Why is your facial hormonal dermatitis so stubborn and difficult to treat?

  In the process of treating facial dermatitis deeply appreciate that it is a long process, and the patient’s awareness of it determines the smoothness of the disease treatment. Here is some useful common sense to help everyone suffering from hormonal dermatitis.  Facial dermatitis is a general term for a series of inflammatory skin diseases that occur on the face. The common facial eczema, contact dermatitis, facial reoccurring dermatitis, hormone dependent dermatitis, seborrheic dermatitis, rosacea, rosacea and facial skin allergies are all classified as facial dermatitis. The most stubborn and difficult to treat is facial hormone dependent dermatitis, which is often recurrent and long lasting, requiring great patience and perseverance on the part of both the doctor and the patient.  Facial hormone-dependent dermatitis is a non-purulent inflammation of the skin caused by the improper use of skin care products and cosmetics (with prohibited ingredients containing hormones) or the abuse of topical corticosteroid preparations, and makes the affected skin dependent on the drug.  Friends may ask why the proportion of women among hormone dependent dermatitis patients is much larger than that of men.  This is because women care more about their “face” than men do, and once they have discomfort on their face, they like to apply their own medication in order to solve the problem quickly. Secondly, women prefer to use efficacious cosmetics to treat acne, pigmentation or sensitive skin, and many of these efficacious cosmetics have irregularly added hormonal drugs.  At this point, some people are asking, “Why do doctors use hormonal drugs when they have so many side effects?  Corticosteroids have an anti-allergic effect that inhibits immune response. They can reduce congestion and edema after topical application, and make itching and certain inflammatory reactions temporarily relieve and subside, and are commonly used by dermatologists at home and abroad. Fear is self-medication, some ointment playing the so-called “Chinese medicine, Miao medicine, Tibetan medicine, natural plant ingredients ….. In fact, hormones are secretly added to the prohibited ingredients, causing you to be in the dark, thinking that the safe ones actually damage your skin unknowingly.  So why do bad businessmen add hormones in blemish beauty desensitizing cosmetics?  Because short-term use of hormone-containing products has a whitening effect or anti-allergic effect on the skin, but long-term repeated use will cause skin and systemic damage and make the skin produce hormonal dermatitis. During the monitoring of cosmetic adverse reactions by the Ministry of Health, it was found that among consumers who used cosmetics for skin beauty or desensitization treatment in beauty salons, when they stopped using cosmetics, their skin would show clinical manifestations of hormone-dependent dermatitis such as erythema, papules, exudation, capillary dilation and pigmentation, etc. Some of the cosmetics were found to have hormone-like substances added illegally.  Finally, you may ask, how to treat it?  It is the right choice for patients to follow the medical advice of dermatologists in regular hospitals to treat hormonal dermatitis.  Regarding the tacrolimus ointment and pimecrolimus cream, which are used for the treatment of hormonal dermatitis by the consensus of dermatologists at home and abroad, they are local immunomodulators and have good effects, but they need to be used under the guidance of doctors and should not be used for a long time, and others include heparin sodium ointment, Xylactol cream, zinc boron cream, zinc oxide cream, etc. When the recovered skin is dry and astringent, you must use real non-additive and non-irritating moisturizing skin care products under the guidance of a dermatologist, and you should not use skin care products without authorization.  Due to the long treatment period of this disease, hormonal dermatitis generally takes from 3 months to 2 years, and the cure time is proportional to the strength and time of topical hormone preparations. Moreover, when the facial lesions have completely subsided, the skin is still in a period of high sensitivity, and it takes longer to fully recover, while secondary hyperpigmentation and erythema (dilated capillaries) are also problems that exist after patients are cured. Therefore, patients should maintain a good state of mind and not be anxious and angry. Do not stimulate again, emotional immunity will affect the process of skin repair, to a good state of mind in order to overcome hormone dependent dermatitis.  Finally, a word of advice to friends!  If you are suffering from a skin disease, especially a facial skin disease, you must use the medication under the guidance of a dermatologist at a regular hospital, do not purchase the medication on your own or find a non-dermatologist to prescribe it, and use topical creams from unknown sources for a long time at will. Secondly, avoid using online or cosmetic products that are effective in order to avoid hormones that may be harmful to the skin.