Pityriasis versicolor in children: how to treat the child

Skin diseases of various kinds are often observed in childhood. In some cases, mothers simply cannot give your child proper attention, resulting in the baby can suffer its hygienic rules, while the prerequisites for the infection of various viral and infectious diseases there are so many.

For anybody not a secret that small children are particularly inquisitive and therefore always strive to know the world not only by touch but also to taste, pulling it into his mouth, and get a whole bunch of problems.

And if there is contact with mucous component of the child, it becomes an obvious fact such attention to children from various infectious and fungal diseases.

Quite often children get from their curiosity pityriasis versicolor, which we'll discuss today.

In the case of such diseases as tinea versicolor, kids, interestingly, rarely suffer symptoms compared to adolescents and adults. Despite such soothing fact the cases are still recorded, and the parents depriving the symptoms may not cause any suspicion.

Symptoms

The first step is to understand how visually this looks like tinea versicolor, which is popularly called the bran.

And we should agree that it is better manifestation of the disease to see rather than to hear 200 times, resulting in concerned parents often try to find in the Internet the characteristic pictures depicting the appearance of infectious fungus.

Today, the Internet presents a lot of photos of this disease, so it is something to see at will and in some cases even get to compare or to associate the digital image with the real manifestations.

Tinea versicolor appears on the skin as spots of different shapes and sizes, and shades including, therefore, the medical experts of the disease is magnified even colored or multicolored ringworm and further divided into subtypes, depending on the most repeated shades:

• yellow,
• black
• or achromatic.

Spots on the skin may become more noticeable when people overdo it with sunbathing or methods of tanning in any other way. By the way, this form of tinea versicolor is the name of the beach.

At the initial stage of the disease, slightly scaly patches, which often have a pinkish or pinkish brown color only when exposed to direct UV rays can change its color to coffee hue, although in some cases color palette can vary fromyellow to dark brown.

As the progression of the disease separately located small spots of tinea versicolor begin to merge among themselves, forming larger lesions that are difficult to treat.

Pityriasis versicolor disproportionately affects the skin located in the following locations:

• In the upper part of the body the most common sites is the abdomen, chest and back (between the shoulder blades).
• Not remain unattended shoulders, armpits, neck, face and even scalp.

No specific signs of physical discomfort expressed by burning, swelling, itching and pain such spots do not cause. All symptoms reduced to peeling, without the elevation of healthy skin.

Varieties of tinea versicolor

In modern medicine there is only one variety of the disease, which is frequently found in sample child age group. This kind is the so-called red hair pityriasis versicolor, either as a short — illness Patient. This pathological condition is manifested at all unusual for an ordinary colored lichen.

Spots have a pronounced deep pink or dark red tint, thick flaky fibrous coating and extremely painful to the touch. Such a variation affects more the skin of the head given the hairy part and face, but additionally, it may spread to other areas on the body, including hands and feet, which are never affected at ordinary pityriasis lichen. Contamination can be subjected to even the nail plate.

Causes of infection

Scientists have determined that tinea versicolor belongs to the family of fungal infections that have a common name — fungal infections. The disease affects the upper skin layer is represented by the epidermis.

Ways of infection so far have not been studied thoroughly: some scientists believe that this type of lichen can not be transmitted through contact-household pathway, whereas the other in this statement is just confident, as a result, most dermatologists believed that this type of transmission and spread of the disease is not eliminated, resulting in very likely.

In practice, the condition of high humidity, therefore, one of the main factors in the development of the fungus is the excessive sweating of a person.

And this statement can be represented not only as innate characteristics, but also by working conditions, the nature of the activity, for example, in summer, in hot shops in factories or factories, in sports, the use of synthetic confrontslinen, either in case of non-observance of simple hygienic rules, most of these moments do not belong to the child, but can be hypothetical factors.

It is worth noting that antibacterial cosmetic products can also cause the development of lichen, in case of abuse: in such cases, the protective functions of the epidermis are reduced.

In terms of infection, this disease can spread directly from one person to another person if:

• ordinary contact (for example, when the arms or hands),
• plus, through items of public use.
• often this kind of lichen are sick it is Teens and children who play active sports, and who can use communal showers and changing rooms.

In modern medicine more than one novennial-known cases of pityriasis versicolor forms gained its activity due to prolonged stress or emotional turmoil. in General, the question of depriving infectivity of parents is constantly rising, so that the painting will complement the information from the material long term.

The most ideal option in this case will act as antifungal treatment in which doctors are assigned special ointments, creams or lotions that allow in the shortest possible time to quell the source of the disease. for this, you need to accurately diagnose the disease is what will help our article is Tinea versicolor: treatment, drugs.

The infected child is recommended to allocate a bleaching linen along with personal items-use then things should be washed only after soaking in a special solution dezinfeciruyuhimi.

In the event of a protracted development of the disease may require systemic treatment presented by drugs for internal use that will be able to choose a doctor. So is the case with antibiotics, if in their application the need arises (in practice, they are assigned only in cases of severe illness). To improve the immune status therapeutic measures conducive to the rapid recovery of the child, and General manner go in his favor.