Atopic Eczema

Learn How Your Children Can Get Atopic Eczema From You!

Atopic eczema is a chronic skin inflammation caused by certain allergen, usually appears on people with atopy. Learn why 15% of children got eczema during their childhood, while 50% of them also got asthma.

About Atopy and Allergy

We know that allergy is a hereditary disease, even though why some people have allergy while the others don’t, we don’t quite understand. Allergy that is inherited is called atopy.

Atopic people produce IgE (allergy antibody) in high level whenever they meet with allergen substances from their environment. Even though the atopic allergy is hereditary, environment has an important role in allergy development in a person. This condition cause only few or even one child of a siblings that get allergy.

These are factors that affect your chance of getting allergy :

• Quantity of allergic gen you got from your parents

• High exposure to allergen during the pregnancy of your mother

• First time you were exposed to allergen

• Infection caused by virus during your childhood

• High exposure of cigarette smoke or hay fever during your mother’s pregnancy and during your childhood, etc.

To sum up, if you were born during hay fever season from atopic parents who are smokers, live in a house with cats and bad ventilation, and eat foods with high allergen level, then you certainly have a big chance to get atopic allergy!

How Atopic Eczema Developed

A child usually inherit the hypersensitivity of allergens from his parents. That’s how he gets the atopic eczema. However, daily factors can increase the development of the atopic eczema, such as early exposure to some allergen : milk, egg, dust mites, or pet’s dander. At least 80% of atopic eczema patients have a positive result from allergy testing against one or more allergens.

Atopic eczema starts attacking when a child gets 5 years age. In some kids, the atopic eczema keep getting better when they grow up, but 25% of them will suffer atopic eczema until they were adults.

Atopic Eczema Symptoms

When you are exposed to certain allergen, these symptoms will appear on your skin,

• Redness and itchy

• Blisters (can become worse if scratched)

• Thicken and scally

• Color change on the area of atopic eczema (because of pigment change)

• Chronic infection

Atopic eczema can attack different area of skin depends on patient’s age.

In babies & toddlers : on face, outer arms, knees

In bigger kids & adults : on neck, ankles, behind knees and inside the elbows

Once atopic eczema developed, the symptoms will get worse when induced by some allergen, which includes :

Sometimes, small things like replacing your bed with a set of new one, or having a new pet at home can worsen your eczema. You should also pay attention on the upcoming pollen season, and when buying daily products like food, soap, detergent, etc, as manufacturers often change their product formula. You might use the product for years without problem, but someday your eczema can get worsen because of the same product.

To reduce the itchy, you could apply cortisone on the eczema area. However be careful of the cortisone side effect. Consult to your doctor to prescribe a most suitable cortisone for your problem, and how to use it.

Dry skin can increase the itchy. Therefore, avoid bathing with hot water, and choose a moisturized soap. Always apply moisturizer cream to your skin after bath. Another way to reduce itchy is by taking antihistamine.

Learn more about too dry skin from Marcella's site. She will tell you about what causes dry skin problems, and how to improve it.

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