Drug-induced dermatitis
Drug-induced dermatitis is an inflammatory change in the skin that occurs, unlike other skin diseases, as a result of one-time or long-term medication. These can be drugs for external and oral use, intravenous and intramuscular injections. Skin lesions can occur in people who do not tolerate certain foods or suffer from various allergic and fungal diseases. Most often, during the manifestation of drug-induced dermatitis, a person does not find out the cause that caused the skin lesion, but resorts to self-medication with various folk remedies. In some cases, this kind of treatment helps, but in others, on the contrary, it aggravates, causing severe irritation and unbearable itching of the skin, which leads to various kinds of complications. Therefore, when the first signs of drug-induced dermatitis occur, it is necessary to consult a specialist. Otherwise, an inflammatory reaction can cause harm to human health.
The content of the article:
Signs of medicinal (medicinal) dermatitis
Treatment of drug-induced dermatitis
Drug-induced dermatitis
Signs of medicinal (medicinal) dermatitis
The first symptoms of the development of drug-induced dermatitis are redness, swelling, peeling and the appearance of blisters and rashes on the skin, causing itching, burning and pain in inflamed areas of the skin. This skin disease can develop in two types of dermatitis:
contact;
fixed.
Medications for external use can cause contact dermatitis, but only in those areas of the skin where the medication was applied. At such moments, a person may feel unbearable itching, burning and pain, and blisters, folliculitis, nodules and wet spots may appear on the inflamed skin. Also, after applying medications for external use to the skin, cracks may appear as a basis for the development of erythema.
Fixed drug-induced dermatitis occurs with oral administration or intramuscular administration of medications, as a result of which the human skin becomes inflamed and acquires a brownish hue. Blisters, blackheads and erosions may also appear on it. The injected drugs affect the mucous membrane and cause redness of the hands and feet, roughness of the skin, itching, soreness. With prolonged medication, hyperpigmentation occurs in different areas of the body (armpits, nipples). Inflammation is often localized in the face and neck, but it can spread to different parts of the skin. In this case, the treatment of medicinal dermatitis takes a very long time.
Usually, it is quite easy to diagnose drug-induced dermatitis caused by the use of a certain drug. Every dermatologist can make a diagnosis after the first examination of the patient. But, of course, to identify the cause of the disease, the patient is sent to take the necessary tests. Nevertheless, there are cases when a person turns to folk healers for help, thinking that herbal remedies will lead to a speedy healing from this ailment. Despite the positive experience of treatment with folk methods, experts recommend that patients do not risk their health. After all, such a skin disease as drug-induced dermatitis requires immediate and qualified treatment.
Treatment of drug-induced dermatitis
At the first signs of the development of drug-induced dermatitis in a patient, the doctor may cancel all medications and prescribe an anti-inflammatory ointment. Then the patient is recommended to follow a certain diet, which excludes the intake of products that cause an allergic reaction. If the patient has a fixed form of dermatitis, then intravenous preparations with calcium chloride, copious drinking and taking diuretics are prescribed to him. If the patient is suffering from unbearable itching, then hormonal ointments or mixtures with anti-inflammatory herbs are applied to the affected areas of the skin. This is the only way the patient will be able to achieve positive results and heal from this unpleasant ailment.
