November 6, 2008
Eczema: a disease of children allergic
Some infants have no chance. Because this body places red plates, which cause severe itching and are covered with a thick skin, very dry with dander or, oily. They are victims of eczema. Among toddlers, the skin allergy exists readily in the face, often at the cheekbones. After 2 years, the meeting preferably at the creases of the elbows and knees, but some children suffering from injuries to hands, arms or equipment on larger areas. They scratch you, often through blood, sweat, and their daily life is altered. Particularly as the plates tend, in these children predisposed to reappear at the slightest stress. It is not uncommon for some of these young patients tend to isolate themselves from other children and their parents adopt a protectionist behavior.
An increased probability of being asthmatic
Fortunately for these young patients and their families, eczema of the child is becoming scarce after 3-4 years. Does indeed persist into adulthood as the most severe forms of the disease. But eczema is usually observed in children with a family history of allergy. For this reason, children with eczema may therefore thereafter, once their skin lesions healed, becoming more frequently than other asthmatics, because the disease is also allergic to. In adolescence, they may also develop more often than other youth of allergic rhinitis (hay fever …).
Filed under Health Topics, Skin care by steveharder