Can you take a bath for psoriasis? Is it much better to wash and scrub? I have found that many skin disease patients have a common problem, that is, they love to be too clean and over-clean. Especially for psoriasis patients, the scales fall off a lot every day, and the skin is dry, hard and itchy.
Many people will say that taking a hot bath or taking a bath, rubbing and rubbing, rubbing off the "dead skin", soaking the skin thoroughly, feeling a lot more comfortable on the body, and not feeling so dirty. There are many people who come to the doctor, just because they love to take a bath, which makes it worse and worse!
I often tell psoriasis patients in clinical practice that I don't wash it, I don't call it anything, I don't let me take a bath, no matter where I put it, I am not allowed to wash it!
Seeing my request like this, many people expressed their incomprehension. Some friends who don't know the truth, after seeing my popular science content on the Internet, will attack me, saying that I am a quack doctor and don't understand anything. When I saw it, I was quite angry! I was in my seventies, a lot of age, and I was doing popular science every day just to make more people take fewer detours and spend less money, but as a result, I was not understood, and I was also suspected by some "self-righteous" patients. I would also like to state here that if you don't believe it, you can paddle it away now, and if you think it makes sense, let's move on.
Why am I so strict? I will tell you the following reasons, and you will understand my good intentions.
Generally, the skin metabolism cycle of normal people is 28 days, that is, it takes 28 days from the production of new cells to the decay, while the skin metabolism cycle of psoriasis patients is 3-5 days, the metabolic cycle is very short, and the epithelial cells divide quickly.
For psoriasis patients, the skin barrier itself is more easily damaged than the average person, you say that if you stimulate it again, you use hot water to rinse, wash and rub it, it is more powerful, it will cause the symptoms to worsen.
If you really can't stand it, my request to patients is to wash at most once a week, look at the watch, within one minute, the water temperature is appropriate, don't rub, just flush.
Psoriasis bathing, what to pay attention to?
1. After psoriasis patients take a bath, the dandruff on the surface of the skin is washed away by water, so psoriasis patients will feel unbearable itchy skin. Patients are advised not to scratch the skin with their hands to avoid scratching the skin to form a wound that could eventually cause infection.
2. Psoriasis patients should wash their skin gently with their hands when taking a bath, and do not use too much force, otherwise the epithelial cells of the skin will be damaged, and the wound of the skin will be infected by bacteria.
3. It is not advisable to take a bath for a long time. Because the patient's skin is in a state of peeling, the skin is relatively thin. If soaked in water for a long time, it can make the patient's skin more fragile and eventually lead to skin bleeding. What I ask for is less than a minute, rinse is appropriate.
4. When patients take a bath, the temperature of the bath water should be appropriate, between 35 °C and 39 °C, which is the most suitable for bathing psoriasis patients without irritating the skin.
What does the skin do to the body?
The skin barrier we usually talk about is a physical barrier, which is composed of sebaceous film, stratum corneum keratin, lipids, and a "sandwich" structure, which can resist harmful external irritants and sunlight, and has moisturizing and anti-inflammatory effects.
For people with psoriasis, damage to the physical barrier of the skin can lead to dryness and aging of the skin, resulting in a buildup of keratinocytes and scales.
The skin's ability to resist external stimuli decreases, and it is easy to induce or aggravate psoriasis when stimulated, forming a vicious circle!
Excessive cleansing, such as frequent washing or the use of excessively powerful cleansing methods, can damage the lipid film of the skin and make the skin lose its protection.
A large amount of dandruff is shed, how to supplement nutrition?
Many patients come to see a doctor, saying that they have desquamation every day, will they be malnourished, how to supplement nutrition?
My request to the patient: Don't eat good! One egg a day, followed by steamed vegetable soup, rice and noodles.
One egg a day is mainly to replenish the protein lost in the body, and the main component of the dander we lose is protein, so we should replenish it in time.
Hopefully, the above advice will be helpful for psoriasis sufferers. In addition, you should pay more attention in your daily life. Don't eat spicy, greasy, and irritating foods in your diet, and drink plenty of plain water to effectively help detoxify the body. Listening to what I've said so much, do you think psoriasis should be bathed?
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