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The most common allergic skin diseases are urticaria, contact allergic and eczematoid dermatitis. Inflammatory and autoimmune skin diseases include psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis, alopecia areata, and bullous skin diseases, lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis and scleroderma.
Contact dermatitis is an inflammation of the skin that occurs in contact with various irritants such as nickel, cobalt, latex, detergents. Redness, swelling, blisters, scaling and itching occur at the point of contact.
Contact dermatitis can be treated with corticosteroid creams, and epicutaneous testing is important in detecting the causative agent. a u otkrivanju uzročnog agensa važno je učiniti epikutano testiranje.
After discovering the cause, that causative agent should be avoided in everyday life and work.
Other dermatitis caused by allergic mechanisms include nummular dermatitis, various forms of pruritus, and atopic dermatitis. Although atopic dermatitis is more common in children and usually disappears by the 4th or 5th year of life, less often, skin changes can also occur in adulthood.
Along with the marked dryness of the entire skin, redness, scaling and excoriations caused by scratching can be seen in the folds.
Milder forms of atopic dermatitis are are treated with local corticosteroid preparations and immunomodulators tacrolimus and pimecrolimus, while in severe forms it is necessary to introduce systemic immunosuppressive therapy, such as ciclosporin, methotrexate and new biological therapy with JAK inhibitors.
Inflammatory skin diseases include psoriasiswhich varies in severity from mild forms with several pink, scaly plaques on the elbows, knees and back to severe forms where the scaly plaques affect a large part of the skin and scalp, and changes occur in the nails and joints.
Psoriasis is a disease that today, thanks to modern immunosuppressive therapy and biological drugs, we can treat very well.
Among other inflammatory skin diseases, lichen planus is common, with smaller dull red changes that appear on the wrists and spread over the forearms, trunk and lower legs, and is treated with local and systemic corticosteroids, retinoids and phototherapy.
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