Neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation

Introduction to neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation Neurological epidermal exfoliation, also known as neuroepidermal erosion. Caused by unconsciously compulsive digging, scratching or rubbing your skin. The patient unconsciously forced himself to use his nails, chips, wires or other objects to buckle, dig, scrape, and scratch his skin. When the hand is easy to reach, there are often different forms of epidermal erosion. A little longer, there will be obvious pigmentation. basic knowledge The proportion of illness: 0.001% Susceptible people: no special people Mode of infection: non-infectious Complications: exfoliation syndrome

Neurological epidermal exfoliation etiology

Mental factors (20%):

Related to mental factors, often occur in neurasthenia or other mental patients, more common in women. Unconscious compulsive excavation, caused by the habit of scratching or rubbing your skin.

Neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation prevention

Eliminate incentives such as anxiety, nervousness, troubles; correct insomnia; avoid overwork and environmentally noisy adverse effects, the following measures can be taken:

First, often participate in sports activities as far as possible, such as playing Tai Chi, exercise, and enhance physical fitness;

Second, life is regular, reasonable arrangements for life, try to achieve work and rest;

Third, avoid excessive tension, it is not appropriate to engage in work that lasts too long and has a high concentration of attention;

Fourth, severe insomnia can choose to use stability, Li Yining, Jiannao mixture, oryzanol, multivitamins, propranolol, etc., or the use of Chinese medicine spleen soup, cinnabar Anshen pills, berberine gum soup, Jiaotai pills, etc. Good results can be achieved.

Neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation complications Complications

Exfoliation, blood stasis, erosion, and even secondary infections.

Neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation symptoms Common symptoms Smelly sweaty bloody secondary infection ants walking feeling

More common in women, more face, neck, chest, back, limbs and other hands can touch the parts, because patients often feel conscious skin, foreign body sensation or smelly sweat phobia, etc., often constantly unconsciously scratch or Rubbing the skin, even using tweezers, scissors to pick the skin, so that local skin appears strip-like bulge, scratches, exfoliation, blood stasis, erosion, and even secondary infection, pigmentation, thickening of the epidermis, mossy The intermittent episode of the disease, before going to bed, the patient is difficult to restrain.

Examination of neurological epidermal exfoliation

The skin has ant colony, foreign body sensation or odor phobia.

Diagnosis and identification of neurofunctional epidermal exfoliation

According to the clinical manifestations, combined with the characteristics of the history can be diagnosed.

TCM syndrome differentiation: the heart is hot, depressed in blood, caused by the skin.

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