What is erythroderma

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Skin disease also encountered many in life, the simplest is skin allergy, you can see that the skin symptoms are basically itching, small pimples and so on, serious up will be peeling, now there is a kind of skin disease called erythroderma, what is erythroderma.

What is erythroderma

First: erythroderma, also known as exfoliative dermatitis, is a serious systemic disease. It is generally believed that erythroderma and exfoliative dermatitis are the same disease. The former is characterized by extensive erythema infiltration with chaff like desquamation, while the latter has extensive edematous erythema with a large number of desquamation. Skin involvement area ≥ 90% is a prerequisite for the diagnosis of the disease.

Second: most of the patients with drug allergy are acute, and their condition is serious. The first rash may be scarlet fever like or measles like. The rash rapidly expands, fuses and extends to the whole body, forming exfoliative dermatitis. The typical manifestation of erythroderma is diffuse flushing, infiltration, swelling and desquamation of the whole skin. The affected area of skin lesions is more than 90% of the whole skin. However, erythroderma is not only manifested in skin, mucous membrane and skin appendages, but also in lymph nodes and even internal organs.

Third: hair loss, light hair sparse, heavy can cause extensive mass loss. The more serious the disease is, the more obvious the hair shedding is. After the recovery of the disease, the hair can regenerate. Finger (toe) nail can appear atrophy, turbidity, depression and so on, especially in psoriatic erythroderma caused by nail change is the most obvious.

matters needing attention

The emergence of erythroderma must be smeared anti-inflammatory cream every day, to avoid drug abuse, eat more high protein food, of course, drug allergy can also lead to erythroderma, so the choice of drugs should remember to be cautious.