If, in the event of sunlight, a rash of a bright red color appears on the skin, then, most likely, you have photodermatitis. Simply put, this is the allergy to the sun. Someone can not eat a lot of sweet, someone has tears in the blossoming ambrosia, and someone can not fully sunbathe due to the fact that after sunbathing the pleasure will be much less than the problems.
Causes of sun dermatitis
Of course, the sun's rays themselves can not cause allergies. An allergic reaction occurs after the antigens appear on the skin under the influence of sunlight. The most common causes of photodermatitis are:
- Even an absolutely healthy person after an excessively long sun bath can begin an allergy.
- To promote allergies and household chemicals. If you use soap or a cream that contains unwanted chemical elements before going to the beach, most likely, the sunny dermatitis will make itself felt.
- Allergy sufferers are also at risk.
- Alas, photodermatitis can be inherited.
- Showing sunny dermatitis can even after a serious infectious disease, when the body is weakened. Well, if after restoration of immunity the allergy recedes, but sometimes it happens that the problem remains for life.
Symptoms of sun dermatitis
The rash that appears on the body with photodermatitis does not differ in any way from any other kind of allergy . And yet it is not difficult to recognize an allergy in the sun. The fact is that the reaction to the sun's rays does not take long to wait. If there is an allergy, then it will manifest itself in a few minutes.
The main symptoms of sun dermatitis are as follows:
- A small red rash appears on the skin. Sunny dermatitis appears on the face, arms, back - throughout the body. Often, rashes occur even in places that were protected from the sun.
- Sometimes a rash can be with pus. Thus pryshchki itch terribly.
- Photodermatitis is accompanied by severe burning and flaking.
- Affected areas of the skin with solar dermatitis swelling.
- General health deteriorates.
It is important to understand that if you neglect an allergy, it will gradually develop into a chronic form, and then there will be much more problems with its treatment, as well as from it, itself.
How to treat sunny dermatitis?
Of course, in a timely manner. After the first manifestation of photodermatitis, you should make an appointment with an allergist. The treatment prescribed by a specialist will be comprehensive:
- Be sure to limit the impact of sunlight. During treatment for sun dermatitis, it is best not to go outdoors on sunny days, to wear closed clothing. Of course, carefree and uncontrolled sunbathing at this moment will not work!
- To reduce and remove the allergic reaction, you need to drink antihistamines.
- Effectively saved during treatment from sun dermatitis and ointment. They quickly relieve inflammation, reduce itching and prevent peeling. What is true, ointments for sun dermatitis have many side effects.
- If the ointments failed to cope with the inflammation, then special medicines are started up. The most popular drugs: Indomethacin, Aspirin.
- One of the most important stages is the strengthening of immunity. You can take vitamin complexes, eat fruits, eat the right diet - everything will be good.
If you want to support the effect of treating sun dermatitis can be and folk remedies. Cucumber slices and fresh cabbage leaves will remove inflammation and swelling from the affected areas. Will be useful and herbal baths based on chamomile, sage, valerian, St. John's wort .