What to do during pregnancy with neurodermatitis

Women should pay attention to their physical health after they become pregnant, because taking medication will affect the fetus, but what should they do if they have neurodermatitis during pregnancy? If a pregnant woman has neurodermatitis, doctors do not recommend the use of medication to treat it, because most drugs for treating dermatitis are anti-allergic, and such drugs have a greater impact on the fetus. Therefore, you can choose some effective folk remedies, such as applying bitter melon juice to the affected area.

How to deal with neurodermatitis in pregnant women

Treatment

Neurodermatitis

1. Traditional Chinese medicine treatment. The use of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese herbal medicine is the method recommended by many doctors.

2. Eliminate possible causes. For example, patients with mood swings or obvious neurasthenia can be given sedatives.

3. Avoid irritation, such as repeated local scratching, washing with hot water, using detergents and other adverse stimuli. Avoid stimulating foods such as alcohol, strong tea, coffee and spicy food.

4. To relieve itching, antihistamines, intravenous and local blockade therapy, and topical corticosteroid ointments, plasters, tars and other preparations can be given.

5. Physical therapy, including superficial X-ray irradiation, isotope 32-phosphorus, 90-strontium application, liquid nitrogen freezing, laser, magnetic therapy, wax therapy, mineral bath and photochemotherapy. For widespread or severe cases, oral corticosteroids or physical therapy may be given.

External treatment prescription

The prescription was made in the 44th year of the Daoguang reign of the Qing Dynasty. It is made from ground and boiled Chinese herbal medicine. It is a prescription for external use of Chinese medicine for the treatment of dermatitis left by the legendary doctor Hua Tuo.

Clinical symptoms

Neurodermatitis

1. The rash is more likely to occur on the neck, extensor side of the limbs, lower back, fossa, and vulva;

2. Conscious itching, chronic course, recurring or prolonged;

3. There is often local itching at first. After repeated scratching and rubbing, millet-like, mung bean-sized, round or polygonal flat papules appear locally. They are skin-colored, light red or light brown, and slightly shiny. Later, the number of rashes increases and merges into pieces, becoming typical lichenoid lesions. The lesions vary in size and shape, and there may be a small number of scattered flat papules around them.

4. Clinically divided into localized type and disseminated type. The former is more common.

5. When the disease first occurs, there is only an itchy sensation, but no primary skin lesions. Due to scratching and friction, flat papules ranging in size from millet to mung bean gradually appear on the skin. They are round or polygonal, hard and shiny, light red or normal skin color, and scattered. Due to paroxysmal severe itching, patients often scratch, and the papules gradually increase in number. Over time, they merge into flakes, become thickened and lichenified, and are manifested by deepening of skin wrinkles and raised skin ridges. The skin lesions become dark brown, dry, and have fine desquamation. The patchy lesions have clear borders, and there may be small flat papules at the edges, which are scattered and isolated. The number of skin lesions is variable and they may be solitary or widespread, of varying sizes and shapes.

6. Neurodermatitis often occurs on both sides of the neck, neck, elbows, popliteal fossa, sacrum, wrists, ankles, and also on the waist, back, eyelids, limbs and vulva. If the skin lesions are limited to one or a few places, it is called localized neurodermatitis; if the skin lesions are widely distributed or even spread throughout the body, it is called generalized neurodermatitis.

7. The subjective symptoms are paroxysmal severe itching, especially at night, which affects sleep. Scratching will cause blood marks and blood scabs, and in severe cases, folliculitis and lymphadenitis may occur.

8. This disease is a chronic disease with symptoms that vary in severity and are prone to relapse after recovery.