ECZEMA OR ATOPIC DERMATITIS
Atopic dermatitis or eczema is a condition that makes your skin red and itchy. It's common in children but can occur at any age. It may be accompanied by asthma .
SYMPTOMS:
Eczema signs and symptoms vary widely from person to person and include:
• Dry skin
• Itching, which may be severe, especially at night
• Red to brownish-gray patches, on the hands, feet, ankles, wrists, neck, upper chest, eyelids, inside the bend of the elbows and knees, and in infants, the face and scalp.
• Small, raised bumps, which may ooze fluid on itching.
• Thickened, cracked, scaly skin.
SOME HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE FOR ECZEMA
GRAPHITES:
It works well in case of both dry eczema and moist eczema.There is excessively rough, dry skin attended with intense irritation. In moist eczema, the skin eruptions will ooze moist, sticky fluid .
NATRUM MURIATICUM :
The eczema eruptions in the bends of limbs are dry, chapped, raw, inflamed and crusty in nature .
SULPHUR :
Sulphur is a prominent medicine for eczema with excessive itching and burning. . The skin looks very dirty and unhealthy.
PSORINUM:
Psorinum is helpful for dry, itchy eczema where a person scratches until it bleeds.
ARSENIC ALBUM :
Eczema is accompanied by asthma. The symptoms include dry, rough itchy skin. Along with eczema, asthmatic symptoms with marked dyspnoea, suffocative attacks, cough, constriction in air passages are present.
MEZEREUM :
Mezereum is the most suited for eczema with thick, crusty eruptions.
PETROLEUM :
The skin is very rough, hard and thick. Deep cracks appear on the affected skin. The cracks may bleed in some cases.
PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Moisturize your skin at least twice a day.
Try to identify and avoid triggers that worsen the condition.
Take shorter baths or showers, use warm, rather than hot, water.
Use only gentle soaps.
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