Eczema Signs and symptoms

Eczema
Signs and symptoms
- Itchy red plates, crusts and scales, the precise location (depending on the type of eczema in question) - Pruritus (itching) - The appearance of small vesicles - While, the skin may thicken and dry, observing the loss of pigmentation and changes pilozitatii
In infants, atopic eczema affects especially the cheeks, scalp, shoulders, torso and thumb (for children who suck their thumb). The child over two years, are affected fold of the elbow, wrist, knees and ankles. The teenager, the lesions are located in some flexion creases of the limbs, but also around the eyes and the base. Later, in adults, the lesions are situated mainly in the neck, and upper and lower limbs.

The rash develops into four successive stages:
- The first stage is acute or erythematous skin with an intense red color, slightly distorted by the appearance of small blisters that give it a grainy appearance. This stage is very itchy (intense itching train). - Vesicles gradually gathers. - Breaking the third train vesicle stage (exudative), characterized by receiving a clear liquid. - The fourth stage is characterized by the appearance of scabs, which fall after the skin stays red, the scarring and healing evolution.
After chronic, eczema is presented in various forms, which can be classified into three main categories:
- Dried forms, characterized by the presence of red tiles, imprecise definitions, forming red plaques with scaling - Forms with lichenification - areas characterized by the presence of thickened skin, violet-purple, where the apparent emphasis on the appearance of wrinkles and cadrilaj) - Eczema dishidrotica - characterized by the appearance of blisters on the front side of the fingers, sometimes causing cracks on the palms and plants (feet)