Excema ?????

Question

I have excema that flares up alot more in the summer.. my whole body just recently broke out because i used a washcloth that was washed in TIDE.. i have to use baby detergent and anything that i touch must be fragrance free because my skin is extremely sensitive .. any tips on relieving the itching and making the bumps go away ( there very very tiny, but they still are there)

Answer 1

my daughter has this problem. I did some research on the web, and her problem is under control, she uses head and shoulders shampoo as a body wash on the affected areas, and she also uses T-Gel, and Nizoral. These are all over the counter shampoos. In the beginning when the break out was at its worse, she used all three as a body wash, but now that its under control she just uses head and shoulders. Also stick with the Free laundry soap and fabric softeners. I can tell you that my daughter has had a problem with excema / psoriasis for many years. She had spots on her scalp. chest and legs, but last summer it just spread every where, it was horrible. She of course had just been dropped by our insurance because she was no longer a full time student, and seeing a dermatologist wasn't in our budget, so I got online and looked for home remedies for this skin disease. The three things it recommended were the three ingredients in the shampoos. She also applied cortisone cream with aloe on the affected areas (very sparingly) after she showered. In less than a month her skin was 90% clear. She never uses any other soap on her body or scalp, and she does all her laundry in the FREE soap and fabric softener. It has made an enormous difference for her. i hope will work for you also.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Wasing with baking soda, soaking in a bath of oatmeal, using Medicated powder, or using Medicated ointments made for rashes and such will all help to eliminate the problem.

Answer 4

There is a product I have heard about lately called Skin Zinc or something like that for psoriasis. Don't know if it's any good for eczema, but you could try a web search for that name and see what you get. Good Luck.

Answer 5

My pharmacist recommended I use a lotion they sell from behind the counter..Eucerin. I only seem to get eczema on my hands, so mine doesn't sound quite as troubling as yours, but the cream has always worked for me, it soothes the skin and seems to help it heal faster.

Answer 6

Elidel works great, but you need a prescription. It takes a week or so to work completely, but then you can use it as a preventative--and it keeps the eczema away.

Answer 7

Dermatitis severely dries out the skin,and keeping the affected area moistened can promote healing and retain natural moisture. This is the most important self-care treatment that one can use in atopic eczema.

The use of anything that may dry out the skin should be discontinued and this includes both normal soaps and bubble baths that remove the natural oils from the skin.

The moistening agents are called 'emollients'. The rule to use is: match the thicker ointments to the driest, flakiest skin. Light emollients like Aqueous Cream may dry the skin if it is very flaky and whilst it is the moisturiser traditionally prescribed by doctors in the UK, it is in fact only licensed for use as a soap substitute on washing

Emollient bath oils should be added to bath water and then suitable agents applied after patting the skin dry. Generally twice daily applications of emollients work best and whilst creams are easy to apply, they are quickly absorbed into the skin and so need frequent re-application. Ointments, with their lesser water content, stay on the skin for longer and so need fewer applications but they must be applied sparingly if to avoid a sticky mess.

Typical emollients in the U.K. are: Oilatum or Balneum bath oils, Aqueous cream for washing with, Diprobase or Doublebase pump-action creams also used for washing and may be later applied directly to the skin. The preferred moisturiser of dermatologists is a mix of liquid and white-soft paraffins. Sebexol, Epaderm ointment and Eucerin lotion or cream may be helpful with itching. Moisturizing gloves can be worn while sleeping.

Some report improvement of symptoms after treatment of the skin with porridge oats, either directly or with an extract.
Eczema and detergents

The first and primary recommendation is that people suffering from eczema shouldn't use detergents of any kind unless absolutely necessary. The current medical school of thought is that people wash too much and that eczema sufferers should use cleansers only when water is not sufficient to remove dirt from skin.

Another point of view is that detergents are so ubiquitous in modern environments and so persistent in tissues and surfaces, safe soaps are necessary to remove them in order to eliminate the eczema in a percentage of cases. Although most recommendations use the terms "detergents" and "soaps" interchangeably, and tell eczema sufferers to avoid both, detergents and soaps are not the same and are not equally problematic to eczema sufferers. Detergents increase the permeability of skin membranes in a way that soaps and water alone do not. Sodium lauryl sulfate, the most common household detergent, has been shown to amplify the allergenicity of other substances ("increase antigen penetration"). (For example, Corazza M, Virgili A, Allergic contact dermatitis from ophthalmic products: can pre-treatment with sodium lauryl sulfate increase patch test sensitivity? Contact Dermatitis. 2005 May;52(5):239-41.)

The use of detergents in recent decades has increased dramatically, while the use of soaps began to decline when detergents were invented, and leveled off to a constant around the '60s. Complicating this picture is the recent development of mild plant-based detergents for the natural products sector.

Unfortunately there is no one agreed upon best kind of cleanser for eczema sufferers. Different clinical tests, sponsored by different personal product companies, unsurprisingly tout various brands as the most skin friendly based on specific properties of various products and different underlying assumptions as to what really determines skin friendliness. The terms "hypoallergenic" and "doctor tested" are not regulated (according to Consumer Reports), and no research has been done showing that products labeled "hypoallergenic" are in fact less problematic than any others.

Dermatological recommendations in choosing a soap generally include:

* Avoid harsh detergents or drying soaps.
* Choose a soap that has an oil or fat base; a "superfatted" soap is best.
* Use an unscented soap.
* Patch test your soap choice, by using it only on a chosen area until you are sure of its results.
* Use a non-soap based cleanser.

How to use soap when one must

* Bathe in warm water — not hot.
* Use soap sparingly.
* Avoid using washcloths, sponges, or loofahs.
* Use soap only on areas where it is necessary.
* Soap up only at the very end of your bath.
* Use a fragrance free barrier type moisturizer such as vaseline or aquaphor before drying off.
* Never use any kind of lotion, soap, or fragrance unless your doctor tells you to or it's allergen free
* Never rub your skin dry, elsewise your skin's oil/moisture will be on the towel and not your body.

Itch Relief

Antihistamine medication may reduce the itch during a flare up of ezcema, and the reduced scratching in turn reduces damage & irritation to the skin (the Itch cycle).

Capsaicin applied to the skin acts as a counter irritant (see Gate control theory of nerve signal transmission). Other agents that act on nerve transmissions, like menthol, also have been found to mitigate the body's itch signals, providing some relief. Whilst research has suggested Naloxone hydrochloride and dibucaine suppress the itch cycle in atopic-dermatitis model mice

Answer 8

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Answer 9

yeah i have used a zinc oixide cream and it helps a lot on me,

Answer 10

Sounds more like an allergy