Derma Market

Derma Conditions: Conventional Therapies and Market

Humans get affected by more than thousands of derma diseases.

Their number is huge and they tend to affect people of all ages.

Mostly, different skin conditions exhibit more or less similar symptoms, so it becomes essential to own a proper and standard diagnostics method.

A variety of skin tests are performed for an accurate diagnosis of Derma disease. If it is an allergy due to a foreign substance like bacteria, fungus or virus or a type of cancer. Patch testing, Skin biopsy, Culture are some of the methods to diagnose derma disease.

Severe chronic diseases can also lead to development of dermatological conditions like Cancer.

Some of the common Dermatological conditions affecting the lives of humans worldwide are Acne vulgaris, Dermatitis, Eczema, Urticaria, Vitiligo, Dermatomyositis and many others.

Derma Disease Therapies

Chronic derma diseases are often hard to treat, but are managed by prescribing variety of drugs specific to the cause of the disease. Furthermore, the treatments available in the Derma therapy market is not ‘one size fits all’. Due to the unclarity of the 100% results, various sorts of medications are taken into consideration before prescribing to the affected patients.

Topical Derma disease treatment options

Antibacterial like mupirocin, bacitracin, and many others are non-prescription antibiotic ointments to treat skin infections.

Anthralin, Salicylic acid and Topical corticosteroids are often prescribed to treat mild-to-severe psoriasis, however, they can lead to side-effects. Topical corticosteroids are also used in the treatment of eczema.

To combat fungal derma infection topical antifungal agents such as butenafine hydrochloride, clotrimazole, miconazole nitrate, terbinafine hydrochloride, and others are used to cure athlete’s foot and jock’s itch.

Ointments, gels and lotions with ingredients contains retinoids, salicylic acids, and Benzoyl peroxide effectively slows down the rate of acne.

Derma disease treatments administered orally

Oral antibiotics such as tetracycline, androgen hormones suppressants such as Isotretinoin are given for treating acne. Isotretinoin is prescribed in the severe acne. 

Methotrexate, cyclosporine and apremilast are some of the systemic Psoriasis medications prescribed to treat the disease from its root.

Etanercept (Enbrel), infliximab (Remicade), adalimumab (Humira), ustekinumab (Stelara), golimumaband many others are some of the approved orally taken drugs for the cure of moderate-to-severe Psoriasis.

Plants are our traditional medicines

Herbal ways of treating derma diseases is gaining popularity a lot lately.

Several plants like Allium sativum (garlic), Aloe vera,  Azadirachta indica (Neem), Allium cepa (onion), Brassica oleraceae (red cabbage), Camellia sinensis (green tea) and many more have been explored for the treatment of derma diseases ranging from itching to skin cancer, as listed in one of the study by NCBI.

However, the use of plants to cure diseases is as old as hills. The treatment option is affordable and reliable, and promisingly safe enough as compared to other allopathic drugs. Many a times, herbal plants have proved to be a silver lining when all the other therapies proved to be absolutely ineffective.

Derma Disease Market

The Dermatological disease Market is anticipated to grow due to an increase in the incidence of the skin conditions. Industrialization is augmenting the incidence rate of the derma diseases along with the other environment factors, observes DelveInsight, a Healthcare consulting and market research firm.

Moreover, increasing understanding of the skin conditions and better diagnostics tools, along with the technological advancements to treat skin disease are the driving factors in Derma Disease Market.