Eczema simply means “inflamed skin”. Skin can become inflamed for a number of reasons, but the big three reasons are: Contact, Atopic, and Irritant.
This comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatments.
3. Atopic dermatitis
• It is a disease with chronic remission and
relapse
• Severely itchy
• Presentation varies from No visible skin lesion
to Erythrodermic stage.
• Because of its character its important for
clinicians to recognize the disease in all stage
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6. Why diagnosis of eczema is relatively easy?
It has typical character or
it leaves be hind foot print.
7. Characteristic of Eczema
• Grouped papulo -vesicular lesions
• On the back ground of erythema & oedema
• Central thickening (induration)
• Borders merging into the surrounding skin
• Border has discrete papules (so it’s irregular)
• Paules are excoriated(because of severe itching)
• Oozing from the lesion