Skin Care
What Is Triggering Your Eczema?
Eczema is a skin disease characterized by inflammation, itching, redness, cracking, dryness, and sometime lesions. In mild flare ups, eczema is irritating at best and during severe flare ups, it can be both extremely itchy and painful. Complications...
What is Eczema?
Eczema actually refers to any inflammation of the skin and can take a multitude of forms. However, many people are referring to Atopic Dermatitis (AD) when they say the word eczema. Approximately 15% of the global population, 17 million of which are...
What Kind of Eczema Treatment Can You Expect?
Eczema, a term used by most people to refer to Atopic Dermatitis, is an incurable disease which affects the skin. Although sure is not a possibility, there are things you can do to control the symptoms. These things are a combination of medical atte...
The Truth About Steroidal Treatment Of Eczema
Eczema is a chronic skin disease which it a combination of inheritance and outside triggers (things which set off a reaction). The skin is inflamed, itchy, and red, it may have fever in it as well as open lesions, usually from scratching. It affects...
Eczema and Smallpox:A Scary Combination
Bio terrorism has made vaccination of various diseases, including smallpox, a plausible solution to threats. In June of 2003, key military personnel, key emergency personnel (fire fighters, law enforcement, etc) and first line health care workers be...
Is Eczema Beating Your Psychologically?
Atopic Dermatitis, which most people know as eczema, affects approximately 17 million people in America. The disease can be quite painful, inflamed, red, cracked or peeled, scaly, or have open sores. Obviously, it is usually not very pretty. For thi...
Which Of These Problems Do You Experience As An Eczema Sufferer?
Atopic Dermatitis is the skin disease that most people are referring to when they say eczema, even though the term eczema refers to any inflammation of the skin. There are many common complications with AD, but there are a few that are rare. These i...
How To Prevent Eczema Flare Ups
The best way to avoid the irritation on eczema flare ups as well as the potential of complications during flare ups is to minimize the number, duration, and severity of flare ups. There are a variety of things that dermatologists recommend eczema pa...
Are You A Victim Of Occupational Eczema?
Skin diseases that are caused by contact with chemicals related to your work are called occupational skin diseases. In order to diagnose these types of skin diseases, you will have to work closely with your dermatologist. You will need to pinpoint t...