What causes purpura in children?

Purpura is mostly a skin problem that occurs in adults, but some children may also have some symptoms. What causes purpura in children? Children suffering from purpura are often geoallergic, and the condition occurs when the seasons change. Since children have relatively low resistance, they must be treated promptly once they have allergic purpura. Some parents also choose Chinese medicine for treatment. It is also possible that purpura is caused by childhood allergy and spleen deficiency.

1. Why do children suffer from allergic purpura?

Simply put, it is caused by the body's allergy to certain factors. For example, the most common one is allergy caused by eating certain things, such as seafood, milk, etc.; purpura often occurs after a cold, which is more common in winter and spring, and this may be related to infection; some purpura is caused by certain drugs; purpura caused by pollen is also common, which is more common in spring. Related to some kind of pollen in the spring flowers. But most of the time it is unclear clinically what factors a person is allergic to.

2. Why are children particularly prone to purpura?

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, this is related to the physiological characteristics of children's spleen deficiency. This means that children's gastrointestinal digestion and absorption function is poor. Eating a little more or eating an extra bite of meat will cause indigestion and food accumulation. Incompletely digested food can cause allergic purpura.

In addition, traditional Chinese medicine believes that children's skin has poor defense function and they are easily susceptible to colds. The viruses and bacteria among them may be allergens that cause purpura, or they may be some toxins produced by the viruses and bacteria. Therefore, there is often a history of cold 10-20 days before the onset of allergic purpura.

3. What to do if your child has purpura

The treatment plan for this disease usually starts with conventional and effective treatment methods, first removing the inducing factors, controlling the infection, using hemostatic drugs and antihistamines, or intravenous calcium desensitization, using vitamin C to change vascular fragility, using corticosteroids to improve pain, joint symptoms and kidney damage, and using immunosuppressants for critically ill patients. Nursing work has been comprehensively strengthened compared with the past. Except for kidney involvement, the disease responds well to treatment such as hormones. The course of the disease is usually about 1 month, occasionally prolonged, but the recurrence rate is high, with about 30% of patients tending to relapse.

Therefore, if we want to cure the disease and prevent it from recurring, the treatment approach should start with adjusting the patient's immune function, stimulating the body's immune function to reach an optimal state, allowing serum antibodies and serum complement to reach a normal and stable state, and no longer be irritable to allergens, so that the patient can recover as soon as possible and achieve the effect of clinical cure.