Eczema is one of the unpleasant skin diseases in which the skin is dry, itchy, skin rashes and scabs are characteristic. In adults, eczema is most often located on the hands, skin of the forearms, face, feet, legs. First there is swelling, itching, and then small vesicles appear on the body. Eczema usually lasts a long time, periods of relapse alternate with periods of remission and can go into a chronic form. It is better to entrust the treatment of eczema on the hands to a dermatologist.
If you have eczema on your hands, avoid using soap, as well as significant contact with hot water, it is forbidden to use cleaning products. If you use immunomodulating drugs, you can control the inflammatory process of the skin. The use of antifungal drugs and antiviral, antibiotics will help reduce the area of the affected area and relieve swelling itself.
The most basic rule for any eczema is their protection from sunlight and the light itself, as they contribute to an increase in eczema. In order to avoid this, you need to constantly apply bandages and bandages to the affected areas. In addition to this method, the treatment of eczema on the hands of any attending physician also prescribes special ointments that help to carefully separate the crusts from the sore spots. These types of ointments include Dr. Lassard's paste and Dr. Rabov's ointment. Applying a special moisturizer is a very simple, but absolutely necessary point in the comprehensive treatment of eczema. The skin of your hands should be constantly moisturized.
Alternative treatment of eczema on the hands:
During the period of exacerbation, compresses of 0.25% silver nitrate solution or 25% tannin solution are used. During the period of remission, it is necessary to sanitize the foci of infection and undergo treatment for concomitant diseases, because there can be many reasons that could cause eczema. These are digestive disorders, stress, nervous exhaustion and microbes. Cases of skin reaction to any allergen (detergents, cleaners, and so on) are not excluded.
To reduce skin reactions and to cleanse the body, as well as increase its resistance, medicinal herbs are treated:
1. A soothing effect will give an infusion of motherwort herb (17 g of herb per 230 ml of water). You should try to take this infusion at least 3 times a day with a dessert spoon.
The same effect will give an infusion of valerian roots (6 g of roots in 220 ml of water). Take the same.
2. To strengthen the body, take an extract of Eleutherococcus alcohol in 20 drops (dilute in water), in the morning before meals (half an hour).
3. To cleanse the body, we apply the following collection: we take 10 g of a sheet of nettle, sage, plantain, corn stigmas, add 16 g of yarrow grass, then add St. John's wort and horsetail, and another 5 g of wormwood.
We prepare the infusion and take it in a glass about three times a day, preferably before meals.
It is also necessary to adjust the nutrition: exclude salty foods, smoked meats, sweets. Include carrots, cabbage, black radish, apples, boiled or stewed meat, cottage cheese, eggs in the diet.
4. We take baths with the addition of a decoction of horsetail, oak bark, string, plantain leaf, burdock roots, which relieve inflammation and itching.
Lotions from a decoction of geranium leaves also help with eczema. They must be boiled over low heat for at least an hour, then applied warmly to the affected areas.
Now you know how to cure eczema on your hands. But you should not forget about going to the doctor. If home recipes do not help, then you need to seek help from a specialist. Treatment of eczema on the hands alone will take quite a while. The main thing is to get qualified help on time. The home treatment result is much longer.