Eczema can be infected by bacteria, viruses, or fungi. In this article, we look at how to reduce the risk of this potentially painful infection.
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By Mike Arsenault (bio below) Ten years ago my daughter Emily was born with eczema. Being an acupuncturist, I knew that using steroids on her tiny, infant body could be a very slippery slope, so I used my herbal training to make a simple herbal balm for her. It worked so well that I used […]
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Synbiotics reported effective for prevention and treatment of eczema
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Essential oils are more than trendy right now. From homemade body scrubs to other easy DIY solutions, there are certain healthy oils that save your skin and improve the overall health of your body when you ingest them. Kill two birds with one stone …
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Prevention And Cure For Face Eczema
Face eczema is gruesome – that is the harsh reality that you need to deal with if you have it right now or if you constantly have bouts of it. Common manifestations of eczema on face are the swelling of the eyelids and the lips. Groups of itching red bumps may also show up in the area surrounding the eyes, on the cheeks, and any part of the face. No matter where on the face these eczema rashes appear, it all comes down to the fact that they are on your face – the same face that you take with you when you go out in public to face the world.
Unless tolerance to public shame is your expertise, it is best that you stay away from the public for the meantime while you haven’t yet treated the eczema on your face. Really, are you going to risk getting hurt from the reactions that people are going to throw at you when you walk out of your home? Not everyone will be able to understand that your face eczema was just caused by something that you ate or some other allergen that came in contact with your face. And you can’t explain to all of them either that this is the case or that face eczema or any type of eczema isn’t contagious. Anyway, eczema of the face is fairly easy to treat as its symptoms will subside within minutes after applying an eczema cream, or within hours after ingesting an allergy medication. So you won’t be staying home for that long.
The best cream for face eczema is one that is mild and gentle on the skin but is still able to effectively lessen the eczema on your face within minutes after application. The skin on your face is more sensitive than the rest of your body which is why you need to take the extra precaution of using mild creams only. When you buy a brand of eczema cream for the first time, don’t apply it over all your facial rashes just yet. Apply it first on a portion of your rashes and look at it again after 30 minutes to an hour to see if there has been any improvement. If there has been an improvement, then that is the time that you can use the cream on other areas of your face. However, if you did not see any improvements within this time or the rashes somehow worsened, discard the cream and try another brand.
You can also take in medications that were prescribed by your doctor. As long as they were prescribed by a licensed physician, it is almost guaranteed that you will be relieved from the symptoms of face eczema. However, the down side of these medications is that they usually have side effects like drowsiness and sleepiness. So it will be best to take a day off when taking them. Never attempt to buy over-the-counter oral medications for eczema too. This can be very dangerous and you might accidentally overdose yourself since you don’t know the proper dosage of these medications.
Ideally, it is best that you keep away from anything that can possibly irritate your face. This includes foods you are allergic to, touching plants, and the use of cosmetics and other facial skin care products. But since you cannot completely keep away from these – especially cosmetics and skin care products – what you can do is choose products that are tagged as mild and “hypoallergenic”. These products are less likely to cause the eczema on your face to recur. Also, be more aware of where your hands go. Most of the time, our hands touch our face without us even noticing. There might be some allergens where your hands came in contact with before touching your face so if you want to keep away from face eczema, keep your hands away from your face.
Charles Perkins is a skin care expert. For more information related to eczema of the face visit http://www.GoodbyeEczema.com
Landmark study presented at AAAAI Annual Meeting paves way for food allergy prevention
Houston, TX (PRWEB) February 23, 2015
The first ever published data from the highly anticipated Learning Early About Peanut (LEAP) study offers proof that early introduction of peanuts may offer protection from the development of peanut allergies. The study was led by Professor Gideon Lack at King’s College London.
“We believe the results from this trial are so compelling, and the problem of the increasing prevalence of peanut allergy so alarming that new guidelines should be forthcoming very soon,” Hugh A. Sampson, MD, FAAAAI, noted in an accompanying editorial. Sampson is a past-president of AAAAI and current Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Lack and the LEAP study team randomly assigned 640 infants with severe eczema, egg allergy, or both, to either consume or avoid peanuts until 60 months of age. Additional clusters were identified in the cohort: children with sensitivity to peanut extract and children without sensitivity (as determined by skin prick tests).
Remarkably, the overall prevalence of peanut allergy in the peanut-avoidance group was 17.2% compared to only 3.2% in the consumption group. The prevalence of peanut allergies in children with negative skin prick tests early in life was at 13.7% in the avoidance group and 1.9% in the consumption group. Similarly, children already sensitive to peanuts reflected a 35.3% prevalence of peanut allergy in the avoidance group, compared to only 10.6% in the consumption group.
“Early consumption is effective not only in high-risk infants who show no sensitivity to peanuts early on, but it is also effective in infants who already demonstrate peanut sensitivity,” first author George Du Toit, MB, BCh, also from Kings College London explained.
While additional questions remain, researchers now wonder if the LEAP study – which has demonstrated that the early introduction of peanut dramatically decreases the risk of developing a peanut allergy by a staggering 70-80% – should prompt a change in food allergy guidelines.
“There appears to be a narrow window of opportunity to prevent peanut allergy,” says Lack. “As soon as infants develop the first signs of eczema or egg allergy in the first months of life, they should receive skin testing to peanut and then eat peanut products either at home if the test is negative or first under clinical supervision if the test if positive. Infants without such symptoms should be fed peanut products from four months of life.”
Lack added that this advice applies to children in countries where peanut allergy is a problem and cautions that infants should not be fed whole peanuts because of the risk of choking.
The “Randomized Trial of Peanut Consumption in Infants at Risk for Peanut Allergy” was published in The New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a Keynote address for the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI) Annual Meeting in Houston. Funding for the LEAP study was provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE).
More information on peanut allergies and the Annual Meeting is available at the AAAAI website.
The AAAAI represents allergists, asthma specialists, clinical immunologists, allied health professionals and others with a special interest in the research and treatment of allergic and immunologic diseases. Established in 1943, the AAAAI has more than 6,800 members in the United States, Canada and 72 other countries. The AAAAI’s Find an Allergist/Immunologist service is a trusted resource to help you find a specialist close to home.
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