Fish scale disease-What is a fish-scale disease?
Fish scale disease is a dry skin, rough, surface coverage, such as congenital skin disease ichthyosis-like rash.
Fish scale disease - IntroductionMajor damage to the skin is dry, rough, with diamond-shaped or polygonal, pale brown to dark brown chaff-like scales, each other closely related form such as fish scales embedded in the skin above the sub-edge slightly free. The majority of symmetric extensor surfaces of the limbs, especially the elbow, knee extensor side as the most important. The light disappears in summer, winter or aggravated; severe cases, skin thickening, striae obvious, chest and abdomen also have skin lesions; severe cases, systemic dry skin, only axillary, cubital fossa and the groin skin lesions lighter. Mostly in the onset soon after birth or childhood, childhood is becoming apparent until after puberty gradually improved, but will not disappear. Summer skin dry and sweat less, a few sweat difficult to feel aches and discomfort, or a slight fever; winter chapped skin, pain. Often accompanied by palmoplantar hyperkeratosis (toe) A rough brittle, dry hair sparse.
Fish scale disease - modern medicine, fish scale disease is a genetic skin disease. Fish scale disease diagnosis based on typical skin lesions, such as dry skin, rough, accompanied by a fish scale-like dander, often aggravated in the winter and summer to reduce or disappear.
The modern medical treatment of this disease is the oral administration of vitamin A, topical urea cream or vitamin A acid ointment.
Fish scale disease is the equivalent of "snake skin ringworm" of the Chinese medicine. Such as Sui to treat patients waiting on the snakeskin-designate, "said the snake, by Feng Xie off Cou management. People Cou management by the wind, then closed the secret, so that the blood gas astringent cloud, not the Wing Run, skin spots stripping, and even shaped like a snake scales. Is now considered by innate endowment less than that may cause blood deficiency and wind dryness, blood stasis, body skin dystrophy made. Inadequate endowment, kidney essence decline, the skin is lost in the fine blood Ruyang skin a mistake, fine blood moisten the falling of a dry wind, or by pathogenic wind from outside; blood stasis, endowment weakness, blood stasis, poor meridians, the body skin due to the dystrophy.
Fish scale disease - treatmentIchthyosis is an autosomal recessive genetic disease, there is no final solution. TCM scientific and rational treatment can achieve clinical cure, the skin returned to normal. Of proprietary Chinese medicine according to the treatment of patients with specific conditions, targeted drug will have a significant therapeutic effect. General cases such as this treatment is the right way, about three months of basic clinical treatment can be achieved, but there is still the possibility of recurrence.
