Treatment of pink lichen

Pink lichen is not a malignant formation on the skin. This education does not threaten anything, but it is an extremely unpleasant fact. This disease lasts about 1.5 months, if it is hard, about 2 months. In some cases, a pink lupus in a patient can last up to six months.

To treat or not treat

Many modern authoritative dermatologists believe that if a typical pink lichen runs without complications, then the patient does not need active therapy, because almost always deprive this species passes by itself and without a trace. The patient in this case is recommended to adhere to the diet and exclude from the diet all foods that contain all kinds of allergic substances. It is necessary to exclude from the diet all food that irritates the gastrointestinal tract - smoked foods, pickled foods, alcoholic beverages, salty foods, chocolate and coffee, strong tea.

While there are rashes on the body, the patient is advised to avoid washing and other procedures related to water - contact with water can lead to the development of various complications and the spread of rashes. It is especially forbidden to visit public baths, use washcloths and refrain from rubbing the skin with a hard towel. It is also necessary to abstain from wearing synthetic linen and wool clothes.

With an exacerbation of pink lichen, antiallergic drugs and antibiotics are prescribed for prophylactic purposes. Exacerbation of pink lichen is accompanied by an increase in formations to large sizes, which are localized almost throughout the body.

Pink lichen is also treated locally with various shaking suspensions based on water and oil, creams containing preparations of adrenal cortex hormones.

Folk remedies for treating pink lichen

Pink lichen and other types are treated, depriving the celandine with tincture, which can be easily purchased at the pharmacy, and can be cooked at home. I want to note that properly prepared tincture is almost always more effective than the purchased tincture.

Prepare the tincture yourself: in a bottle of dark glass, put chopped flowers, leaves, stems of fresh celandine, lightly press down and pour the whole mixture with good vodka. Close the bottle with a stopper and put it on for three weeks in a dark place. For 3 weeks tincture should be shaken every evening. Ready tincture filter and drink before eating - a tablespoon of water mixed with 10 drops of tincture. This same tincture greases foci of formations per day at least 2 times. The prepared tincture can be drunk as a cleansing organism and a general preventive agent with the onset of spring and autumn, that is, during a decrease in immunity.

To remove pink lichen, you can lubricate the skin with a mixture of zinc oxide, water, glycerin, talc( all taken 2 tbsp).All the ingredients are mixed in a glass jar, after which they are applied to the rashes.

For the treatment of this disease, you can buy alcoholic tincture of salicylic acid in the pharmacy and lubricate the rashes. Outwardly, rashes can be lubricated with dog rose, sea-buckthorn, peach or hunter's oil. He will cure of pink lichen and relieve the itch of romazulan, chlorophyllipt, sanguirithrin. It is useful to lubricate rashes with natural apple cider vinegar. Lubricate is recommended a day at least 6-7 times.

We prepare the medicinal ointment: we take birch tar and butter in equal quantities and mix. The resulting mixture is applied overnight to the rashes and fixed with a band-aid or other comfortable bandage.

With pink deprivation( and other types), rashes can be lubricated with a mixture of pure tar( 50 g), thick cream( 0.5 st), fresh egg yolks( 2 pcs.).All is mixed and rubbed into the damaged skin a day at least 2 times. Such a mixture is able to cure even persistent, chronic lichen.

If pink lichen is treated at home, then it is recommended in parallel to strengthen the defenses of your body, that is, to strengthen the immune system!