What is Eczema?
What is Eczema?
Everyone has experienced dry, itchy skin, especially in the winter. For people with eczema, that itch can be unrelenting. Listen to experts discuss eczema triggers and treatment.
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" Some problems while not life threatening can be both unpleasant and uncomfortable. That's the case with -- topic eczema and inflammatory in condition."
" You know examine -- hyper sensitivity reaction your body is more reactive. More. More. Turned on more in tune. Anything and so anything that catches your skin at exit from insider from outside and make it it'll make you scratch scratch coming up and and then. There are different sizes -- actions that can be read it can be -- scale. They typically very it's CNN com."
" Couple others have little polyps that stick out and some have -- with fluid and and those who do a lot of scratching. Their skin markings are here and you can. And much easier and people aren't you based its characteristically. In the polls of this can't. That is in the in the league behind in the east and probably although the the next is a common area also. Four excellent. I genocide and on May be tricky."
" Other conditions that we can confused with eczema acting like alert to contact him -- hiatus or an irritant and the highest -- due to a specific product psoriasis sometimes can look like -- and that can be a little bit confusing. But usually the distribution while making more clear and the history will help make it more clear and -- and -- he will be helpful."
" More than fifteen million people in the united they suffer from this condition which knows no age barrier. In fact 10% of all -- can have eczema and over half of those who get it -- kids will have all their lives. Sixty per net the patients with X amount. Had that before that you want and 90%. Manifested by the age of five."
" Usually you won't see -- for the first time and someone who's 46 years old and has never had a before. But -- that can be seen at any age group."
" What actually causes eczema is unknown but experts have an idea what factors may contribute."
" There are many causes of eczema people who have an underline hyper sensitivity. People who. Tend to be overly sensitive to different environmental stimuli and it's a product of both -- and the environment."
" What is known is that certain triggers does seem to cause flare ups."
" This includes lower humidity lower temperature certain clothing like Woolen clothing that -- content it can of the skin stressed. Can make anything worse weather eczema psoriasis act the anything we're not sure about foods -- they're not foods cause eggs and not to becoming. Mark announced a more. Warm -- problem."
" Yes and I can get worse if you are allergic to a certain preparation something in the skin cream maker you and perfume for instance. -- can make you break out."
" And able out of their eggs and -- in the summer -- we're definitely enter so you can definitely heat patterns and can range from mild to sincere."
" And can stand a lifetime. And."
" Mountain body surface areas that comfort level the amount of itching. And and even edit and action associated with that and that's a way that we have a grating the -- in the within any given individual."
" Sometimes warding hostile later can be a simple procedure. That first -- usually it's stopping and keep the intravenous drive. So we mean we're recording mowing your screens lubrication during her appointment. Traditionally. Steroid creams or appointments were used for Lara but they had side effects when used long term."
" The concern to have the topical steroids aren't that. Over time you use it without. Speaking break you can get -- of the skin you can actually have -- like breakout get broken blood vessels from McCartney about legalization and that's mark."
" But now non sterile little preparations. For a treatment that not only active. But three of long term side effects. "
" We have some very new very exciting. Medications -- prescription strength that actually are not as to what else. That helped clear eczema and maintain Clarence."
" It's often -- is a little bit. So sometimes you use in the other day to start off with anything and ignoring every day. After that there isn't always active and especially in the case of children it may even disappear as they grow older. Remission the next American last. Few weeks and last three years sometimes. And -- people quote outgrow it that's that's repeat our program on my eczema but through many -- remains a life long condition."
" Right now there is no cure for eczema as weak. Do more research and we understand it better we're hoping to find it you're working in that direction but fortunately went a lot of the treatments we have we're able to control it. And that's -- Iraq right now."
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