How to prevent the elderly from suffering from skin diseases

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When people reach a certain age, their body's various indexes will decline, and their immunity / resistance is even lower than that in their prime. At this time, various diseases begin to come up. The incidence rate of skin diseases is relatively high in this disease. Especially in summer, it is a high incidence period of various skin diseases. Old people's disease treatment is much more difficult than that of adults, and the treatment of skin diseases is more troublesome, so old people suffering from skin diseases will suffer more. So how can we prevent the elderly from suffering from skin diseases in summer? Experts give the following methods:

How to prevent the elderly from suffering from skin diseases

1. Tinea pedis, that is beriberi, many people have, every summer is easy to attack. In addition to the common tinea pedis, there are tinea capitis, tinea cruris and tinea corporis. Skin diseases caused by fungi, most of the day a heat is easy to relapse, but also infectious. Keep the affected area dry and ventilated. Especially for feet, try to wear breathable sandals and frequently change shoes and socks. Some patients casually wipe their own medicine, the result was local tinea manus and pedis, the wrong use of hormone ointment, leading to fungal spread into generalized tinea corporis and tinea cruris.

2, sweat stain is also a skin disease with high incidence rate in summer. Sweat spots tend to occur in places where sebaceous glands are distributed vigorously, such as the trunk, armpit and other hot parts. Light brown spots will be red and itchy when sweating. It is necessary to keep cool and cooperate with antifungal drugs in the treatment of sweat spots. Often contain ketoconazole, anti fungal shampoo can be used to reduce recurrence.

3. Herpes zoster is commonly known as "belt snake", the elderly immune ability is poor, in the case of poor rest, overwork, herpes zoster prone to occur. The elderly patients with herpes zoster condition is more serious, easy to leave neuralgia and other sequelae. Timely and regular treatment is very important.

matters needing attention

Patients with skin diseases should pay more attention to diet than patients with other diseases, because some hair may directly lead to the recurrence of skin diseases. This requires that patients with skin diseases must develop a regular diet and reasonable habits, consult doctors more about relevant knowledge, strive to cure the disease as soon as possible, get rid of the trouble. For the prevention of skin diseases in the elderly mentioned in the article, it is suggested that friends of the elderly at home read carefully to prevent and reduce the risk of the elderly.