Healing multicolored lichen should be all-encompassing, and include a systemic intake of antifungal drugs inward in pills. Also, healing should focus on strengthening immunity and preventing.

Multicolored pityriasis lichen is a contagious fungal, slightly contagious skin disease with a predominant lesion of the upper layers of the horny skin epithelium. The causative agent of the multi-colored lichen is a yeast-like fungus (pityrosporum orbiculare), which normally exists on the surface of the human skin and affects only under certain conditions suitable for the development of infection.

Multicolored background.

At the moment they say that the incidence is promoted by excessive sweating (athletes and people with physical labor are ill more often), a specific chemical composition of sweat, reduced immunity, long healing by hormonal products and personal skin.

Young ladies and men get sick more often, kids and old people get sick from time to time. The disease is manifested by the defeat of the skin in the form of spots of different colors from whitish to coffee-brown, are placed asymmetrically more often on the skin of the back, chest, tummy, cervix. They tend to grow in size and connect with each other, resulting in the skin acquiring a spotty appearance, from which the name of the disease came. Skin for all this is not inflamed and does not bring personal anxiety. From time to time may be accompanied by short-term itching. When the stains are scraped on the skin, there is a fine-lamellar peeling of the dead skin, "otrepid" peeling, so the disease received its 2nd title. This occurs as a result of the dying off of the upper layers of the skin, which is accompanied by desquamation. Fungus spreading in the skin covers prevents the formation of melanin, which promotes the tanning of the skin. And, if during the disease a person is exposed to the sun's rays, these skin areas do not sunbathe and after the disease there are white spots (pseudoleucoderma).

Diagnostics.

The diagnosis should be made only by a qualified dermatovenereologist. Do not try not to diagnose your illness without the help of others, contact a specialist.

Diagnosis is usually performed on the basis of a catchy medical picture of the disease. In cases where the diagnosis is difficult to deliver, use special samples, for example, the Balzera iodine assay: the affected areas of the skin and healthy adjacent to them are lubricated with 5% alcoholic iodine, the affected areas will be colored more actively, because the stratum corneum there is loosened.

Healing of colorful lichen.

The healing is to reduce sweating and dry the skin, so that the fungus does not develop further, for this purpose the skin is acidified by lubricating it with 5% salicylic alcohol. Also use different antifungal ointments, for example, Lamisil, Clotrimazole, shampoos, cream. It has long been used to heal a multicolored lichen 10% sulfuric ointment. The course of healing is usually 7-10 days, with all this done and disinfection of all household items (towels, bed and underwear) with the following airing them and ironing with a hot iron. Healing multicolored lichen should be all-encompassing, and include a systemic intake of antifungal drugs inward in pills. Also, the healing of multi-colored lichen should be aimed at strengthening immunity and preventing the recurrence of the disease.

After a course of antifungal healing, daily water procedures with a washcloth are recommended to exfoliate the cornified layer of the epidermis. In the forthcoming it is recommended to take sunbaths to even out the color of the skin and get rid of pseudoleucoderma.

Prevention.

For the prevention of fungal infection, it is necessary to comply with light rules of personal hygiene: do not take other people's things, have your beach towel, do not swim on public beaches.

Health. Sumy. Ua.