and women should wash their faces often with soap containing sulfur and warm water. Do not apply cosmetics with a lot of oil on your face, do not squeeze with your hands, eat less fat, sugar, chili, onion and garlic, drink less alcohol, and eat more vegetables and fruits.
10.Sweat spot
Is a kind of oval furfur spores infected skin corneal layer caused by the disease, generally more obvious in summer, the rash is light brown spot, size varies, the surface has a little fine flakes, time is light white, summer sweating can be light red, slightly itchy. Prevention and treatment methods: to often bathe, change clothes, sheets, towels, etc. should often be rinsed and disinfected.
Experts remind: to prevent skin diseases from four aspects. First, pay attention to personal hygiene, try to keep clothes, shoes and socks clean and dry; second, to the barber store beauty or haircut, to avoid direct contact with the hands of the hairdresser or unclean tools and customers to prevent ringworm, dermatitis, etc.; third, when swimming to pay attention to avoid the attack of various germs; fourth, to keep the mood relaxed, good psychological adjustment.
”Adjustment of mind” can also prevent skin diseases. In the hot and humid weather, people’s moods are also prone to irritability, so psychological adjustment can also prevent disease. Clinical practice shows that some skin disease patients have a lot of people in the onset of a certain amount of mental stimulation, coupled with viral infections, immune disorders, endocrine disorders, metabolic disorders and other factors that lead to skin diseases such as psoriasis and other diseases. This part of the patient, after the disease, due to the mood of irritation, often seek treatment eagerly but the results are not good, and then form a greater mental pressure, think that this disease is a persistent disease, difficult to cure. In some cases, the skin disease occurs on the head, face or arms, calves and other parts of the body, affecting aesthetics, which in turn increases the psychological burden. In conjunction with psychological adjustment, patients with skin diseases should eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish, etc., and less cattle, lamb, pork and spicy stimulating food. As long as the psychological balance, mental comfort, and then with the drug treatment, the disease will be gradually cured.