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| Eczema | Eczema is a skin condition characterized by itching and a red rash, and it is most common in early childhood. Often it leads to excoriation, skin infections and thickening. It is considered to a hereditary skin disorder. Very often children with eczema develop asthma or allergic rhinitis. Also the examples of complete spontaneous resolution occur.
This disease affects about seven per one thousand people in the United States, with 90% of the cases appearing in children between the ages of two months and five years. People sometimes use the terms eczema and dermatitis interchangeably. However, eczema is actually dermatitis that is in advanced, more serious stages, with symptoms such as blisters, scabbing, oozing, and discoloration.
There are two main forms of eczema: eczematous, which is caused by external factors; and endogenous, which occurs without a known outside cause. Even though a relationship exists between eczema and allergies, conventional allergy therapy has had little positive effect in treating eczema.
Factors to Cause Eczema
Thought he exact reasons of eczema are difficult to say we can state there is not a single factor. The first thing to blame is hereditary effect. If the parents suffer from any kind of allergies it is reasonable to explain eczema this way. The next thing is food. Some products (cow's milk, eggs, wheat, soya protein, peanuts, fish and citrus) tend to provoke allergic reactions among them eczema. The next thing to be blamed is the house dust and especially the dust mites. Many other factors such as an abnormal immune response as well as an abnormal neural response involving the autonomic nervous system are thought to play a role in eczema too.
Types of Eczema
If we look deeper we’ll see that many symptoms are explained by using one word eczema. The symptoms comprise: dryness, itching, inflammation and thickening of skin, and recurrence. Thus it would be very logical to distinguish different types of eczema depending on the symptoms we are talking.
The usual types of eczema are: Atopic dermatitis (common in kids with allergies or asthma, often gone by adulthood); Contact dermatitis (skin allergy or sensitivity to a substance); Hand dermatitis (usually caused by irritants); Dry (chapped) skin.
Treatment of Eczema
The surprising thing is that there is not cure for the eczema. Most specialists will advise you to use moisturizing substances to prevent skin from getting dry and avoiding the thing which probably cause the reaction. The major focus in treating eczema is providing patients with relief from the symptoms.
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