How to treat atopic dermatitis

There are many types of skin diseases. When treating skin diseases, we must first understand the skin disease the patient suffers from, so that it will be of great help in improving the disease. If you don’t understand your own skin disease, you can’t choose medicines at will, otherwise it will have some effects on the body. This should be paid attention to when treating skin diseases. How to treat atopic dermatitis?

Many people are not very clear about how to treat atopic dermatitis. There are some good methods to treat this disease, but before improving this type of disease, we need to know more about the treatment methods of atopic dermatitis.

How to treat atopic dermatitis:

Remove and avoid possible causative factors and provide symptomatic treatment. It includes routine application of moisturizer, topical corticosteroids, anti-infection treatment for concurrent infections, non-hormonal topical immunomodulators, oral antihistamines, phototherapy, and high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin.

Clinical manifestations

Atopic dermatitis is divided into three stages: ① Infancy: The disease begins in the second or third month after birth. The rash is divided into exudative type and dry type, both accompanied by severe itching. ②Childhood: Most cases occur before the age of five. Skin lesions are divided into eczematous type and prurigo type. ③Youth and adulthood: skin lesions are similar to those in childhood.

diagnosis

The diagnosis is based on the personal or family history of "atopy" and the characteristics of the skin lesions: acute or subacute eczema in infancy, often occurring on the cheeks and forehead; subacute or chronic eczema in childhood and adolescence, often occurring on the flexor side of the limbs, especially the elbows and popliteal fossa; or prurigo-like, often occurring on the flexor side of the limbs.

The above is a detailed introduction on how to treat atopic dermatitis. When treating this type of disease, you can completely follow the above methods. However, when improving atopic dermatitis, you must also pay attention to dietary choices. At this time, the patient cannot eat casually and cannot eat some spicy foods.