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Skin redness causes, home remedies and prevention
contents
- symptoms
- Causes of skin redness
- Sensible skin
- menopause
- rosacea
- plant poison
- acne
- allergies
- Which diseases lead to skin redness?
- The Curse of the Celts - The Face Rose
- Light skin is a risk factor
- How does Rosacea develop??
- Home remedies for sunburn
- Skin redness with fever
- Hand, foot and mouth disease
- insect bites
- prevention
symptoms
Redness is often associated with other symptoms. Very common is an itchy rash, namely, when the reason for the redness is an allergy such as hay fever, an infection, whether by bacteria, fungi or viruses. Pain also occurs, especially if the skin becomes red due to an injury, bruise, sprain or fracture. In infections and wounds the red area feels hot.
Reasons for red patches on the skin may be, for example, an allergy or eczema. (Image: Ольга Тернавская / fotolia.com) Causes of skin redness
The change in skin color can have very different causes. Thus, the skin reddened when the blood vessels expand. This happens when we make a physical effort, get upset, get angry, feel ashamed, or are sexually aroused. The blood vessels also dilate when we drink alcohol, and even then we turn red. Chronic alcoholism, however, leads to a permanent reddening of the skin. Dry heating also causes blood vessels to expand, and nicotine may be the trigger.
Common causes of redness include mental reactions, infections, sunburn, toxins and allergies.
Exanthema usually arise from infections, either in the body or directly on the skin. These include viruses and bacteria as well as the side effects of medications and allergies. Rarely, there are no infectious inflammations known as "eczema".
These can be vascular inflammations, autoimmune diseases or systemic diseases. If the redness affects only a limited area, for example on the lips, the pathogen probably comes from the outside, contact dermatitis and fungal infections are typical.
Psychosomatic redness is also common: the skin then responds to mental problems and negative stress.
Sensible skin
Sensitive skin is not a disease and can not be "cured". Often, it is naturally dry, as its protection from the outside world is weaker than with a moist skin.
People with sensitive skin are intensely sensitive to a variety of external stimuli: They suffer from fungal attack quickly, they are often allergic to cosmetics, and spicy food causes itching on the face. Some people even experience redness when they take a shower, hot or cold.
Sensitive skin needs special care, for example with special creams, after a dermatologist has determined the fat and moisture content of the skin. Generally, sufferers should not stay in the sun for long, avoid sauna and hot showers.
menopause
Especially women over 40 often blush on the nose and cheeks. These relapses are probably a consequence of menopause. Those affected have hot flashes, the skin itches and burns. Only when the control of the blood vessels is disturbed, the redness remains. Then the facial veins will not close automatically.
Trigger are spicy food, alcohol, heat or cold as psycho-emotional triggers (stress, anger, shame or excitement).
The couperose is characterized by permanently reddened facial skin with visible veins. (Image: Milan Lipowski / fotolia.com) rosacea
Couperose shows up in dilated blood vessels. The blood shimmers through the skin in blue-red-violet colors. This may additionally inflame and be speckled with blisters, pimples and knots.
The cause of the skin disease is unclear. In any case, it is associated with connective tissue weakness, and women over 50 are most commonly affected. Self-help means avoiding the same triggers as a facial rose: sauna, extreme temperatures, hot drinks, alcohol, chilli and pepper, sun and sunlamps.
If visible capillaries are particularly disturbed, the dermatologist may soil them or "weld" the vessels with a light treatment..
plant poison
The Riesenbärenklau, also called Herkuleskeule, is one of the plants that should not even be touched with kid gloves: touch the white-flowering beauty, the skin itches, it reddens and forms wheals; The suffering sometimes lasts for weeks. The wounds are wet like burns and the symptoms are like third-degree burns. The perennial contains phototoxic substances that react to sunlight. The wounds heal severely, and scars and pigmentation are the result.
The poison of the Bärenklaus also gets into the air. That's why you should never stand next to the plant on hot summer days if you do not want to catch bronchitis. Two related species, hogweed and angelica have the same effect.
acne
Acne is the most common condition that manifests as redness and often causes mental health problems. "Normal" pimples, which are commonly found in adolescents, join in pus-filled pustules and nodules. Above all, the face looks like a "crumb cake", but the bumps also cover the back, chest and other body parts.
Mostly affected are young people, especially adolescents. This is one of the reasons why acne often causes mental health problems: just in the time when the hormones of those affected are in full swing, and the sexual desire awakens in which they want to look attractive on sexual partners, they suffer from skin problems that are not commonly considered "sexy " be valid.
Red spots, pimples and pus wheals: Acne often causes mental health problems in adolescents. (Image: Africa Studio / fotolia.com) allergies
Red spots on the face can be triggered by allergies. Responsible today is especially an excess of care. The perioral dermatitis is manifested by blisters around the mouth. Anyone who damages his skin with too many creams and lotions robs them of the ability to produce endogenous fats. The skin dries up; as an antidote, many sufferers again use creams and thus increase the symptoms.
Which diseases lead to skin redness?
Disease states with a acute skin redness are connected:
1) Infectious rashes, for example those caused by viruses
2) Angioedema
3) Hereditary angioedema
4) Systemic scleroderma
5) Acute nettle fever (urticaria)
6) Contact allergic or toxic eczema. This includes acute eczema after hair coloring or sunburn (excessive UV radiation)
7) The so-called gneiss is called medically seborrheic dermatitis: greasy scales and red rash on the face are typical. Affected are men and infants. First, the rash on face and head proliferates, then it spreads on the body. The cause is unknown.
To distinguish from an acute facial redness and swelling is the chronic redness and facial swelling. Typical diseases are here:
1) Rosacea erythematosa
2) Rosacea fulminans
3) acne conglobata
4) acne fulminans
The Curse of the Celts - The Face Rose
If her facial skin is not only reddish in color, but firstly, the blood vessels are also visible, and the skin burns like a sting, then it could be rosacea. Rosacea is an inflammatory skin disease that mainly affects the forehead, nose, chin and cheeks. Around 4 million people in Germany suffer from it, but only a few know that it is this disease.
The inflammation shows in a chronic redness, but also as nodules, blisters, with visible veins and swelling in the face. The symptoms are reminiscent of acne or allergy, with which rosacea is therefore often confused.
Light skin is a risk factor
Rosacea is known as the "curse of the Celts". Inflammation is rampant, especially in northern Europe, Scandinavia and the UK. But not the wet cold weather is responsible for that, but the fair skin with reddish or blond hair and blue, green or gray eyes and freckles.
How does Rosacea develop??
Science still does not know the cause of the "facial rose". Since it is an inflammation, probably a disorder of nerve control, a congenital immunodeficiency or a reaction to external stimuli responsible.
With facial rose, the skin does not adequately produce a particular protein, which in turn is part of our immune system. Demodex mites settle to a high degree on a skin attacked by rosacea. To date, however, it is unclear whether the mites visit the affected skin after the disease has broken out, or if they cause the inflammation itself.
The skin of the patient becomes extremely red when exposed to sunlight (UV radiation), hot spices, alcohol or a change in temperature. The skin reacts hypersensitive. Again, the cause and effect is not clear: In any case, the skin of patients reacts hypersensitive. But is a hypersensitive skin perhaps also a cause of the disease?
Many symptoms of the facial rose show up as an extreme reaction to stimuli, which also cause blushes in healthy people.
Skin redness as a result of sunburn can be well prevented by appropriate protective measures. (Image: fotoduets / fotolia.com) Home remedies for sunburn
Take care of good sun protection, wear a hat, stay in the shade. Put on long shirts with long sleeves. In case of sunburn, we should leave the sun, cover the skin, drink a lot and cool the skin - with showers or wet towels. Juice of aloe vera and cold black tea on the burnt spots helps, as well as quark wrap and yogurt or a porridge made of water and healing earth.
Oak bark, arnica and sea buckthorn oil as gel or with water support the healing, as well as cold cucumber slices are a helpful home remedy for sunburn.
However, prevention is better. Antioxidants protect the skin from the inside, for example in tomatoes, peppers, carrots, cabbage and fennel. Matching clothing: A headgear, long sleeves and stay in the shade, combined with sunscreen, prevents sunburn.
Skin redness with fever
Many feverish diseases are associated with reddened skin. These include rubella, measles, chickenpox, scarlet fever, the three-day fever and the ring rubella. The specific redness is in these diseases even each leading symptom.
Rubella (Rubella) is pea-sized, bright red spots. These spread from the head down. Patients otherwise show symptoms similar to flu, but approximately half of the patients lack the rash.
Measles mark red spots, which are small at first, and then become larger. They also spread from the head. The other measles symptoms are well different from rubella. White spots form on the cheek mucosa.
Scarlet, on the other hand, has many but tiny exanthemas, which are also not bright red as in rubella, but scarlet, hence the name. The cheeks turn crimson, while the mouth and chin retain their normal color.
In chickenpox, the small red spots turn into bubbles filled with fluid. This is clear at first, but then assumes a milky color. They dry and form crusts. In a chickenpox infection red spots, blisters and crusts are scattered on the skin at the same time. The vernacular refers to the sight as a "starry sky".
Chickenpox is characterized by a strong itchy rash that spreads throughout the body. (Image: Dan Race / fotolia.com) In the case of a three-day fever, which affects very small children, the rash follows a fever; It does not develop until the fever falls after about three days. The skin lesions are very small and very bright compared to measles, rubella and chickenpox.
Ring rubella is a typical disease of pre-primary and primary school children. The face reddened here in the shape of a butterfly with outstretched wings, then the rash "curls" from there like a garland over the body.
Hand, foot and mouth disease
The hand-foot-mouth disease is characterized by red spots in the mouth, on the hand and on the soles of the feet. The blisters on the skin do not hurt, in the mouth all the more. Fever, stomach ache and nausea are added.
The sick child should enjoy food above all cold and fluid; Cottage cheese, yoghurt and porridge are suitable. It should not eat or drink anything that contains acid, as it attacks the weakened oral mucosa, so no fruit juices, no acidic fruit or vinegar.
This viral infection is transmitted by droplets and is highly contagious. The infection site is usually the kindergarten.
insect bites
Anyone who is allergic to insect bites, for example, then feels heat waves throughout the body - even the area around the puncture heats up and reddens and swells strongly.
prevention
If you suffer from recurring redness, you can relieve the symptoms. Keep a diary of when their skin reddened and what they did (after playing tennis, after the sauna, before meeting with the boss)?
Did you feel stressed and reddened your skin? If so, what was the trigger for the stress and how can it be avoided? Have you tried a new make-up and looked like a strawberry cake afterwards? Change the preparation.
Do you have red spots on your forehead after jogging? Do the blood hit their faces during strength training? Even when it's difficult: replace the full power by relaxed cycling or longer walks.
Avoid sun. Take care of good sun protection, wear a hat, stay in the shade. Put on long shirts with long sleeves. (Dr. Utz Anhalt)
Specialist supervision: Barbara Schindewolf-Lensch (doctor)
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