What to do if white oil comes out of your scalp after scraping

If some white oil-like substances can be scraped out from the scalp, this symptom is generally caused by fungal infection. If you do not pay attention to the hygiene of the scalp, it will often cause this kind of infection. In medicine, this is called seborrheic dermatitis and requires timely and good treatment. It can be treated with compound sulfur lotion or compound chloramphenicol tincture. You should pay attention to diet and keep your hair clean.

Treatment of seborrheic dermatitis 1. General treatment: Maintain a regular life, get enough sleep, adjust your diet, eat more vegetables, limit high-fat and high-sugar diets, avoid drinking alcohol and spicy and irritating foods, and avoid excessive mental stress. 2. Topical medications 1. Glucocorticoids are mainly used for skin lesions with severe inflammation. Medium- or high-potency glucocorticoid preparations can be applied externally, which have good therapeutic effects, but should not be used for a long time, especially on the face. Low-potency glucocorticoids such as hydrocortisone preparations have weaker effects and are suitable for infants and young children. 2. Antibacterial drugs: Apply 2% erythromycin ointment or gel, 5% metronidazole cream, or a cream containing 1% chloramphenicol and 0.1% dexamethasone.

3. Selenium sulfide lotion has the effect of killing fungi and inhibiting bacterial growth. It can also reduce sebum secretion and the content of fatty acids in sebum. 4. Zinc pyrithione lotion The concentration of zinc pyrithione shampoo is 1% to 2%. In addition to being used on the scalp, it can also be used on other parts of the body, such as the face, brow arches, and trunk. Do not apply to eyelid margins to avoid eye irritation. Apply the medicine to the affected area, leave it on for 1 to 2 minutes, and then wash it off with clean water. Apply 1 to 2 times a day. When symptoms are under control, change to once a day, but you must persist in applying it to avoid recurrence. The shampoo has an inhibitory effect on the proliferation of epidermal cells. In addition, it has a broad-spectrum antibacterial effect and can inhibit the growth of Pityrosporum ovale. 5. Antifungal preparations Antifungal preparations, especially imidazole drugs, have good therapeutic effects. Shampoos or creams containing ketoconazole 2%, itraconazole, econazole, clotrimazole, miconazole, oxiconazole, isoconazole, or ciclopirox and terbinafine 1% preparations are commonly used. In addition to antifungal effects, antifungal preparations also have multiple effects such as anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and inhibition of cell wall lipid formation.

6. Sulfur and/or salicylic acid lotions and other sulfur and/or salicylic acid have antibacterial and desquamative effects, and have certain therapeutic effects on this disease, but they are not as good as zinc pyrithione and selenium sulfide, and are very irritating. Coal tar preparations have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and antimitotic effects, but are colored, smelly and irritating, so they are usually only used on the scalp. This is all I have to say about the treatment methods for seborrheic dermatitis. I hope that patients with seborrheic dermatitis will carefully choose a treatment method that suits them. If you want to cure seborrheic dermatitis, you must first do a good job of preventing it. Finally, I wish all patients with seborrheic dermatitis to cure their seborrheic dermatitis as soon as possible.

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