What is chloasma like?

What is chloasma like? Chloasma is a skin condition that mainly occurs on the face, and it is also a common skin problem. In life, boys and girls have chloasma on their faces more or less. What pictures of chloasma are there below?

What is chloasma like? Photo 1 In life, be careful not to be exposed to the sun for a long time, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and eat less spicy food. Keep cheerful, exercise more, actively treat chronic liver and kidney diseases, correct irregular menstruation and regulate endocrine dysfunction. As for the treatment of facial chloasma, in addition to the treatment of freckle by Lido experts, we should pay more attention to the regulation of endocrine. Experts pointed out that the nervous system, endocrine system and digestive and excretory system are the three main systems of the human body, which maintain the normal operation of various functions of the human body. These three systems are interrelated and interdependent. Once they are out of balance, they will be integrated. Since facial chloasma is directly related to the endocrine system of human body, it is necessary to prevent and treat facial chloasma.

Extended reading: chloasma symptoms

Skin lesions are light brown or yellowish brown spots with clear boundaries and irregular shapes, which are symmetrically distributed around the eyes, forehead, eyebrow arch, nose, cheeks, lips and mouth, and there are no conscious symptoms and general discomfort.

The face with chloasma is painless, but it doesn't mean it's just skin pigmentation. It reflects the internal function of the body, and it is a kind of information reflected in the face by internal diseases. Therefore, the treatment of facial chloasma needs external treatment and internal nourishment, synchronous and comprehensive endocrine regulation, and correction of disordered endocrine function, so as to achieve the effect of treating both the symptoms and root causes without recurrence.

What is chloasma like?

1, slow onset

Chloasma, a skin disease, develops slowly and the course of disease is difficult to determine, which can last for months or years. Patients often have no conscious symptoms, so that they can't find the disease early.

2. The distribution of chloasma

The lesions of chloasma are confined to the exposed parts of the skin, often distributed in the face, mainly in the cheeks, nose, forehead and chin, occasionally accompanied by areola and external genital pigmentation.

3. Color of chloasma

Lesions are usually flaky pigment spots formed by the fusion of light brown, gray, brownish gray, brownish black or even dark blue gray spots.

4. The edge of chloasma

Most lesions of chloasma have clear boundaries. When there is less pigmentation, its edge is not very clear, but diffuse distribution. When there is more pigmentation, a clear boundary can be seen. There is no scale and infiltration on the surface of chloasma, and it is generally not accompanied by other stop losses such as erythema.

5. The size of chloasma

They vary in size and number, and can form arc-shaped or multi-ring lesions, which are distributed in a linear or comet-divergent way and symmetrically occur on the face. There are many people with serious chloasma.

Extended reading: the etiology of chloasma

The etiology is not clear, and it is more common in women. The high level of estrogen in the blood is the main reason. Its incidence is related to pregnancy, long-term oral contraceptives and menstrual disorders. It is also found in some female patients with reproductive system diseases, tuberculosis, cancer, chronic alcoholism, liver disease and so on. Sunlight will promote disease. Male patients account for about 10%, and some studies believe that male morbidity is related to heredity.

What is chloasma like? Fig. 2 How to get rid of chloasma

1, laser freckle-freckle with advanced laser equipment;

2, removing spots with fruit acid-peeling the epidermis with high concentration of fruit acid is safer and more reliable than the previous chemical peeling, and achieves the purpose of "changing skin";

3, grinding freckle-mechanical grinding method, but in addition to surface spots;

4, acupuncture freckle-belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine, regulating meridians and improving human endocrine;

5, drug freckle-oral vitamin C, combined with intravenous vitamin C;

6, Chinese herbal medicine freckle-follow the principles of traditional Chinese medicine, take Chinese herbal medicine preparations with corresponding functions, paste Chinese herbal medicine masks, and freckle from the inside out. There are many ways to remove freckles, but the effect varies from person to person. At present, the safest and most effective way to eliminate chloasma during pregnancy is to choose freckle products in the field of traditional Chinese medicine, such as cosmeceuticals.

Extended reading: matters needing attention in removing chloasma

Be careful not to be exposed to the sun for a long time in life, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and eat less spicy food. Keep cheerful, exercise more, actively treat chronic liver and kidney diseases, correct irregular menstruation and regulate endocrine dysfunction. The treatment of chloasma should pay more attention to the regulation of endocrine besides freckle treatment. Nervous system, endocrine system and digestive and excretory system are the three main systems of human body, which maintain the normal operation of various functions of human body. These three systems are interrelated and interdependent. Once they lose their balance, they will unite. Because chloasma is directly related to the endocrine system of human body, we should pay attention to the prevention and treatment of chloasma with both hands!

What is chloasma like? Fig. 3 How to get rid of chloasma

1, tretinoin cream for external use. 65438+ 0 ~ 2 times a day, which has the effect of decoloration. At first, we should use the cream at a low concentration. Then the concentration can be gradually increased. However, it will also have side effects, mainly manifested as dry skin and desquamation, and it also has certain irritation. This medicine is often combined with other decolorants, such as compound tretinoin cream and arbutin, which can inhibit the activity of tyrosinase and reduce the production of melanin.

2, when going out, you can apply sunscreen, such as p-aminobenzoic acid and its esters, and pay attention to prevent allergic reactions when using it.

3, topical corticosteroids. Strong preparation, such as clobetasol, 65438+ 0 ~ 2 times a day. However, long-term use is prone to side effects, such as local skin atrophy and telangiectasia. It can also be treated with moderate corticosteroids, such as hydrocortisone butyrate, with less side effects.

4. In view of the deep dermis of the skin, chemical peeling is generally used if the effect of simple external use of decolorant is not obvious. Because high concentration of fruit acid is irritating to the skin. If trichloroacetic acid is used, the face should be cleaned before peeling and degreased with ether. After applying trichloroacetic acid, keep 1 ~ 2 minutes, thoroughly clean with cold water, and then apply 1% hydrocortisone ointment.

Extended reading: the characteristics of chloasma

1. It usually occurs around the cheekbones, forehead and mouth, showing a butterfly shape, so it is also called "butterfly spot".

2, the initial color, such as dirt, becomes light taupe or dark brown with time, and it is dull.

3, the size is uncertain, the edge of the spot is clear, the surface is smooth, there is no inflammatory reaction and no pain.

4. Regular use of oral contraceptives and pregnant women will cause "pregnancy spots" on the face, which is also a kind of chloasma.

5. Women with chloasma are usually accompanied by menstrual disorders, premenstrual bloating or chronic diseases.

6. Male patients with chloasma are often accompanied by impotence, premature ejaculation and gastrointestinal dysfunction.

7. sunburn caused by frequent sun exposure is also a kind of chloasma.