Showing posts with label eczema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eczema. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Two Pajamas Treatment for Eczema

Wet Wrapping Technique to Control Dermatitis.

When the eczema involves extensive skin surface, the two pajamas treatment for eczema can be very effective in controlling the dermatitis and providing fast relief.

Sometimes topical applications of steroids fail to control the itching and skin inflammation in eczema patients. These may be due to various causes including poor penetration, accidental wiping off of the medication by clothes, or because the strength of the corticosteroid is not enough to suppress the disease activity. In such cases, the two pajamas technique can be very helpful in bringing out fast relief for the patient.

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Friday, February 13, 2009

How to Treat Eczema


General Approach to the Management of Different Types of Dermatitis

General approach on how to treat eczema depends upon certain general and specific measures of management of different types of dermatitis.

Eczema encompasses a wide range of skin inflammatory diseases. The specific treatment of eczema differs according to the type, causes and individual variations.

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Thursday, February 12, 2009

What is Eczema?

Dermatitis is the Inflammation of Skin

Eczema is an exudative inflammation of the skin sensitized due to various external and internal allergens. Eczema and dermatitis are used synonymously most of the time.

Eczema means boil out (Greek: ec=out; zema=boil). In eczema, the skin seems to be boiling out. Eczema has been in use since the sixth century. As it has been imprinted in the minds of lay public, all efforts by the dermatologists to replace it with dermatitis have consistently failed during the last century.

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