The disease can affect life expectancy.
As a serious inflammatory skin disease, erythrodermatitis can cause damage to the skin and mucous membranes and, in severe cases, to the liver and kidneys.
In addition, because of the impaired barrier function of the skin and mucous membranes, patients with this disease can have abnormalities in water-electrolyte and protein metabolism, and their thermoregulatory functions are not as good as normal, which can easily lead to infections that can be life-threatening with improper clinical treatment or care.