Steroid-Dependent Dermatitis

|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

面部红斑、丘疹或弥漫性潮红，轻度肿胀，瘙痒。心烦，咽干或口干舌燥，大便干或正常，小便微黄，舌红苔薄黄或薄白，脉浮数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Redness, papules, or diffuse flushing on the face, with mild swelling and itching.
  • Irritability, restlessness, and a tendency to become easily agitated.
  • Dry throat or dry mouth and tongue, with a constant need to moisten.
  • Stool may be dry or generally normal, with occasional changes in bowel habits.
  • Urine is slightly yellowish, deeper than usual.
  • The tongue tends to be red with a thin yellow or white coating.
  • The pulse is floating and somewhat rapid, with an accelerated rhythm.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

疏风清热，凉血止痒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help dispel wind and clear heat from the body, relieving discomfort such as feverishness, headache, sore throat, or irritability and thirst.
  • May help cool the blood and relieve itching, alleviating skin rashes, unbearable itching, or repeated scratching.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

面部红斑或紫红斑，肿胀，可见丘疹、脓疱，瘙痒、灼热或疼痛。烦躁易怒，口干口苦，大便干，小便黄，舌红苔黄或黄腻，或舌绛少苔，脉数、洪数或滑数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Red or purplish-red patches and swelling on the face, with papules or pustules, and itching, burning, or pain.
  • Irritability and a tendency to anger easily.
  • Dry mouth with a bitter taste.
  • Stools are dry and difficult to pass, urine is yellowish.
  • The tongue is red, with a yellow or yellow sticky coating, or dark red with little coating.
  • Pulse is rapid, or large and rapid, or slippery and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热解毒，凉血止痒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help dispel wind and clear heat from the body, relieving discomfort such as feverishness, headache, sore throat, or irritability and thirst.
  • May help cool the blood and relieve itching, alleviating skin rashes, unbearable itching, or repeated scratching.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

面部潮红肿胀明显、毛细血管扩张、丘疹、丘疱疹等，可有渗出、糜烂、灼痒。口干黏腻，纳谷不香，头身困重，便溏或黏腻不爽或便干结，溲赤或浑浊，舌质红苔黄腻，脉滑数或濡数

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Marked facial flushing and swelling, telangiectasia, with papules or papulovesicles, possibly with oozing or erosion and burning itching.
  • Dry mouth and a sticky sensation.
  • Poor appetite, lack of interest in eating.
  • Heaviness and lethargy in the head and body.
  • Stools may be loose and soft, or sticky and unsatisfactory, or dry and hard.
  • Urine is yellow or appears turbid.
  • Tongue is reddened with a yellow sticky coating.
  • Pulse is slippery and rapid, or soft and rapid.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

清热利湿，健脾消肿

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help clear heat and promote the elimination of dampness, relieving discomfort such as feverishness, thirst, heaviness in the body, or difficult urination.
  • May help strengthen the spleen and stomach and reduce swelling, alleviating poor appetite, abdominal bloating, loose stools, or generalized puffiness.

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|Common Symptoms

Clinical Description:

面部红斑不鲜，皮肤干燥，反复脱屑，毛细血管扩张，或色素沉着或色素减淡，瘙痒，紧绷感。心烦，头晕，失眠多梦，口干，手足心热，舌淡红苔薄少，脉细

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • Facial erythema is dull in color, the skin is dry with repeated peeling and scaling, capillaries are visibly dilated, and there may be hyperpigmentation or hypopigmentation, with itching and a sensation of tightness.
  • Irritability and emotional instability.
  • Dizziness, lightheadedness, more noticeable upon standing or moving.
  • Poor sleep, often with insomnia and dream-disturbed sleep.
  • Dry mouth with a desire to drink, but drinking water does not relieve the dryness.
  • Warmth in the palms and soles, with an internal sensation of heat and irritability.
  • Tongue is pale red, with a very thin or scanty coating.
  • Pulse is thin and forceless.

|TCM Approach

Clinical Description:

养血润燥，祛风止痒

Plain-Language Explanation:

  • May help nourish blood and moisten dryness, relieving sallow complexion, dry and rough skin, or scaling.
  • May help dispel wind and relieve itching, alleviating skin rashes, unbearable itching, or repeated scratching.

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