Overview
Eczema is a skin condition that causes dry skin and itchy patches of skin. Its a common condition that isn’t contagious.
Its condition that causes your skin become dry, itchy and bumpy. In this situation weakens your skins barrier function, which is responsible for helping your skin retain moisture and protecting your body from outside elements.
Eczema is group of dermatitis that cause skin inflammation.
Types of Eczema
There are a few sorts of dermatitis each type has remarkable triggers that can influence your skin's obstruction capability, include:
- Atopic dermatitis
- Contact dermatitis
- Dyshidrotic eczema
- Neuro dermatitis
- Nummular eczema
- Seborrheic dermatitis
Eczema can effect every one at any age and you might be more at risk of having eczema if you have family history or diagnoses of:
- Dermatitis
- Allergies
- Hay fever
- Asthma
The first of eczema are itchiness, dry skin and rashes. These signs indicated that you become into contact with a trigger in your environment that caused your symptoms to start or flare up.
Identifying environmental triggers and avoiding them can reduce your risk of an eczema flares up including .
- Immune system: overreacts to small irritants or allergies in your environment when you contact a trigger, your immune system assumes that these small irritants are foreign invaders, like bacteria or viruses that can harm your body.
- Qualities : you're bound to have skin inflammation on the off chance that there's a past filled with dermatitis or dermatitis in your loved ones.
- Environment: there’s lot in your environment that can irritate your skin. Examples , exposure to smoke, air pollutants, harsh saops, fabric such as wool and some skin products.
- Emotional triggers: mental health can effect your skin, which causes flare up eczema symptoms like stress, anxiety, or depression
The symptoms of eczema include:
- Dry skin
- Itchy skin
- Skin rash
- Bumps on your skin
- Thick, leathery patches of skin
- Flaky, scaly or crusty skin
- Swelling
The symptoms of eczema can appear any where of your body and common places include:
- Hands
- Neck
- Elbows
- Ankles
- Knees
- Feet
- Face, especially cheeks
- In and around ears
- Lips
Less common eczema, eczema can also occur on your:
- Nipples
- Breasts
- Folds of skin near your vagina (vulva)
- Penis
There are several things can trigger eczema, the common triggers can cause eczema include.
- Dry weather (low humidity)
- Fabrics or clothing material
- Makeup or skin care products
- Smoke and pollutants
- Saop and detergents
- Stress or your mental health
- Touching something you’re allergic to
The connection between eczema and food allergies are unclear if you have food allergies you must be avoid food that it may cause or worse your eczema symptoms include.
- Peanuts
- Diary
- Eggs
Eczema isn’t contagious , you can’t spread through person to to person contact
Eczema diagnosis
A health provider will diagnose eczema physical examination, where they can take a close to look at your skin.
Symptoms of eczema can look similar to other conditions and can confirm clinical tests include:
- An allergy test
- Blood test : to check causes of rash that might be unrelated to dermatitis
- A skin biopsy to recognize one kind of dermatitis from another
Treatment of eczema
Treatment of eczema is unique to you and what causes your symptoms to flare up treatments for eczema include.
- Using gentle or sensitive skin moisturiser through a day when you have dry skin , after bath or shower
- Apply topical medications to your skin as advised by your doctor like topical steroids.
- Take oral medications like anti-inflammatory medicines, anti-histamine or corticosteroids to reduce itching and swelling
- Immunosuppressants drugs help to regulate how is your immune system functions
- Stay away from triggers that make side effects of skin inflammation discharge up.
If your child has skin conditions, such as eczema you can:
- Give your child a short warm bath instead of long, hot bath which can dry out their skin
- Use moisturiser several times a daily, in infants with eczema, moisturizing in regular basis like with each diaper change is helpful
- Keep room temperature as regular possible , temperature room changes like humidity can dry child skins
- Keep your child dressed a cotton .fabric, wool, silk, polyester can irritate their skin
- Light treatment to work on the presence of your skin and eliminate flaws
- Use sensitive skin or unscented laundry detergent
- Assist your youngster with trying not to rub or scratching at their skin. Complications of eczema
- Weeping eczema: cause fluid-filled blisters to form on your skin
- Infected eczema: occurs when bacteria, viruses and fungus breaks through your skin and causes infection
- Fever and chills
- Clear yellow fluid leaking out blisters of your skin
- Pain and swelling
There are steps can take to prevent eczema flare-ups and outbreaks including.
- Moisturise you skin regularly, when your skin becomes dry like , after bath or shower
- Take shower with warm water, not hot water
- Stay hydrated and drink at least aight glasses of water each day thas helps skin moist
- Manage your stress and emotional triggers
- Wear loose clothes makes cotton and natural materials, wash new clothes before you wear, avoid wool fabric and synthetic clothes
- Use humidifier if dry air makes your skin dry
- Avoid irritants and allergies