The common sense to prevent eczema Eczema, especially chronic, mostly through years and years of repeated treatment has not been cured, patients often lose confidence. However, it is important to know that eczema is not an “incurable disease”. It’s just that the causes of this disease are extremely complex, making it difficult to treat. Therefore, prevention is extremely important. To prevent this disease, you should avoid all kinds of suspected acquired pathogenic factors, such as hot water, excessive use of soap, scratching and improper topical medication. In life, it is important to avoid mental stress, overwork, food such as chili, fish, shrimp, crab or strong tea, coffee, alcohol, clothing should not use silk, wool and chemical fiber products, usually keep bowel movements smooth, sleep well, and pay attention to skin cleaning and moisturizing in winter. Another study shows that celery, bitter melon, tomatoes, leeks, these four vegetables have the effect of preventing eczema. What is the relationship between eczema and dampness? The clinical manifestations of eczema have blisters, exudation and other wet features; the lesions are heavy and sticky during the course of the disease, lingering and difficult to heal. Therefore, Chinese medicine believes that eczema is closely related to dampness. However, the “dampness” mentioned here does not refer to the humidity of the environment. Chinese medicine believes that the cause of eczema is the combination of internal and external wet two evil for the problem, internal wet because of dietary disorders, alcohol or over-eating fishy and windy products, injury to the spleen and stomach, spleen loss of health, resulting in dampness and heat; external wet is external wind and damp heat evil, internal and external two evil fight, filled in the coup, immersion in the skin caused by the development of acute eczema. Or a weak body, the spleen and stomach wet trapped, skin loss of nourishment, or damp heat contained for a long time, the depletion of Yin and blood, dryness and wind, resulting in blood deficiency and wind dryness, skin A wrong and prolonged, becoming subacute or chronic eczema.