Can simple purpura in children be cured?

The reason why many parents nowadays do not like having a second child is because they worry too much. After all, children are the hope for the future of the entire family, so once a child is sick, the entire family will be affected. Among the common children's diseases nowadays, simple purpura is also very common. So can this disease be treated? Experts say that simple purpura in children can be cured, but care should also be taken to avoid recurrence.

Purpura in children is a disease name in traditional Chinese medicine. Also known as purpura, it is characterized by blood overflowing under the skin and mucous membranes, resulting in the appearance of petechiae and ecchymoses that do not fade when pressed. It is one of the common hemorrhagic diseases in children. It is often accompanied by nosebleeds, bleeding from the teeth, and even vomiting blood, blood in the stool, and blood in the urine. This disease belongs to the category of blood syndrome. The diseases and syndromes recorded in ancient Chinese medical books such as "grape plague", "muscle bleeding" and "spot poison" have similarities with this disease. This disease includes allergic purpura and thrombocytopenic purpura in Western medicine. The age of onset of Henoch-Schönlein purpura is mostly 3-14 years old, especially school-age children, more common in males than in females, and more common in spring. The age of onset of thrombocytopenic purpura is mostly 2-5 years old, with no difference in the incidence between boys and girls. The mortality rate is about 1%, and the main cause of death is intracranial hemorrhage.

Causes

Purpura is mainly a disease in the blood and can be divided into deficiency and excess. The external cause is the exogenous wind-heat evil, which brings dampness, heat and poison into the blood on the skin surface, forcing the blood to flow abnormally and overflow into the skin pores, mainly manifesting as a positive symptom. The internal cause is insufficient qi and blood in the heart and spleen, deficiency of kidney yin, ascending of virtual fire, and failure of blood to return to the meridians, with deficiency syndrome being the main symptom.

Because children's yin and yang are immature, their qi and blood are not sufficient, and their defenses against external diseases are not strong, they are affected by external pathogens of the season, and the six qi are all transformed into fire and accumulated between their skin, fur and muscles. The evil wind-heat fights against the qi and blood, the heat damages the blood vessels, forces the blood to flow abnormally, overflows from the vessels, seeps under the skin, and causes purpura. If the evil is severe, it can also damage the yin meridians, causing blood in the stool, blood in the urine, etc. If blood heat runs rampant and stagnates in the intestinal tract, it can cause severe abdominal pain. If dampness is retained in the joints, local swelling and pain will occur, and flexion and extension will be difficult.

If a child's congenital endowment is insufficient, or the disease prolongs for a long time, it will consume Qi and damage Yin, which may lead to Qi deficiency and Yin damage, and the condition may turn from real to virtual, or even a mixture of real and virtual. If Qi is deficient, it will have no power to control blood, so blood will not flow along the normal path and will overflow outside the vessels. If Yin is deficient and fire is inflamed, blood will move with the fire and seep outside the vessels, both of which can cause recurrent attacks of purpura.