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Minyak Kelapa untuk Lichen Sclerosus?

by Caroline Knight in Peduli

Apakah Rawatan Terbaik untuk Lichen Sclerosus?

Lichen sclerosus adalah keadaan autoimun yang boleh menyebabkan masalah di seluruh badan, tetapi selalunya menjejaskan vulva. Ia menyebabkan perubahan warna kulit, menjadikannya putih dan bertompok-tompok. Ia boleh menjadi sangat gatal dan meradang, dan jika tidak dirawat boleh menipiskan kulit, atau membawa kepada parut, penebalan dan gabungan kulit dari masa ke masa. Ia juga boleh membawa kepada jangkitan lain, dan walaupun ia mungkin hilang dengan sendirinya, ia selalunya memerlukan rawatan. Jika anda menghadapi masalah untuk mengatasinya, anda mungkin tertanya-tanya apakah rawatan terbaik untuk lichen sclerosus.

Perlu diingat bahawa lichen sclerosus (LS) dianggap sebagai keadaan autoimun. Ini bermakna walaupun ia boleh hilang secara tiba-tiba, ia juga boleh kembali pada bila-bila masa. Ia mungkin disebabkan oleh tekanan, fungsi sistem imun yang rendah atau turun naik dalam hormon, dan bagi sesetengah wanita ia memerlukan rawatan sepanjang hayat atau sekurang-kurangnya, langkah berjaga-jaga yang berjaga-jaga.

Rawatan terbaik untuk lichen sclerosus

Rawatan perubatan: krim steroid

Doktor percaya bahawa rawatan terbaik untuk lichen sclerosus adalah salap dan krim kortikosteroid topikal. Ini mengandungi kortison, dan merupakan rawatan lichen sclerosus yang paling biasa ditetapkan. Sekiranya ini tidak berkesan, Doktor anda mungkin menetapkan salap tacrolimus (Protopic) atau Dermovate, satu lagi krim steroid yang kuat.

Sesetengah wanita mengalami kesukaran dengan rawatan sklerosis lichen perubatan kerana malangnya dengan penggunaan yang berpanjangan ia boleh menyebabkan penipisan kulit vulva.

Rawatan semulajadi

Herba

Sesetengah herba sangat baik untuk merawat lichen sclerosus, meningkatkan penyembuhan atau mencegah parut, gatal-gatal dan keradangan. Jika herba digunakan dalam krim atau minyak mereka boleh membawa hasil yang hebat - cepat. Comfrey sangat bagus dalam membaiki sel-sel yang rosak dengan 'mengait' kembali, sekali gus mempercepatkan proses penyembuhan. Calendula adalah herba lain yang berfungsi dengan baik pada keadaan kulit . Ia adalah antibakteria, antiseptik dan antikulat, dan antiseptik, menjadikannya pilihan utama untuk membersihkan jangkitan.

Kemudian terdapat semanggi merah, yang sangat anti-radang. Memandangkan ia juga mengandungi fitoestrogen, ia telah membantu wanita menopaus dengan LS. Plantain adalah herba lain yang membantu dengan menghentikan kulit anda daripada gatal-gatal.

Minyak

Minyak ialah beberapa rawatan semula jadi terbaik untuk lichen sclerosus, kerana ia boleh melembapkan dan merawat keradangan pada masa yang sama. Minyak kelapa mempunyai banyak manfaat untuk kulit; bukan sahaja ia melembapkan, tetapi ia juga mempunyai beberapa ciri antibakteria. Bagi penghidap lichen sclerosus ia sangat menenangkan dan boleh melegakan kegatalan dan pedih.

Ramai wanita mendapat banyak kelegaan daripada gejala lichen sclerosus dengan minyak zaitun. Mereka melaporkan penyembuhan ulser, kelegaan daripada rasa terbakar dan gatal-gatal dan melembutkan kulit kasar atau ketat. Mana-mana minyak yang anda cuba, adalah idea yang baik untuk menggunakannya setiap kali anda menggunakan bilik mandi, pastikan anda membersihkan kawasan itu dengan betul sebelum menggunakannya. Hanya dalam beberapa hari anda mungkin mula melihat peningkatan dalam LS anda.

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Dilator faraj boleh mengekalkan faraj terbuka . Oleh kerana penghidap lichen sclerosus boleh mengalami kulit yang menebal (atau gabungannya), bukaan faraj mungkin mengecut dan surut. Jika ini adalah masalah dan anda ingin melakukan hubungan seksual yang kerap, anda mungkin mendapati alat pembesar faraj berguna.

Mungkin idea yang baik untuk mencuba beberapa rawatan lichen sclerosus untuk mencari rawatan yang paling sesuai untuk anda dan mengelakkan gejala dalam jangka panjang. Sudah tentu mungkin untuk merawat keadaan secara semula jadi tanpa perlu risau tentang kesan sampingan negatif salap dan krim yang ditetapkan. Kami berharap anda semua yang terbaik dalam mengatasi keadaan anda!

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