What is it?

The term eczema refers to a process descamativo and itching associated with it affects the skin. Although the recent mechanisms involved in each of the different types of eczema are there in each of them a change in the white blood cells, which provides an abnormal immune reaction to foreign substances to the individual. Atopic eczema in children should be excluded desencadentes possible factors, such as infections and certain foods.

Symptoms

The skin lesions of different characteristics eczema and red plates are in different areas descamative body and itching associated with important. If in some cases there is a significant inflammatory reaction, instead of plates is limited descamative I saw the presence of vesicles containing serous in it.

Types

Basically, can be divided into two groups:

* Atopic eczema: characterized by the presence of reddish skin lesions and descamative, mainly in the flexure of the limbs, and different processes typically associated with allergic asthma, urticaria, allergic rhinitis, etc., along with dry skin.

* Contact eczema, characterized by the appearance of plaques descamative on the skin surface, or through the skin irritation of substances that are toxic to the patient-orthoallergic contact eczema or an allergy to certain substances that come into contact with skin-allergic contact eczema.

Diagnosis

The diagnosis of each form of eczema should be through the medical history. Specifically, allergic contact eczema should contact epicutaneous tests to determine the allergen responsible for plates featuring eczema patients.

Treatments

The treatment of allergic contact eczema is to avoid the substance to which the patient is allergic. In patients with atopic eczema, removing food that may be involved, and handled the intercurrent infections. Moreover, once detected and removed triggers are identified, treatments such as topical or systemic corticosteroids, antihistamines, moisturizing creams and antibióticos.En patients with allergic eczema orthoallergic also be given to patients recommendations to protect affected areas, and in particular, the housewives who are recommended to use gloves to carrying out household tasks.

Other data

About 30 percent of patients with this disease have a family history of atopy. More specifically, atopic eczema may appear first in young children, a few months old, and in these cases the skin lesions tend to have a predilection for the scalp, face and diaper area. In many cases, patients aged child with atopic eczema may be those who already had the same injury in the first months of life, or at this age for the first time the clinical picture. In most cases when they reach puberty atopic eczema disappears leaving only dry skin, and occasionally other manifestations of atopy, urticaria, allergic rhinitis, asthma ,…-.

More rarely, atopic eczema may appear in adulthood for the first time. By contrast, allergic contact eczema appears only in-allergic patients sensitized to a substance-allergen-specific, which presented the skin lesions that are increasingly exposed to the allergen. We need a pre-raising period of contact with the substance problem before developing allergic contact eczema. All patients were exposed to substances with a capacity may be a major irritant contact eczema orthoallergic. You do not need a period of awareness. Typically in this group called dermatitis of the housewife in the hands caused by the continued use of highly irritating soap.

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