What's Eczema?

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 This week, Living With Disabilities will talk about What's Eczema, and who is more prone to getting it.

If you have this skin condition, you are already aware of it and may even be familiar with its many manifestations. Eczema comes in nine different forms. However, Living With Disabilities only covers the most common ones.

Eczema comes in eight different varieties, and each type's symptoms might vary. include rash and skin tone.

Let's go over the eight types.

1. Atopic Dermatitis 

The most common form of eczema usually starts in childhood and gets milder or goes away towards adulthood.
Symptoms: The rash often forms in the creases of the elbow or behind the knees. The skin around the rash may turn darker, lighter, or thicker.
 Small bumps filled with fluid can leak if scratched.
 Babies can even develop it on their scalp and cheeks.
 Scratching the area can cause the rash to become infected.

Causes of Atopic Dermatitis

Genetics: someone in your family could have it. And that gene has been passed down. (Not to get confused, it's not like chickenpox.) So, a person can sit next to a person who has it.
 Dry skin.
 Immune system problems.
and environmental triggers.

2. Contact dermatitis

Because of food allergies, this is one of the most common forms. It is anything you touched or ate that caused your skin to become red and inflamed.

Symptoms: If your skin becomes reddish, itchy, or displays any other characteristics, such as stinging, Blisters that are fluid-filled itch and make you hives. Skin that feels rough or scaly will eventually dry out

Cause: When you touch or ingest anything, it occurs. such as bleach, detergent jewelry, latex, nickel, paint, poisonous plants, and skin care items like cosmetics. cigarette smoke. soap and perfume, too.

3. Dyshidrotic eczema 

creates little blisters on the hands and feet and affects women more frequently than males.

Symptoms: 

 Blisters packed with fluid appear on the palms, toes, fingers, hands, and heels Scales, cracks, and flakes might appear on your skin. blemishes, itching, and pain.

Causes: 
exposure to compounds nickel through allergies, wet hands, and feet. smoking products and stress

4. Seborrheic dermatitis
produces patches of skin that are scaly, and oily, and generates flakes that resemble dandruff. The hairline, head, upper back, nose, and groin are included in this. Cradle cap in infants is the name given to this kind of dermatitis, which does not recur. It turns into a persistent problem for both teenagers and adults.

Causes:
An inflammatory response in the skin is brought on by a combination of genetics and environment, such as stress or illness.

Triggers:
hormonal changes
illness
harsh detergents or chemicals
cold, dry weather
certain medical conditions, like Parkinson’s disease, psoriasis, HIV, and acne.
medicines.

Symptoms:

On your head, hairline, upper back, mid-chest, armpits, under breasts, or close to the groin, flakes may form in patches on top of oily skin.

flaky areas This mainly occurs on the scalp and face.

Depending on the hue of your skin, discoloration varies. Both teenagers and adults may experience recurrent of this condition.

5. Neurodermatitis
Similar to eczema, atopic dermatitis results in thick, scaly areas of skin. An inflammatory response in the skin is brought on by a combination of genetics and environment, such as stress or illness.

Causes: 

whether you've ever had psoriasis or another sort of dermatitis.

Symptoms: 

Patches that are thick and scaly on your arm, legs, scalp, soles of your feet, backs of your hands, or groin

When you're calm or sleepy, the spots might be quite irritating.

Scratching the patches might cause them to bleed and become infected.

6. Nummular eczema

Nummular eczema has a unique cause from other forms of eczema. It may also itch a lot.

Cause: 

This can be brought on by an allergic response to metals or chemicals or an insect bite. It can also result from dry skin. Nummular eczema can occur if you have other forms.

Symptoms:

 
On the skin, there is a coin form. The area could itch or start to scald.

7. Stasis dermatitis

when fluid leaks into your skin through veins that are weak.

Causes:

swelling.

Redness in lighter skin tones
brown, purple, gray, or ashen color in darker skin tones
itching
pain.

People who have issues with blood flow in their lower legs experience this. Blood can pool in your legs if the valves that should pump blood up through them and toward your heart aren't working properly. Varicose veins can develop, and the leg may swell.

Symptoms:
The lower part of your legs may swell, especially during the day when you’ve been walking.
Your legs may ache or feel heavy.
You’ll likely also have varicose veins, which are thick, ropey, damaged veins in your legs. The skin over those varicose veins will be dry and itchy. You may develop open sores on your lower legs and on the tops of your feet.

8.  Hand eczema

Symptoms: 
Red, itchy, and dry hands develop. They may develop cracks or blisters.

Cause: 
chemical exposure to the hands.

 The host, Katrina Smith, can share her experiences with you because she has lived with this skin condition and understands how it feels. She first noticed breakouts when she was fourteen years old and they started in the crease of her elbows and behind her knees. As she grew older, it began to affect other areas of her body.

Because it's often difficult to distinguish between a regular itch and a breakout itch, refraining from scratching has grown more difficult.

  Given that Katrina has relatives who also suffer from this condition as well as food allergies, it's a little unclear how she acquired it for her. She finds it quite challenging to identify the specific reason for how she developed it. She can only say that she closely monitors the meals she consumes, watches for outbreaks later, and then determines what causes them. Which she has done, and she is aware of the meal that has made her break out.  
 

What steps did Katrina take to address it? There are so many items available that are sensitive and fragrance-free. When Katrina tried some of them, some of them appeared to work briefly before she moved on to other goods. Her three weekly showers keep her skin hydrated. and continue to drink plenty of water.

What does Katrina's skin regimen look like for sensitive skin? Katrina highly suggests, like Living With Disabilities suggests, speaking with your doctor before trying any advice given here. Before Katrina shares her regimen with you, she is not sponsored by the companies she mentions here. But what she uses on her skin is an eczema honey sensitive skin solution and a soothing body wash. And then there is the eczema honey, colloidal Oatmeal| skin protection. Eczema Honey Body Lotion  full-body moisturizing. And it has been accepted by the National Eczema Association.

These are the current products she is using as of now. And it has been helping her maintain her skin condition.

 Do you have Eczema, and how do you manage it? Or do you know of someone who has recently been diagnosed with it, and does not know how to manage it?  Let Living With Disabilities hear from you.

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Reference Link

https://www.healthline.com/health/types-of-eczema#stasis-dermatitis

Podcast Link

https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/livingwithdisabilites/episodes/Whats-Eczema-e2afbog