How do tinea versicolor form? It may be an infection!

Tinea versicolor is a common skin disease in clinical practice. It is also the common name for tinea versicolor, a skin disease caused by fungal infection. Patients may experience symptoms such as skin itching. As for how tinea versicolor is formed, it is generally closely related to bacterial infection.

1. Bacterial infection

The pathogenic fungus of pityriasis versicolor is mainly Pityrosporum;

This bacteria also exists on normal skin and is a conditionally pathogenic bacteria.

2. Pathogenic conditions

In summer, the weather is hot and humid, and people sweat easily. Excessive sweating makes the skin moist for a long time, which is conducive to the growth of bacteria, which can then multiply and cause disease through sweating.

3. Pathogenic pathway

This disease mostly occurs in young and middle-aged people; people who sweat a lot and don't take a bath often are more likely to get it;

The disease is mostly transmitted when bathing in unclean rivers or ponds, or in bathrooms or swimming pools with poor sanitation.

4. Pityriasis versicolor

Pityriasis versicolor initially appears as many tiny spots, light brown or dark brown, or grayish white, which gradually expand and have a bran-like scale on the surface that can be scraped off.

The rash can also be pale white spots with depigmentation, or pale brown spots and white spots, with a piebald appearance, varying in size, and round, oval or irregular in shape;

Pityriasis versicolor generally has no subjective symptoms, or may cause mild itching, which is more obvious when sweating;

The course of the disease is relatively long. It can be naturally alleviated in winter, but will relapse in summer.

5. Others

There are two main reasons for the onset of pityriasis versicolor: First, it is caused by rheumatism invading the skin and stagnation of qi and blood. Purple vitiligo is two types of the same body, purple due to blood stasis, white due to stagnation of qi. Second, the occurrence of this disease is caused by body heat, wind evil and moisture invading the pores, and stagnation of qi and blood, and blockage of pores. Using targeted Chinese patent medicines to gently regulate from the inside can achieve eradication, and the skin color can return to normal.