Children have eczema, this is how to cure it quickly

Infant eczema is a relatively common skin disease. Generally, it is caused by the stimulation of external air dust, or contact with allergic clothing. Infants with eczema are prone to redness, swelling, roughness, and uneven scalp when touched with the hands. There are many ways to treat infant eczema. In daily life, you must pay attention to skin cleanliness, avoid exposing the baby's skin to strong sunlight or wind, and do not contact irritating objects. You can wipe the skin with warm boiled water. Warm boiled water has the effect of sterilization and anti-inflammatory, which can effectively improve and relieve the symptoms of infant eczema, and can also effectively improve the itching of eczema.

Neonatal eczema

Neonatal eczema is an allergic skin disease, which is commonly known as an allergic skin disease. The main cause is intolerance or allergy to ingested, inhaled or contacted substances. Children with eczema initially develop red skin and rashes, followed by roughness and flaking of the skin. Touching the child's skin feels like touching sandpaper. Heat and humidity can make eczema more obvious.

Nursing

1. Keep the skin clean and dry. When bathing your baby, use warm water and non-alkaline bath agent to clean the baby's body. For babies with intertrigo, special attention should be paid to cleaning the folds of the skin. When taking a bath, the shower gel must be rinsed off. After washing, wipe the moisture off the baby's body and apply a non-oily moisturizer to avoid hindering the normal breathing of the skin. The baby's hair should also be washed every day. If the baby has seborrheic dermatitis, washing the head carefully can remove the scabs. If the scab has hardened and stuck to the head, apply olive oil on the affected area and then wash it after a while.

2. Avoid external stimulation. Parents should always pay attention to changes in temperature and humidity around the baby. Babies with contact dermatitis should especially avoid exposing their skin to cold wind or strong sunlight. In summer, after your baby sweats during exercise, you should wipe off his sweat carefully; when the weather is cold and dry, you should apply anti-allergic non-oily moisturizer to your baby. In addition to paying attention to weather changes, parents should not let their babies wear clothes that are easy to irritate the skin, such as wool, silk, nylon, etc.

3. Trim the nails short. If your baby suffers from severely itchy atopic dermatitis or contact dermatitis, parents should trim their baby's nails regularly to reduce the chance of scratching.

Clinical symptoms and manifestations

The characteristics of the rash can be divided into two types: exudative type and dry type.

Exudative eczema often occurs in obese infants with exudative constitution. It initially occurs on the cheeks, with erythema and unclear borders, and densely distributed needle-tip papules, papulovesicles, blisters and exudate on the erythema. When the exudate dries, it forms yellow scabs of varying thickness. Severe itching, scratching, and friction often cause some of the scabs to peel off, revealing bright red eroded surfaces with large amounts of exudate. In severe cases, the entire face and scalp may be affected. If there is secondary infection, pustules may be seen, accompanied by local lymph node enlargement, and even systemic symptoms such as fever. In a small number of children, due to improper treatment, the disease spreads to the whole body and turns into erythroderma, which is often accompanied by diarrhea, malnutrition, swollen lymph nodes, etc.

The dry type of rash is common in thin babies. It is characterized by light red to dark red patches, dense small papules without blisters, dry skin with no obvious exudation, and grayish white bran-like scales on the surface. The face, trunk, and limbs are often affected. In chronic cases, there may also be mild infiltration, hypertrophy, cracking, scratches or bloody scabs.

In addition to the above two types, some people also divide it into a seborrheic type, which is characterized by skin lesions occurring in areas with developed sebaceous glands such as the scalp and behind the ears, which may produce thick yellow scabs, but its basic characteristics are similar to the exudative type.

Neonatal eczema usually develops 1 to 3 months after birth, gradually improves after 6 months, and most children gradually recover on their own after 1-2 years old. Some children develop the disease during infancy or childhood. The severity of the disease varies. The rash is common on the head and face, such as the forehead, cheeks, and top of the head, and then gradually spreads to the chin, neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, limbs, and can even spread throughout the body.

At the beginning, there are scattered or clustered small red papules or erythema, which gradually increase in number, and small blisters, yellow-white scales and crusts can be seen. There may be exudation, erosion and secondary infection. The children are irritable, cry at night, have difficulty sleeping, and often itch all over. Since the lesions of eczema are on the epidermis, no scars are left after healing.

TCM analysis and treatment

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that wind evil, dampness evil, heat evil, blood deficiency, and insect infestation are the main causes of disease. The principles are to dispel wind and dampness, clear away heat and detoxify, nourish blood and moisten dryness, and promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis in order to achieve the effect of expelling evil, strengthening the body, relieving itching and curing.

Traditional Chinese medicine calls it "dampness and poison sores" or "dampness sores". The so-called "poison" refers to some heat toxins that cause the body to reject and react sensitively. These heat toxins may be caused by food, medicine or daily necessities (such as paint, chemical glue, mothballs, etc.). As for "dampness", it means that the body functions are blocked by dampness and become sluggish. Since the human body is 70% water, if the water flow is stagnant, the body will be in a "wet" state. The symptoms are heavy limbs, edema, indigestion, and loose stools.

prevention

Infant eczema must be treated when it is obvious. Treatment of infant eczema does not end after the rash disappears. The more important task is home care to prevent the recurrence of baby eczema.

1. Try to find the cause of the disease and eliminate it, but it is often difficult.

2. Feeding and diet:

(1) Breastfeeding can reduce the severity of eczema. Protein-based complementary foods should be added later, such as eggs, fish, and shrimp. Generally, babies start adding them gradually from 4 months old. For babies with eczema, it is recommended to add them 1 to 2 months later, and the speed of addition should be slower. The baby’s diet should be as fresh as possible, and avoid letting the baby eat processed foods that contain gas, pigments, preservatives or stabilizers, or leavening agents.

(2) If you have found that certain foods cause eczema, you should try to avoid eating these foods again.

(3) Babies who are allergic to milk can be fed with soy milk, goat milk, etc. instead of milk.