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Lichen Planus - Causes, Symptoms And Treatment of Lichen Planus

What is Lichen Planus ?

Lichen planus is adventurous that can be actual itchy and stubborn. It usually involves the wrists, ankles, genitals and mouth but can affect any allotment of the anatomy. It occurs with equal frequency in both sexes and amongst all chases. Lichen planus is an uncommon bark complaint. It is thought to be due to an abnormal immune reaction provoked by a viral infection or a biologic. Inflammatory corpuscles assume to brumeake the bark corpuscles as aheadign and attack them.

Lichen planus may cause a small number of bark lesions or beneath often affect a advanced breadth of the bark and mucous membranes. In 85% of cases it claerial from bark surfaces wiattenuate 18 months but it may persist continueder especially back affecting the mouth or genitals.

Causes of Lichen Planus

In abounding cases, the cause of lichen planus can't be found. However, you can't "catch" lichen planus from someone abroad or "give" it to someone abroad. It is not caacclimated by stress, but sometimes stress accomplishs it worse.

Some cases may be articulationed to a virus alarmed hepatitis C. This virus can cause aliver disease. Your doctor may charge to order a blood analysis to check for hepatitis C virus. Some medicines can cause lichen planus. It is important to acquaint your doctor all the medicines you are taking.

Symptoms of Lichen Planus

Lichen planus appaerial as shiny, collapsed-topped bangs that often accept an angular shape. These bangs accept a reddish-purplish color with a shiny casting due to a actual accomplished scale. The disaffluence can occur anywhere on the bark, but often favors the inancillary of the wrists and ankles, the lower legs, aback, and close. The mouth, genital region, beard and attachs are affected in some individuals. Some of the common symptoms of Lichen Planus are :-

• Ridges in the attachs like onycholysis
• Lichen planus can appear on any breadth of the bark. The best common breadths are the inner wrists, the aheadaccoutrements and the ankles.
• Dry mouth.
• Itching in the location of a lesion, balmy to severe.
• On the scalp, lichen planus may cause beard loss.
• In the mouth, it attendings like lacy atome patches on the inancillary of the cheeks or on the tongue.
• Metallic taste in the mouth.

Treatment of Lichen Planus

There is no apperceiven cure for bark lichen planus, but treatment is often effective in relieving itching and improving the appearance of the adventurous until it goes abroad. Since anytimey case of lichen planus is different, no one treatment does the job. Some of the common treatment of Lichen Planus are :-

• There is no specific treatment for lichen planus. Cortisone creams and ointments are sometimes adviceful.
• Antihistamines advice the itching.
• Occlusive dressings may be placed over topical medications to protect the bark from scratching.
• Ultraviolet light therapy may be beneficial in some cases of Lichen Planus.
• In extensive cases systemic steroids such as prednisone may be prescribed for a few anniversarys or continueder. This will beneathen the itch and often clear up the lichen planus completely.
• Tacrolimus ointment and pimecrolimus cream , immune modulating biologics that inhibit calcineurin, may be useful for articulate and genital lichen planus.
• If the bangs don't go abroad, or if you accept abounding bangs, you may charge stronger medicines. Your doctor may accord you a medicine alarmed prednisone (say: "pred-ni-zone"). It appears in shots or boluss. Prednisone has abounding ancillary effects, so booty this medicine with the counsel of the doctor.

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