Winter season due to climate change dermatitis eczema hair more up. It makes people lose their appetite and sleepless nights! It is very uncomfortable! Especially children itchy up will scratch a night.
The actual cause of eczema is what?
The cause of eczema is very complex, there are intrinsic and extrinsic factors.
1, extrinsic factors
Living environment, climatic conditions, etc. can affect the occurrence of eczema. External stimuli such as sunlight, ultraviolet light, cold, heat, dryness, sweating, scratching, friction and various animal fur, plants, chemicals, etc., some daily necessities such as balsam and other cosmetics, soap, artificial fibers, etc. can induce eczema. Certain foods can also make the condition worse.
2, intrinsic factors
Genetic factors, chronic digestive diseases, gastrointestinal dysfunction, mental stress, insomnia, excessive fatigue, emotional changes and other mental changes, infectious lesions, metabolic disorders and endocrine disorders, etc., can produce or aggravate eczema. Children are also associated with an immature autoimmune system;
The types of eczema are generally divided into: acute eczema, subacute eczema, and chronic eczema.
1. Acute eczema has an acute onset, erythema, papules, blisters, pustules, vesicles, crusts, etc. can appear in a sequential manner, but often 2-3 kinds of rashes coexist or at some stage a certain type of rash predominates. Often scratching frequently due to intense itching makes the condition worse.
2. Subacute eczema is dominated by papules, scales and crusts, but may erode after scratching.
3, chronic eczema affected skin infiltration thickening, become dark red and pigmentation.
The right external treatment for eczema
Many people think that eczema is always bad because the skin or the surrounding environment is too “wet” caused, but the truth is not so, eczema recurrence can not be cured, because too dry! So the first thing you need to do to treat eczema is to apply a lot of moisturizer to the affected area to keep the skin moist. Isn’t it a bit subversive?
1. How much cream should I rub?
If the situation is not serious, parents are advised to take care of their children from the following points: but from the “application of emollient cream” alone, many parents are not doing the right thing, almost all of them do not give their children enough to rub! How much is enough? The size of a coin? Not enough! More than the usual layer of coating? Not enough! Then how much? A lot of rubbing!!! Use 250g of moisturizer a week, that’s right, half a pound!!! For example, a regular bottle of moisturizer for 40g, that is, almost a day to use up a bottle, a week to almost six bottles to achieve the effect of moisturizing!!!! Why? The chief physician of the Department of Dermatology of the Children’s Hospital affiliated with the Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Dr. Liu Xiaoyan, believes that 60% of the eczema can be dealt with by moisturizing the skin and 40% of the drugs are needed. Many eczema can be cured with emolliency alone, without the need for medication. Because the skin is the body’s barrier, dry air will make cracks in the skin, when allergens will take advantage of the situation and trigger an allergic reaction to the skin, such as eczema. So the easiest way is to plug the cracks and use emollient cream in large quantities. For children in the treatment period, doctors recommend 250 grams a week, half a pound! As soon as the skin is free of cracks and the barrier function is restored, the allergic reaction will be reduced. And the amount of emollient cream for children is not enough to achieve the effect of moisturizing, and it will naturally have no effect on eczema relief. Therefore, parents who have eczema and do not even give their children moisturizer should pay special attention to this, which will only make the situation more and more serious. In addition, the following are also factors that may aggravate eczema.
2, hormones dare not use?
If the child is moderate to severe eczema, some also have a point broken skin and other situations, parents and how to deal with it? The hospital, the doctor may recommend the use of hormone cream. But many parents’ first reaction is: hormones! The side effects are huge, definitely not! Many mothers choose to let their children carry on, but also unwilling to choose hormone creams to alleviate the pain, but also may lead to the original easy to control a small area of eczema is dragged into a large area of difficult to treat eczema.
Doctors are also very angry and vomit blood – hormones are not as scary as you think! Parents are always worried that using hormonal creams will affect their children’s growth. But the truth is: Generally, long-term high doses of oral hormones will inhibit the growth of young children, while the adverse effects of long-term use of topical hormones are only limited to the skin, including skin thinning or hyperpigmentation. However, even if you don’t use hormone creams, the skin of eczema will cause changes in skin pigmentation during the recovery period, not necessarily pigmentation caused by hormones, and the pigmentation will slowly fade away over time.
Therefore, for children with moderate to severe eczema, it is important to use weak topical hormones along with good moisturization. If there is a rupture and bacterial infection in the eczema, it is also necessary to use a combination of anti-infection creams, such as Bactrim, and oral antihistamines, such as loratadine, to relieve itching.
When using hormonal creams for children, the following 5 points must be noted: 1. Use low strength creams when possible, unless you are controlling an acute attack of moderate to severe eczema (when you can use stronger hormones); 2.
Hormonal creams are generally used once or twice a day; 3. When applied all over the body, the area used should not exceed 1/3 of the body surface area as much as possible; 4.
The duration of use should be 5-7 days, and the same area should not be used continuously for more than 2 weeks. 5. If more than two kinds of ointments are used at the same time, the time between the application of each ointment should be more than half an hour apart.
About eczema, there are also these questions that you may also be concerned about.
A. Can eczema be cured?
There is no medication that can cure eczema, but usually there will be relief over the age of two, and 50% of babies over the age of five will heal themselves.
Will eating “hairy foods” cause eczema?
Eczema is a skin allergy, not a food allergy, so eat more liver, carrots, egg yolks, and supplement vitamins A and B, rather than just quit eggs, seafood and other so-called “hairy things”.
Can eczema babies be vaccinated?
If the eczema is not serious, you can get vaccinated normally. Only the acute infection period of severe and persistent eczema requires delayed vaccination.