What are the treatments for eczema?

Many people have suffered from eczema in their daily lives. After suffering from eczema, what everyone needs to do is to reduce the recurrence of the disease and control the symptoms well. Therefore, patients need to use a combination of oral and topical medication to achieve effective treatment results.

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Treatment strategy

Control symptoms, reduce recurrences, and improve patients' quality of life.

Symptomatic treatment

Look for possible triggers, such as work environment, living habits, diet, hobbies, thoughts and emotions, as well as the presence or absence of chronic lesions and internal organ diseases.

Drug treatment

1. Internal therapy: Use antihistamines to relieve itching, and use two together or alternately if necessary. Generalized eczema can be treated with oral or injected corticosteroids, but they should not be used for a long time. 2. Topical therapy: Select appropriate dosage forms and drugs according to the condition of skin lesions. For acute eczema, local washing and wet compresses with normal saline, 3% boric acid or 1:2000-1:10000 potassium permanganate solution, and calamine lotion for astringency and protection. Subacute and chronic eczema should be treated with appropriate glucocorticoid creams, tar preparations or immunomodulators, such as tacrolimus ointment and pimecrolimus ointment. Add antibiotic preparations for secondary infection.

Prognosis

Even after improvement due to treatment, the disease is still prone to recurrence.

Diet care

Daily care

1. Don’t take a bath too often in winter, only 1 to 2 times a week; 2. The bath water should not be too hot, generally keep it at 40 degrees Celsius; 3. Use less alkaline soaps and other cleaning products, and scrub less; 4. Maintain the temperature and humidity of the room.

Diet

1. Supplement vitamins appropriately and eat more foods rich in vitamins such as carrots, green leafy vegetables, and fruits. 2. Avoid eating some irritating foods, such as onions, ginger, garlic, strong tea, coffee, alcohol and other foods that are prone to cause allergies, such as fish, shrimp and other seafood.