What’s going on with the red spots on my legs and then the scabs?



A lot of red spots on the legs after the crust may be eczema, contact dermatitis, ringworm, pustular psoriasis and other diseases caused by the symptoms. Patients should go to the hospital in time to identify the cause of the disease.

1. Eczema: Eczema is a chronic inflammatory itchy skin disease, patients in the acute stage can be manifested as erythema, pimples and other symptoms, and later can appear crusting, flaking and other symptoms. Therefore, eczema patients can appear on the legs after a lot of red spots crusting symptoms.

2. Contact dermatitis: when the skin comes into contact with allergens, there may be recurrent symptoms of skin allergy, and the patients may have red rashes and papules, accompanied by itching and other symptoms, and the patients may have small red dots like scabs after scratching the skin.

3. Tinea corporis: fungal infection of the skin may cause tinea corporis, and the patient may have red patches on the legs, and may also form small red spots like scabs.

4. Pustular psoriasis: often acute onset, in the common type of psoriasis lesions or no lesions of normal skin quickly appeared on the needle tip to corn size, yellowish or yellowish white shallow in the aseptic small pustules, often densely distributed, can be fused to form a piece of pus lakes, lesions can be rapidly developed to the whole body, accompanied by swelling and pain. Generally 1 to 2 weeks after the pustules dry and crust, the condition of natural relief.

Patients with a lot of red spots on the legs after the scabs should go to the hospital in time, under the guidance of the doctor for treatment.