Pyoderma treatment is a fight against skin pathologies provoked by pyogenic microscopic life forms. Pyoderma is a collective concept, includes several types of diseases, combined by localization (skin), pathogens (one kind of bacteria). Specific studies have shown: 25-40% of all skin diseases are pyoderma in various forms.
general information
Sometimes treatment of pyoderma as an independent disease is required, in other cases, other health disorders provoke pathology. It is known that the risk of pyoderma in patients with diabetes is increased, since the circulatory system is disrupted, skin cells receive less nutrient components necessary for normal functioning.
Understanding that treatment of pyoderma is required can be done through a wide list of symptoms. In most cases, a change in the shade of the affected areas of the skin is characteristic: the integuments become reddish, then rashes, purulent blisters appear on them. In the absence of treatment, an opening of the blisters occurs, ulcers form in their place. Without adequate therapy, such foci heal for a very long time.
Chronic pyoderma provoked by staphylococci, with a high degree, cause the formation of scars on the skin.
One of the varieties of pyoderma is folliculitis. Similar manifestations differ and carbuncles. These diagnoses are made if pathological processes affect the skin area at the sites of accumulation of hair follicles. More often, treatment of pyoderma of this format in the perineum, armpits is required.
Diagnosis of the disease
To choose the optimal treatment program for pyoderma of the face, body, inguinal region and other areas, you must first make a number of specific tests to confirm the diagnosis. At the reception, the doctor takes scrapings from the diseased areas of the skin and sends them to the laboratory for a thorough examination. If there are bubbles, samples of their contents are obtained. By identifying the pathogen, you can finally understand whether there is pyoderma or if the patient suffers from another disease.
In addition to scraping, the doctor collects complaints, learns the features of the patient's life for making an anamnesis. As a rule, patients do not follow hygiene rules too carefully, and this contributes to the active development of pathological microflora. The clinical picture in pyoderma is significantly different from other skin diseases, so diagnosis is rarely a difficult task.
Where did the trouble come from?
Before understanding the essence of symptoms, treatment of pyoderma, it is necessary to understand what leads to the development of the disease. Three bacterial species from the cocci family can provoke pathological processes: pio-, staphilo-, streptococci. In extremely rare cases, other pathogens provoke the disease. Scientists have found that microorganisms that can cause pyoderma normally live on the skin of any healthy person. With a decrease in immunity, deterioration of the skin nutrition of the colony, reproduction begins, which leads to pathological processes. More often, due to symptoms of pyoderma, treatment is required for people suffering from:
- diabetes
- violations of the gastrointestinal tract;
- malfunctions of the blood-forming organs;
- hormonal imbalance.
Tender age
Quite often, it is necessary to select drugs for the treatment of pyoderma in children. Higher incidence rate among infants. Most cases are due to insufficient hygiene, which leads to suppuration in the umbilical region. The natural skin protection in infancy is rather weak, so the risk of developing the disease is significantly higher than in older people. From statistics it is known that up to 40% of all cases of childhood skin diseases are precisely pyoderma.
In older children, pyoderma is due to frequent injuries received during games. All these cases are particularly difficult due to the limited applicability of different drugs for the treatment of young patients. The practice of treating pyoderma with folk remedies is widespread - it is believed that home recipes are effective, but safe. True, even their use should be practiced only under the supervision of a doctor.
The right start is the key to success
The first thing to do is visit a doctor as soon as symptoms of pyoderma appear. Treatment in adults and children is chosen by a qualified doctor, focusing on the characteristics of the case, individual intolerance, course and severity of the pathology. A dermatologist will lead the course, although you can also see a therapist with signs of the disease - the doctor will prescribe a referral to a narrow-profile specialist.
At the appointment, the doctor will tell you: first you need to short-cut hair in the affected area. Treatment of pyoderma of the head, armpits, inguinal region and other areas with hair involves strictly cutting them, you can not shave. Elimination of long hair prevents the transfer of bacteria to healthy skin areas.
An important rule of the therapeutic course is the exclusion of water procedures, except for the most necessary. It is especially important to observe this rule if large areas are affected, the disease is severe.
To maintain the strength of the body, the doctor will recommend a special diet for the duration of treatment. Have to give up:
- acute;
- fried;
- alcohol;
- salty.
Treatment of pyoderma in adults and children involves the treatment of affected areas with aniline compounds, a pink solution of potassium permanganate. If your hands are not infected, you will have to wash them thoroughly daily using an antibacterial soap. During treatment, it is important to constantly cut the nails, treat them with iodine solution every day. This will prevent the spread of pathological microorganisms throughout the surface of the body.
Options and Approaches
If the disease proceeds in a chronic form, antibiotic treatment of pyoderma is practiced. The choice of funds is strictly at the discretion of the doctor. The doctor takes samples from the affected areas, reveals which pathological microflora is present, to which substances it is sensitive. Based on the information received, a comprehensive course is developed. Bacteriological analysis is carried out by the method of culture using nutrient media.
You can take funds to stimulate the immune system in order to increase the effectiveness of the treatment course of pyoderma. The photo below shows, in particular, aloe vera. Such a plant grows in almost every house, and its anti-inflammatory qualities are known to everyone and everyone.
However, sometimes more serious methods are needed to hold the body's defenses. Your doctor may order a blood transfusion or an ultraviolet bath. Such procedures will make it possible to disinfect fluid in the circulatory system. The choice of methods for maintaining immunity depends on the severity and form of the disease.
It’s easier to warn than to treat
The most effective way is prevention of pyoderma. The measures are quite simple: you need to carefully pay attention to hygiene rules, monitor the cleanliness of the skin, regularly undergo examinations by a doctor in order to timely identify systemic diseases, impaired functionality of any internal organs. If health problems are found, adequate treatment should be started without delay.
Home treatment
Mild pyoderma can be cured at home. Of course, you first need to go to the doctor to clarify the diagnosis, coordinate the therapy with him, but it is likely that the doctor will approve the use of simple recipes of alternative medicine if the pathology is easy. The advantage of this approach is the minimal risk of an allergic reaction, the absence of systemic effects on the body, and stimulation of skin regeneration. With the correct use of alternative recipes, the risk of relapse is minimized.
So, where to start treatment of pyoderma? In the photo below - a dandelion. This plant, familiar to many, is often considered a weed, but healers can talk about its powerful healing properties.
With pyoderma, dried rhizomes, plant leaves are used. A glass of boiling water should take a couple of teaspoons, boil the mixture for at least five minutes, then let it brew for eight hours. Before taking the medicine is heated. A single dosage is half a glass. The medicine is used before a meal.
There are many herbs that can help if pyoderma treatment is necessary against the background of symptoms. In the photo, for example, nettle. Use it as a tea brew, eat daily as soon as you want to drink. Especially pronounced effect of nettle tea with boils, suppuration.
You can use a decoction of rye grains for food. This medicine is recommended for a chronic form of the disease. The broth is consumed several times a day.
There are many options
Treatment of pyoderma with folk remedies involves the use of yarrow. Take a glass of boiling water for a couple of tablespoons, insist the mixture for an hour, then drain the water and use it for compresses. Gauze swabs soaked in infusion are applied to the affected areas of the skin.
There are several options for using smokers. From a fresh plant, you can squeeze juice, which is also used for lotions. A piece of cotton wool is wetted in the liquid, applied to the damaged areas. Another option is an ointment for the treatment of pyoderma. On a tablespoon of dried leaves will be 50 g of petroleum jelly, mix thoroughly. The medicine is smeared on diseased skin.
Calamus roots are mixed with sunflower oil (liquids are ten times more than plants), boiled for a third of the hour, allowed to cool, decanted and taken as a tablespoon of food. The optimal program is twice before a meal until complete recovery. Another option for using the oil is to mix it with celandine in the proportions similar to the above, apply the medicine to lubricate the affected areas of the skin.
How beautiful there are always birches in the photo! With the symptoms of pyoderma, treatment of adults and children can be practiced using the buds, leaves, juice of this wonderful tree, which is not in vain considered one of the symbols of our country. The simplest option, it is also the most effective is a medicine on birch buds. A glass of water is taken on a tablespoon of the product, boiled for a third of an hour, allowed to cool, then the water is drained and used to treat the affected areas.
Simple and effective tools can be made from other available products. For example, beets are peeled, ground, and the slurry is applied to purulent inflammation. It is no harder to use potatoes: the root crop is also peeled and chopped, applied to gauze, fixed with a bandage on the affected area and left for two hours, after which the mass is replaced with a new one.
Efficient and easy
Above you can see aloe (in the material there is a photo). With symptoms of pyoderma, treatment using this plant is possible in the form of tincture. Daily sick areas are wiped with a drug. Aloe shows the greatest effectiveness in the presence of suppuration.
Viburnum juice is mixed with water (a couple of tablespoons per glass), the diseased areas are wiped with the finished composition. Another option for external use is an infusion of dill seeds (pre-crushed). On a glass of water - a tablespoon of the product. Dill is poured with boiling water and insisted for 10 minutes.
It is believed that a mixture of strawberries, walnuts, and violets will benefit. A series is added to the composition. An infusion is prepared taking into account the following proportions: per liter of water - 50 g of a mixture of herbs. Pour dry product with boiling water, insist for half an hour, decant the liquid and use it for food. A single dose - half a glass, frequency - up to six times a day.
On a glass of boiling water take a tablespoon of a mixture of an equal amount of burdock, elecampane, walnut (foliage). All boil together for 10 minutes, then decant the liquid and use it for food. Dosage - a glass. Between receptions should be maintained for three hours.
For a couple of glasses of carefully ground poplar buds, take half a glass of vegetable oil, let it brew for a day, boil over low heat, wait for cooling. The finished drug is used on the affected areas, lubricating the skin with it.
A good local treatment option is a mixture of wax, spruce resin, butter. The components are taken in equal volumes, the affected area is smeared with a mixture.
Finally, folk healers can recommend alcohol with garlic. The products are taken in equal amounts, the root crop is crushed into gruel. The medicine is used for local treatment of festering areas, three layers of gauze are applied on top and fixed with a bandage. The drug will dry the skin, open the pores, and prevent the multiplication of pathological microorganisms. The dressing is changed three times daily. They use the medicine until a full recovery is achieved.
An integrated approach is the key to success
Unfortunately, there is no unique recipe that describes which treatment of pyoderma is suitable for everyone (and even demonstrated in the photo!). In adults, children, the disease is often provoked by insufficiently responsible observance of hygiene rules, but this factor is far from the only one. After analyzing the patient’s condition, the doctor will be able to understand which items should be included in the therapy. It can be:
- treatment of the underlying disease;
- the exclusion of aggressive factors that inhibit the health of the skin;
- prescribing a specific diet;
- prohibition of certain procedures;
- taking medication;
- hygienic and sanitary measures for the treatment of foci of inflammation.
Quite often, pyoderma is observed due to an imbalance of hormonal levels, endocrine disorders and improper metabolism, low immunity. In these cases, it is shown to begin treatment of the main disease, while at the same time using means to ease the symptoms of pyoderma. By eliminating or smoothing the effect on the body of the main problem, you can get rid of skin rashes.
Sometimes pyoderma provokes:
- overheat;
- hypothermia;
- mud;
- chemical substances;
- wounds.
Treatment of the disease involves the exclusion of all these factors, otherwise no course, even the most powerful drugs, will produce a result.
During therapy, it is necessary to eat protein foods, avoiding carbohydrates. Sour-milk products and fiber-rich vegetables, fruits are shown. To alleviate local manifestations of pyoderma, the affected areas are washed twice daily with salicylic alcohol.
The nuances of treatment
If pyoderma is accompanied by inflammation of the follicles, conflicts, ostiofolliculitis, the patient is shown the procedure for opening purulent formations. It is carried out strictly in sterile conditions using a special needle, after which the surfaces are carefully treated with brilliant green. If pyoderma develops in the form of sycosis, the mustache and beard can only be removed strictly by hand.
Staphyloderma requires the use of ichthyol. The drug is applied to ripening abscesses, and after opening them, dressings are used with a special medication solution (chosen by the doctor). When the pus comes off, you can use antibiotics in the form of an ointment. With impetigo, the resulting crusts are treated with fucorcin, supplementing the course with antimicrobial agents. A widespread synthomycin emulsion and:
Sometimes patients are prescribed antimicrobial drugs of systemic influence. Indications for such therapy will be:
- heat;
- intoxication;
- large areas of infection;
- inflammation of the lymph nodes;
- lymphangitis;
- purulent inflammation on the face.
The most widely used penicillin products are Amoxiclav and its analogues, as well as drugs containing erythromycin and chloramphenicol. To increase the efficiency, the patient is shown multivitamin complexes, immunostimulants. If pyoderma is very difficult, take staphylococcal toxoid.
Factors and Methods
The optimal course of treatment is chosen, taking into account not only the form of the disease, but also the age of the patient. The hardest thing is for small children. The localized form is usually eliminated at home, but strictly following the doctor's recommendations. To control recovery, you will definitely have to visit a doctor.
With pyoderma in a newborn, foci of inflammation are treated with antiseptics, antibiotics. Apply alcohol, aniline preparations, calendula in the form of tincture (sold at any pharmacy), salicylic acid. If the sites itch and swell, the child is given antihistamines. A specific option is chosen based on the permissibility of its use by young children. The exact instructions for age restrictions are in the instructions for use.
If at the same time the baby has several foci of inflammation, ointments with antimicrobial components (tetracycline, metronidazole, erythromycin) are used. With boils, which appeared in a small amount, at a distance from each other, Vishnevsky ointment and other drugs are shown that are effective for foci of suppuration.
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You can choose the most successful antibiotic if you previously check the sensitivity of microflora to different substances. Based on this, a decision is made in favor of cephalosporin, penicillin, macrolides, fluoroquinolones or other groups. There are such cases when pyoderma was provoked by pathological microscopic life forms that are resistant to most of the known modern drugs.
In this case, the doctor prescribes combined means, regularly checks the effectiveness of the course.
Most often, pyoderma is provoked by staphylococci, which means that drugs developed against these pathogenic microorganisms will show the best effect. Modern patients are available:
- antistaphylococcal plasma;
- gamma globulin.
With the help of such substances, the body's artificial resistance to the pathogen is formed.
To increase the body's defenses, a child is prescribed to a patient:
- phototherapy;
- autohemotherapy;
- physiotherapy.
There may be situations when an operation to remove a purulent formation is indicated. This is more typical of cases when the doctor diagnoses hydradenitis, furunculosis, carbuncles.
Pyoderma on the face
The peculiarity of this localization is the complexity of the fight against it, the increased risk of infection by pathological microflora of internal systems and vital organs. Medical statistics show that more often on the face of pyoderma appears in young women. The disease comes unpredictably, rapidly progressing. More often, rashes are localized on:
Occasionally, other parts may be affected.
The diseased areas of the skin first redden and swell, after a couple of days numerous pustules appear here. Skin pathology brings a lot of unpleasant sensations and impressions, well-being worsens, sleep is disturbed. Patients are apathetic, no appetite. In some cases, pyoderma can be cured in a month, but there are also difficult situations when the course is extended for a year. For therapy, hormonal ointments and creams that stop inflammatory processes are usually used.