How to treat a child's lichen?

When a child has such a dermatological disease as a lichen, mothers think about how to cure it. Under this disease is understood as a fungal lesion of the baby's skin, which develops mainly in the warm season. It appears in the appearance of spots in the place of accumulation of a large number of sweat glands. Most often they have a pale pink shade and are localized on the legs, abdomen, shoulders, and also on the scalp of the child.

Because of what does the child develop lichen?

The main reason why there is lichen in children is the ingestion of the fungus, or the virus. Most often, infection occurs when you visit collective places, such as kindergarten, school, swimming pool, and also in close contact with animals.

How is lichen in children treated?

Effective treatment depriving children will not do without medical assistance. As a rule, local therapy is carried out, including the use of special ointments and creams, which are applied to the affected areas of the skin.

Parents are required to comply with the following conditions:

• for the duration of treatment, remove soft toys;
• The underwear of a sick child must be washed separately, and also carefully treated with steam when ironing;
• daily clean with disinfection room in which the child is.
• Often, in the treatment of children depriving resort to the use of folk remedies.

For example, in order to get rid of the ringworm, rye flour is often applied on the affected areas of the skin.

In addition, it perfectly helps in the fight against the deprivation of tar, to which the egg white protein is added and the resulting ointment is applied directly to the lichen.

Thus, it is possible to quickly cure the lichen from a child only through complex therapy and the use of medicines prescribed by a dermatologist.