How Do I Get Rid of Dark Patches Caused by Eczema and the Use of Cortisone?

The condition you are describing sounds like post inflammatory hyperpigmentation. We will call it PIH for brevity. This article talks about how you can get rid of PIH, the dark patches that are caused by eczema.

The first thing is you should not be using corticosteroids on areas of the body that is affected by PIH. The only time you should ignore that last bit of advice is when a doctor instructs you otherwise. You do not want to use corticosteroids on these places because it will contribute to side effects and permanent skin damage in these places. The steroids will cause skin thinning. In the areas where you have PIH, you will need healthy skin that can be exfoliated without causing other damages to occur.

Hydroquinone is also a treatment that you can evaluate and decide if you want to use. The reason why I say you can evaluate it is because there are ongoing differences about the safety of this once vastly popular medicine for clearing up hyperpigmentation problems.

What hydroquinone will do is reduce the amount of melanin or skin dye that your skin produces in the areas that are affected. The use of the drug has been banned in Europe, Japan and Australia. They say that it causes cancer and adrenal gland malfunctions. It has also been implicated in the poisoning of unborn babies in women that are pregnant.

A newer treatment for the removal of hyperpigmented areas of skin is to use a combination of mequinol and tretinoin. This treatment is becomi

g popular because it works well. Some people consider that this new combination works just as well as any hydroquinone combination.

Microdermabrasion is another route that you can go to get rid of hyperpigmentation and PIH. This form of treatment finds much use when a person is not in favor of using the PIH drugs, usually because of certain sensitivities in the skin. If you are brown skinned, you will want to make sure that the person doing your treatment is not a novice. The darker your skin tone is will determine how prone you are to the side effects that may be associated with microdermabrasion treatments.

If you choose to go the microdermabrasion route, you should expect that you will need about 6 - 8 treatments with about 2 -4 weeks hiatus in between treatments.

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Broyde McDonald is an experienced writer on the subject of Eczema Treatments.