Rash from the original features, onset, duration of view, is typical of pityriasis rosea rash disease. Disease is more common. Of unknown etiology, was considered to be caused by viruses, but never confirmed.
The basic reporting of the disease is spotted harm. Before onset, often appear first trunk of a large round or oval patches, light red or brown, about 3
Overview
Pityriasis rosea is a common skin rash in young adults. Symptoms of itchy lesions (mild and severe); skin damage or rashCenters wrinkled (cigarette paper) appearance; lesions like is connected to the edge and center of the scale to loosen; line or after cutting may appear in the "Christmas tree" pattern; May spread; oval-shaped plaques, papules, or erythema, Sharp boundary (edge); with a single (precursor) lesions after the start of several days, more lesions;, skin redness or inflammation; treatment if there is only mild symptoms Without treatment, you may need . gentle bathing, mild lubricants or oil, or mild hydrocortisone cream can be used to relieve inflammation. Antihistamines, oral, can be used to reduce the itching . moderate sunlight or ultraviolet light treatment may help to make lesions disappear faster. However, care must be taken to avoid sunburn causes .
Pityriasis rosea is considered to be caused by a virus. It usually occurs in autumn and spring. Although pityriasis rosea may occur in a family of more than one person at a time, it is not considered highly contagious attacks usually last . 4 - 8 weeks. Symptoms may disappear for 3 weeks or last as long as 12 weeks. Usually have a large patch (herald patch), the number of days after the rash . test and diagnose your health care provider can usually diagnose pityriasis rosea by the way the rash looks. Blood test may need to exclude the form of syphilis, which can cause similar rash. Sometimes, you may need to confirm the diagnosis of skin biopsies predict .
Pityriasis rosea is often lost in 6 - 12 weeks. It usually will not come back . Prevention
Contact a doctor when complications
For your health care provider make a reservation, if you have symptoms of pityriasis rosea .
Is not too small to see skin, but more the general public is not well known or skin specialist. It occurs in larger temperature changes in spring and autumn, occur in age from children, youth, middle-aged are male, women are likely to occur. Life in general will only attack once, but about 3% of patients will relapse. Now considered unlikely to be infectious disease, but the literature on family members or community of small popular reports.
The cause of pityriasis rosea is not yet very clear, some research suggests may be associated with certain viruses, but not yet fully determined. Some cases of pityriasis rosea is caused by drugs.
Before the onset of a small number of peop
These plaques, symmetrically distributed mainly in the neck, torso front, back, and limbs of the proximal, distal limbs, relatively few, very few will be sent to his face to go. Focus on the most important observation is that these oval-shaped lesion in the neck, chest, abdomen or thigh front side, the distribution looks like a "V" shaped. After the distribution in the back, looks like the "eight" shape, showing a Christmas tre
Symptoms, 75% of patients have mild to moderate itching. But at higher temperatures, such as a large number of sweat or a hot bath, feeling the itch will become more apparent.
Most patients recover on their own, usually around the first two weeks, the rash reaches a maximum, and then will gradually decrease, six to eight weeks to disappear. Even if patients or their families have been fully informed of the course of the disease, many patients still do not trust, that no effective medicine physician, how rash the longer more? Treatment began looking for other doctors, and finally triple, four weeks later, found a "very powerful doctor ", a treatment, the rash slowly faded, in fact, the rash is only just finish the course of the walk only. However, there are very few patients, the course will be delayed for months or even years to recover.
