Folliculitis

Hair follicles are normally found on the skin, hair follicles that produce hairs, sweat glands in the hair follicles and sweat and secretions. hypothermia. When the substance is excreted too much associated with the infection will cause folliculitis. There are many causes of hair follicles, according to skin scientists, with three main culprits, and up to 90% of follicular inflammation is due to:

1. The horn of the skin is too thick so that when the skin has more dead cells accumulate causing horns. This condition occurs mostly in winter, the winter to the skin is often dry and lack of moisture makes the rate of horns higher.

2. The legs are too weak and fragile, may not penetrate the hard and thick skin to grow on the surface of the skin, which also causes the sedimentation of the residue due to not escape will be retained and cause inflammation.

Due to innate and genetic, there are some patients with pimples who are inherited from their parents, since birth, you have to live with the disease.

Symptoms, hair folliculitis is quite diverse and has many causes, most commonly due to germs, the most common age in adolescence, usually manifested by skin lesions with small papules Emerging from the hair follicles, initially pink, later chronic is usually deep black color, each hair follicle is a papule.

The disease usually does not go away from nature, if treated the disease will gradually disappear, the papules disappeared, the skin less red and clean but disease is very easy to relapse.

On topical treatment, topical medications such as Fucidine 2% or Dalacin T, applied twice daily morning and afternoon. Drugs can use one of the drugs, antibiotics against infections like Clindamycine, Minoxycycline ... If patients with itch include anti-pruritic medicinal products such as: Loratadine, Chlorpheniramine, Cetirizine ... Today also treated hair follicles with 3G technology to absorb melanin to reduce blackheads, this technology is a combination of IPL and RF waves, able to absorb melanin on the skin, help to brighten the skin, remedy bruising and scarring. .

In conclusion, folliculitis does not affect health, but it makes the patient very uncomfortable due to loss of esthetics, the treatment is difficult because of recurrence.

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