What are the symptoms of eczema in children

Because children's bodies are still in a developmental state, their immune systems are not yet fully developed. Parents should pay more attention to their children's health problems. Childhood eczema is a common skin disease in life. The main symptom is that some small red particles will grow on the child's skin. For common diseases, the most important thing is that parents know how to deal with them.

For children, the symptoms of pediatric eczema are painful because it can cause itching on the skin, so children will scratch with their hands, which may cause the affected area to be scratched and infected again.

1. The natural course of infantile eczema

Eczema is a common skin disease in infancy. Babies may develop eczema when they are 2 to 3 months old, gradually improve after 1 year old, and most of them can heal themselves after 2 years old, but a few may extend to infancy or childhood. Children with infant eczema are prone to develop other allergic diseases in the future, such as asthma, allergic rhinitis, allergic conjunctivitis, etc.

2. Baby eczema rash

Most rashes occur on the cheeks, forehead, between the eyebrows and head. In severe cases, rashes may also appear on the chest, back and limbs. The initial rash is erythema, and later it becomes a rash with small dot-like protrusions or a blister-like rash (medically called papules or herpes), which is very itchy. The herpes can break and ooze fluid, which forms a scab when the fluid dries. Eczema is often distributed symmetrically.

3. Types of baby eczema

(1) Dry type eczema manifests as red papules, which may cause skin redness and swelling, and the papules may have bran-like desquamation and dry crusts, which are very itchy.

(2) Seborrheic eczema is characterized by redness of the skin and small maculopapular rashes that ooze out a yellowish sebaceous fluid that covers the rash and later forms thick yellow scabs that are difficult to remove. It is more common on the top of the head, between the eyebrows, beside the nose, and behind the ears, but the itching sensation is not very obvious.

(3) The exudative type is more common in obese infants. There are blisters and erythema between the red rashes. The skin tissue may swell and be very itchy. After scratching, yellow serous fluid may ooze out or bleed. The rash can spread to the trunk, limbs and the whole body, and is prone to secondary skin infection.

The above is an introduction to the symptoms of childhood eczema. I believe that after reading it, you will have a clearer understanding of the symptoms of childhood eczema. As parents, we should pay more attention to our children's physical condition. Because children are still young, they don't know whether they are sick or not, so parents need to pay more attention to them. It is also good to learn more knowledge in this area.