Red flat lichen ? This is a chronic disease, affecting the skin, mucous membranes, less often nails. Adults are more often sick.
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Risk factors:
- Age 40-60 years old (more often women),
- Hereditary predisposition,
- Transferred stress,
- Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract,
- diabetes,
- Injuries mucous membrane mouth
Accurate cause The emergence of red flat deprived unknown. The development of the disease can affect:
- Disorders of the nervous system,
- Immunity violations,
- Allergic reactions,
- The presence of foci of chronic infection in the body: tonsillitis, caries, hymorite and t.D.
What's happening?
Most often, the rash appear on the bending surface of the forearm, the inner surface of the hips, the front surface of the shins, as well as in groin and armpits. These are small nodules with a shiny surface, sharply delimited from the surrounding skin. Color of rams thick-red, shiny, and sometimes drowned. In the center of individual nodules there is a pupil. The nodules can merge, forming plaques on which you can notice a kind of mesh pattern, is clearly noticeable after lubricating with vegetable oil.
Symptoms linguring
- Pronounced.
- The damage to the mucous membrane of the oral cavity or genital organs is observed in almost half of the patients. It can be solitary, and maybe combined with leather damage. Insulated damage to the mucous membrane of the mouth is often associated with the presence of metal dental crowns, especially from different metals. On the mucous cavity of the mouth, the blessed color is often grouped and located linear in the field of closure of the teeth.
- The defeat of the nails is observed in 10-15% of patients and is characterized by thinning, fragility, turbidity of nail plates, formation on their surface of longitudinal furrows.
The first rashes are held for several weeks or months, and relapses arise over the years.
Diagnosis and treatment deprived
The diagnosis of red flat deprivation is installed by a dermatologist when inspecting. When rashes on the mucous membrane of the mouth to a dermatologist, as a rule, the patient sends a dentist.
Due to the fact that the disease can last for years, often exacerbates and difficult to cure, it is necessary to monitor the dermatologist and a thorough examination of the patient to identify internal organ lesions. Therefore, the dermatologist may appoint additional surveys from other specialists (gastroenterologist, endocrinologist, neurologist, dentist, etc.)
The disease is usually cured independently, but after a few years it may arise again.
If there is a suspicion that the disease is caused by any medicinal drug or chemical, then its application should be stopped. Need careful examination of patients to identify internal diseases. First of all, it is necessary to investigate the gastrointestinal tract, blood sugar indicators, neuropsychic state.
In the absence of symptoms, treatment is not required. Antiallergic tooling to reduce itch. The doctor can also assign vitamins, sedatives, physiotics. Antibiotics can be assigned to patients with reduced immunity and complications.
The prevention of exacerbations is the treatment of foci of chronic infection (sinusitis, tonsillitis, caries, etc.), treatment of psychoneurological disorders, overwork the nervous system, stress.
