Application Note hormone creams

 Hormone ointment more types of skin diseases, their side effects and adverse reactions is greater. Many patients do not fully understand this, whatever the abuse of hormone creams, often counter-productive, adding to the disease. In practice, when the hormone cream, should be five know, the hormone drug should not be applied to all skin diseases. Because hormones are immunosuppressive drugs that can induce or aggravate the infection, so the viral, bacterial and fungal skin diseases do not apply. such as herpes simplex, tuberculosis skin, acne, hair follicles inflammation, tinea pedis, and tinea ringworm and other skin diseases, you can not use hormone creams, or can only aggravate the disease and delay treatment.
Second, do not bear fruit on the withdrawal of a long-term use of corticosteroids in patients with external agents can have a habit of dependence or addiction, long after use can not suddenly stop. prolonged use of corticosteroid creams after the withdrawal if necessary, the dosage should be gradually reduced until complete withdrawal.
Third, not long-term use of long-term heavy use of hormone creams, medication can occur in varying degrees part of skin atrophy, thinning, telangiectasia, skin flushing or produce petechia, ecchymosis, dry skin, ichthyosis-like black or showed a change, and hair loss , hirsutism, acne and other sex hormones.
four, not free to the children, the elderly or pregnant women, infants and children with relatively large surface area, so the hormone sensitive than adults. Therefore infants and children due may reduce the amount of drugs, only inefficient or non-hormone creams. associated with skin diseases in elderly patients with chronic diseases, hormone creams should be used with caution, especially hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, epilepsy and mental illness, in particular, should not be excessive use of these drugs.
prohibit the use of steroid ointment in early pregnancy. pregnant women is often associated with a variety of skin diseases, such as pregnancy, herpes, pregnancy, prurigo, itching, urticaria of pregnancy, etc., the course for several months after delivery of disease and relieve itself. after giving birth can also be selected as appropriate under the guidance of a doctor in the effect of oral and topical corticosteroid therapy, but avoid large quantities of drugs.
five, not when the skin care creams with hormones Ms. has made many a red rash that appears in the facial skin becomes smooth, so they do not think that hormones may also be skin-care creams, wiping his face every day. everyone knows, such as long-term use of hormone-containing ointment, not only damages the appearance, but will speed up the skin aging.
hormone creams can not be used indiscriminately, abuse, but it does not mean that can not be used. in the application of our drug indication should be strictly controlled. In general, treatment of early stage can be used efficiently for external use of corticosteroids, such as dexamethasone, betamethasone, triamcinolone, and Fuqing Song and so on, until his condition improved, the inefficient use of corticosteroids may be for external use, such as hydrocortisone, which can effectively prevent the occurrence of adverse reactions.