What is folliculitis and what treatments do they recommend?

Madrid, Oct 13.(Infosalus) -

Each hair has an external and an internal portion, the internal is a soft hair that when it goes abroad is keratinized and becomes harder.This exit is performed through a small skin hole, called follicular ostium.Foliculitis is an infection of the hair follicle that occurs through this hole due to a proliferation of germs (staphylococci in most cases) that, although they are naturally found in the skin without causing any damage, sometimes they can sometimesbecome pathogens.

LA FOLICULITIS ES UNA INFECCIÓN DEL FOLÍCULO PILOSO

As Dr. María Teresa Gutiérrez, a member of the Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV), explains to Infosalus, most of the time the origin of follicitis is the friction of certain areas of the skin, a continuous friction that irritates the folliclesand the exit holes of the hair, and that can be produced in the neck, limbs, back or buttocks.

Folliculitis in men

In men it can appear in the beard as a result of small trauma derived from shaving.The scalp is also another of the locations of folliculitis and that, although less frequent, are usually recurrent and therefore more difficult treatment conditions.

Folulitis can also have its origin in a stubborn follicle obstruction and then it is more common in armpits or English since the contents of the sebaceous and sweaty glands also come out of the hair and sweat and here are more deep folliculitis that originate foruins.This obstruction of the hair follicle can also be produced by the use of unreasonable clothing and intense sweating or for the use of creams too units.

Another type of folliculitis is what dermatologists call false folliculitis or pseudopholiculitis and that originates when when the hair appears outside the follicular ostium and covered with keratin (becoming harder) it turns around and stuck into the skin.The organism reacts to this hair that is nailed as if it were a foreign body and small infections are caused that can leave small very uncertain scars.It is more common in women in English, thighs and legs.

Skin types and predisposition to folliculitis

¿Qué es la foliculitis y qué tratamientos recomiendan?

The risk factors for folliculitis are the continuous rubbThe bathrooms in waters that are not clean.

People with fatty skin and atopic skin have a higher risk of folliculitis, in the first case by larger sebaceous glands and who secrete more fat, which can lead to the greatest number of follicular obstructions and in the second, because the skinatopic predisposes more site of the skin by staphylococci.

Clinically follicitis manifests as small pustulous lesions surrounded by an erythematous halo (redness) that appear abruptly.

"Foliculitis is very frequent and even more in small areas due to friction or non -breathable clothing and excessive sweating but pseudopholiculitis is less common since it occurs in predisposed people," explains Gutiérrez, a professor of dermatology at the Faculty of Medicine of Medicine of MedicineThe University of Granada.

Differences between folliculitis and acne

In acne there is an inflammatory, and non -infectious process, which is launched by excessive proliferation of the bacteria 'propioBacterium acnes' in people with larger sebaceous glandinflammation, while folliculitis is an infectious process.

When it comes to acne, the so -called comedones are always observed, those black points due to cordreddish and subsequently pustules similar to those of folliculitis.The location is in face and back.

In the case of folliculitis, only pustules are observed, the appearance is abrupt and the location is in the rubbing areas, such as thighs, buttocks, in the beard, and in the case of pseudopholiculitis on thighs, legs, English, axilas or axilas the beard.

FOLICULITE TREATMENT: How to cure it

The dermatologist points out that if it is a specific area and in a person who has not had before folliculitis and has occurred due to the rubbantiseptic or topical antibiotic.

"But you have to go to the dermatologist if they are extensive or recurrent areas since it is an infection that must be treated and that of not doing so can be aggravated and sometimes cause boils, with an important accumulation of important pus that can even require its elimination fromThrough drain, "says Gutiérrez.

The treatment requires the use of antiseptic soaps such as iodized povidone and the application of topical antiseptic such as chlorhexidine or antibiotic creams that must be carefully extended so as not to increase the obstructive process.If the infection is extensive, it is necessary to add oral antibiotics.

If it is a folliculitis in the beard due to the mechanical irritation associated with the shaving.If it is a pseudopholiculitis in the beard, the electrical machinilla must be changed to the blade.

When there is a predisposition, the dermatologist advises the use of iodized soaps for the usual cleaning of these areas of the skin and using topic antiseptic hair removal or lotions with chlorhexidine.

Prevention goes through not wearing tight clothes, that this is breathable, not perform hairstyles that involve traction in the scalp and take care of the beard skin with antiseptic soaps.

In the case of frequent pseudopholiculitis, both in men and women, the doctor recommends laser hair removal as a definitive solution since the hair is eliminated by the problem disappears.