Dry and flaky skin on elbows

Symptoms of dryness and flaking on the elbows may be caused by skin diseases or eczema. If you have tinea, it is mostly caused by fungal infection. It is best to go to the hospital as soon as possible to find out the cause and then receive timely treatment to avoid worsening of the condition and adding certain difficulties to the treatment. In daily life, you must pay more attention to light diet and try not to eat spicy and irritating foods, which are not conducive to recovery of the disease.

What are the symptoms of psoriasis?

Common symptoms: erythema, papules, multiple scaling

psoriasis

It is a common skin disease, and ancient medical books also call it pine skin ringworm. Formerly known as psoriasis. Key points for diagnosis of psoriasis: This disease is more common in young and middle-aged people, but it can also occur at any age, with a similar incidence in men and women. Clinically, it can be divided into four types: common type, articular type, pustular type and erythrodermic type, among which the common type is the most common.

Psoriasis, also known as "white psoriasis" in traditional Chinese medicine and "psoriasis" among the people, is officially called psoriasis. It is very unscientific to use the word psoriasis to summarize the name of the disease, because psoriasis is not actually ringworm. The so-called ringworm in medicine refers to some skin diseases caused by fungal infections, such as tinea capitis, tinea cruris, tinea corporis, tinea manuum, pedis, and nail tinea. Fungal hyphae or fungal spores can often be found when the local dandruff of these ringworms is placed under a microscope, and the use of antifungal drugs for treatment can often achieve good results. Psoriasis is not caused by fungal infection and is medically known as psoriasis. The causes of its disease are complex, and treatment with antifungal drugs is often ineffective. Therefore, do not take the name literally and take antifungal drugs on your own or use external tinea drugs indiscriminately, so as not to waste money and aggravate the condition. Because psoriasis lesions are covered with silvery-white scales, which is very characteristic, Western medicine calls it psoriasis, which is very appropriate. Out of respect for patients, the term psoriasis should also be used.

Psoriasis

It is a common chronic skin disease characterized by the recurrence of multiple layers of silvery-white dry scales on erythema. In ancient Chinese medicine, it was called "white psoriasis", and ancient medical books also called it pine skin ringworm. Western medicine calls it psoriasis, commonly known as psoriasis, which is characterized by the appearance of papules of varying sizes, erythema, covered with silvery-white scales on the surface, with clear boundaries, and is prone to occur on the scalp, extensor sides of the limbs and back. There are more men than women. The disease tends to relapse or worsen in spring and winter, while it tends to improve in summer and autumn. In addition, wild advertising in cities is also called "psoriasis".