Recently, fans often asked Dr. Liu in the background: What should I do if my child has eczema ? It's red and itchy, very uncomfortable.
Winter is the peak season for eczema, and there are also many patients who come to see eczema in the outpatient clinic. During the consultation process, they asked questions about eczema, mainly:
Doctor Liu, I will share with you about eczema related content.
01. Why do children get eczema?
Judging from the outpatient visits, children under 1 year old have a higher probability of eczema. The areas where eczema develops are mainly on the cheeks, elbows, and torso.
htmlChildren over 02 years old, how many eczema grows on the back of the neck, elbow or wrist. It is mainly manifested as small red rashes. If eczema is in the acute stage, blisters will grow, and liquid may leak after scratching.
The causes of eczema are not clear at present. Clinicians have always believed that it is related to individual physical constitution and skin barrier function.
If the child has allergic constitution, or his skin is too dry and lacks moisture, he will be susceptible to eczema.
02. How should children take care of eczema?
If the child has a serious eczema, the rash appears in tablets, red and swollen, and it is desquamated, you should use medicine to control it in time.
For the treatment of eczema, hormone ointments are often used in clinical practice, but there is no need to "talk about hormone color change". For children, it is completely fine to use low-grade hormone ointments.
For example, the weakest 0.1% dexamethasone ointment, 1% hydrocortisone ointment, 1% hydrocortisone ointment, 1% hydrocortisone ointment, etc., are all suitable for children with relatively delicate skin.
In addition to using medicine to treat eczema, daily care is also very important:
① Keep the skin moist
In the eyes of many parents, they believe that the reason why children have eczema is caused by too wet skin. In fact, on the contrary, the reason why children get eczema is that their skin is too dry.
Therefore, after suffering from eczema, you must keep your skin moisturized. After washing up in the morning and evening, apply moisturizing cream in time, which can greatly reduce the probability of eczema.
In addition, if the child has severe eczema, you can also use calamine lotion to relieve itching.
② Avoid irritation of eczema in the area
If there is eczema on the child’s skin, try not to irritate it as much as possible. Choose cotton clothes for clothes, and do not use hand sanitizer, shower gel and other products in toilet.
In addition, when washing your child, the water temperature should be lowered as much as possible, and it is appropriate to have 32-37℃. The bathing time should be kept within 5-10 minutes as much as possible.
After washing up, apply moisturizer quickly.
③Avoid scratching of children
If the child’s skin has a large area of eczema and itchy area, parents still need to take their children to the hospital in time to seek help from doctors to prevent the child from falling into the misunderstanding of itching-scratching-itting-itting.
In general, when a child's skin develops eczema, remember to apply moisturizer in time and in sufficient amounts; if the eczema is serious, you still need to go to the hospital in time.
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