In the treatment of eczema, when the children are breast-fed, it is well to remember that the real cause of the eczema may be in the mother.
Eczema of the face is exceedingly chronic; it improves from time to time, but it is cured with great difficulty only.
Infants suffering with eczema of the face begin to improve about the middle of the second year and may be entirely cured about this time.
In eczema of the face, the child must either wear a mask or heavy woolen gloves, so that he will not scratch the parts.
If the eczema is accompanied with constipation and indigestion in infancy, very little can be done with the eczema until these conditions are removed.
These children, because of the extreme sensitiveness of the skin, develop aneczema from a very slight degree of external irritation, or a trifling disturbance of digestion.
For eczema of the scalp the remedy to use is white-precipitate ointment, 1 part; vaseline, 4 parts.
When the eczema on the face is of the weeping, or moist, variety, the application of bassorin paste gives splendid results.
Eczema of the face is quite common in children who are apparently healthy and fat.
If the mother is constipated, or if her diet is too liberal, if she is drinking beer, or an excess of coffee, or is not taking exercise, the eczema may be caused by one or other or all of these.
Children of rheumatic or gouty parents are more liable to be victims of eczemathan are others.
According to Stille and Maisch, the wakefulness caused by the itching of eczema may be relieved by the use of cannabis indica.
Under no circumstances use hair tonics, dandruff or eczema cures, or hair dyes.
Eczema of internal origin almost invariably appears on both sides of the body at once, as on both cheeks, or both arms, or both thighs.
An eczema of moderate extent should recover after four to six weeks' treatment, unless the soles or palms be attacked, when six or more months of treatment may be necessary.
Among the morbid agencies producing this variety of eczema are the products of indigestion.
Eczema is really a catarrhal inflammation of the skin, with the exudate (fluid that escapes) concealed beneath the surface, or appearing on the surface after irritation has occurred.
A great point in the treatment of all eczema is to avoid the use of water, and to substitute oiling with olive oil and wiping off for the usual washing of the affected area.
The treatment of eczema puzzles a physician, and only specialists in skin diseases are able easily to diagnose the subacute or chronic forms.
Eczema of external origin, including cases caused by occupation, by climate, or by seborrhea.
Many forms of eczema and a great many other skin diseases are caused by stomach disorders and an overcrowded nutrition.
In both eczema and pneumonia the essential thing is to get the body clean.
For instance, it would be necessary to give about the same treatment for eczema as for pneumonia.
Eczema is generally curable by means of proper diet and the same is true of nearly all skin diseases that afflict infants.
Unless business worries can be removed or family anxieties allayed the cure of eczema becomes a difficult matter.
Probably every skin specialist has noted in a number of his cases that a first attack of eczema came after a period of worry or excitement, or sometimes followed directly on a fright.
The well-known forms of chronic eczema erythematosum of the face in middle years or advanced life are commonly, and erroneously, regarded as erysipelatous in character.
Second, those in which a chronic eczema or dermatitis produces a circumscribed patch of infiltration {635} in a skin having a lurid reddish hue, which is also the seat of marked subjective sensations, chiefly itching.
Children with a tendency to eczema are prone to suffer an outbreak of that disease as the result of vaccination.
Although eczemais the most common of the cutaneous affections called forth or aggravated by vaccination, there are various forms of skin disease, some of them difficult to classify, that occasionally result.
Food that one patient could eat with impunity brought out a beautiful eczema or urticaria on another patient.
Eczema is a frequent symptom, and let me state right here that I find more cases of eczematous eruptions arising from a disordered condition of the digestion than any other cause.
By following this treatment as laid down, many cases of eczema will disappear.
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Useful ineczema and diseases of the integument where cell destruction is a prominent factor.
All laces, ruffles, and heavy bands which will scratch or irritate should be avoided as eczema is often caused by such mistakes.
If necessary, little splints may be placed on the inside of his arms to prevent his bending the elbows if the eczema is on the face, while the little sleeves may be pinned to the side of the dress to resist the movement of the arms.
In all these outer garments, as well as the under garments, the irritation of the skin must be constantly borne in mind, as eczema is often produced in this manner.
In the most frequent form of eczema the skin becomes red and then there appear tiny vesicles (water blisters) which soon rupture and "weep.
Another form of eczema is simply a very badly chafed condition accompanied by intense itching, and commonly known as "dry eczema.
This is worn every night and during the day, in bad cases, even when the eczema is on the face.
The report of the American Pediatric Society includes two cases of eczema as a complicating condition.
A few days later it developed marked eczema about the neck and to a less extent on the back and buttocks.
The eczema also cleared up rapidly without any local treatment.
In both scurvy and in exudative diathesis eczema and petechial hemorrhages are encountered.
In the chapter on symptomatology, attention has been directed to the fact that an eczema which yields to antiscorbutic treatment may occur in scurvy; at times it presents the symmetrical arrangement so typical of pellagra.
The hemorrhages are absorbed and the eczema heals within a few days.
We have met with eight cases of eczema in infantile scurvy, which, in almost every instance, have yielded promptly to an antiscorbutic, thus proving their scorbutic nature.
Andrews refers to the occurrence of eczema in his description of infantile beriberi.
In the more inveterate forms ofeczema more active treatment is required.
In well-fed horses, kept in close stables with little work, eczema of the limbs may last for months and years.
The term eczema is now applied very generally to eruptions of all kinds that depend on internal disorders or constitutional conditions and that tend to recurrences and inveteracy.
Eczema may appear on any part of the body, but in horses it is especially common on the heels and the lower parts of the limbs, and less frequently on the neck, shoulder, and abdomen.
In acute eczema it is advisable to protect the part against water, filth and air.
Cases of eczema caused by filth and wetness can be prevented by giving the necessary attention to keeping the skin clean and not allowing animals access to muddy, filthy places.
Eczema may involve the skin covered by the mane and tail in animals that are not properly groomed and inclined to rub or scratch.
Eruptions on the skin are in many cases the outcome of constitutional ill-health; for example, the eczema of gout.
Examples: To plaster medicated oils or ointments all over the skin of a dog suffering from constitutionaleczema is about as sensible as would be the painting white of the yellow skin in jaundice in order to cure the disordered liver.
Eczema proper is an eruption in which the formed matter dries off into scales or scabs, and dog eczema, so-called, is as often as not a species of lichen.
It is a mistake to suppose, as many persons do, that meat diet provokes eczema and other skin troubles; the contrary is the case.
The erosion under the crusts ofeczema heals over more readily and without leaving a cicatrix.
The more persistent inflammatory lesions of the skin, such as eczema and psoriasis, which are characterized by long-continued hyperaemia with hyperplasia, are now recognized as among the possible transformations of gout.
De Mussy's case of eczemawas cured after five months' daily use of a large quantity of water-cress.
Erythema chronicum occurring in this locality is frequently a sequel to chronic eczema and chronic lichen: the skin cracks, is moist, thickens, and the epidermis exfoliates.
Garrod believes that eczema is the special skin-lesion of gouty subjects, and does not regard psoriasis as having anything more than an accidental connection with gout.
Eczema of the tongue may ensue as a sequel of prolonged cutaneous eczema (De Mussy[43]).
Since his attention was first called to this relation in 1860, he has found a gradually increasing percentage ofeczema in the cases of gout that have come under his observation.
Eczema and psoriasis, pityriasis, impetigo, and porrigo decalvans are forms of skin eruption seen.
If defecation is painful, examine the inner edge of the anus for small cracks or for eczema ani.
The subjective symptoms of gouty eczema are often the source of great suffering; the burning and itching are sometimes intolerable.
The bichromate also causes painful skin affections--eruptions akin toeczema or psoriasis; also very deep and intractable ulcerations.
At the same time there is often seen an exanthem, which has received a specific name--"eczema arsenicale.
We think that Sir Erasmus Wilson mentions that terribly distressing ailment eczema among those which yield to the emollient and cleansing effects of the bath.
On this principle it is that we advise daily cold ablutions with soap of the face in cases of acne (pimples), and to other parts of the body, particularly the axilla and perinaeum in chronic eczema or chronic pruritus.
Weeping eczema is decidedly uncommon, but is the only form of skin disease offering open sores and raw surfaces likely to affect comparatively well-cared-for toy dogs.
When a moist eczema is present there may be auto-inoculation of the pock on the affected area and a general confluent vaccine eruption appear.
As the rubber prevents evaporation it acts like a wet compress, stimulating the granulations, but very often producing eczema around the ulcer.
When eczema is once inaugurated, excoriation is to be expected.
Ointments should never be used where there is a profuse discharge, as eczema is a complication which very often follows such treatment.
Varicose veins are apt to cause edema, and the watery elements in the tissues cause eczema of the skin.
