How to treat ringworm

There was a joke circulating on the Internet, saying that the only hand cream mothers use all year round is detergent. Many people felt sad at the time, but forgot about it over time. However, such mothers are the most likely to suffer from tinea manuum due to long-term immersion in water and use of detergents. Mothers who endure the various discomforts caused by ringworm of the hands just endure it in secret, but their children don't know.

So what exactly is ringworm of the hand? Who are the main groups of patients? What are the common causes of tinea manuum? Many people who suffer from tinea manuum and their families who feel sorry for the patients will look up this relevant knowledge. An introduction is given below.

Tinea manuum is a dermatophyte infection of the palms. If it only affects the back of the hands and causes ring-shaped or multiple ring-shaped lesions, it is still called tinea corporis. Long-term immersion of hands in water, friction injuries, and contact with detergents, solvents, etc. are important causes of tinea manuum infection. Most patients are young and middle-aged women, many of whom have a history of wearing rings. It starts in a certain part of the palm, slowly expands, and eventually involves most, all, or even both sides of the palm. The lesions are erythema, blisters, scales, and thickened keratinization. The diagnosis of tinea manuum should be considered, and a positive fungal examination can confirm the diagnosis. Treatment: For the blister and scaly type, you can use miconazole cream, clotrimazole cream, compound benzoic acid ointment, compound levofloxacin ointment, etc.; for the keratinized thickening type, you can use compound benzoic acid ointment, miconazole cream or soak in 10% glacial acetic acid; for those with chapped skin, you can add urea fat, etc. After the skin lesions subside, the medication should be continued for at least 2 weeks; the number of times the medication is applied to the hands should be appropriately increased, especially after washing hands, ointment or cream should be applied. For patients with a long course of disease or poor local treatment effect, griseofulvin, ketoconazole, etc. can be taken orally; or fluconazole 50% mg/day or 150 mg/week can be taken once for 2-4 weeks.

From the above introduction, we can understand that tinea manuum is a type of tinea corporis. Generally, young and middle-aged women whose hands are always in contact with detergents are prone to this disease. After learning this knowledge, a daughter who loves her mother can help her mother with housework more, or buy her a pair of suitable gloves. After all, detergent is not a real "hand cream", it is just a nickname.