Eczema is a reaction pattern that the skin produces in several diseases. It begins as red, raised tiny blisters containing a clear fluid atop red, elevated plaques. When the blisters break, the affected skin will weep and ooze.
In older eczema and chronic eczema, the blisters are less prominent, and the skin is thickened, elevated, and scaling. Eczema is almost always very itchy.
There are at least eleven (11) distinct types of skin conditions that produce eczema. To develop a rational treatment plan, it is important to distinguish them.
The 11 types of skin conditions that cause eczema include the following:
Atopic dermatitis:
This health condition has a genetic basis and produces a common type of eczema. Atopic dermatitis tends to begin early in life in those with a predisposition to inhalant allergies, but it probably does not have an allergic basis. Characteristically, rashes occur on the cheeks, neck, elbow and knee creases, and ankles.
Irritant dermatitis:
This occurs when the skin is repeatedly exposed to excessive washing or toxic substances.
Allergic contact dermatitis:
After repeated exposures to the same substance, an allergen, the body’s immune recognition system become activated at the site of the next exposure and produces dermatitis.
Stasis dermatitis:
It commonly occurs on the swollen lower legs of people who have poor circulation in the veins of the legs.
Fungal infections:
This can produce a pattern identical to many other types of eczema, but the fungus can be visualized by scraping under the microscope or grown in culture.
Scabies:
It’s caused by an infestation by the human itch mite and may produce a rash very similar to other forms of eczema.
Pompholyx (dyshidrotic eczema):
This is a common but poorly understood health condition that classically affects the hands and occasionally the feet by producing an itchy rash composed of tiny blisters (vesicles) on the sides of the fingers or toes and palms or soles.
Lichen simplex chronicus:
It produces thickened plaques of skin commonly found on the shins and neck.
Nummular eczema:
This is a nonspecific term for coin-shaped plaques of scaling skin most often on the lower legs of older individuals.
Xerotic (dry skin) eczema:
The skin will crack and ooze if dryness becomes excessive.
Seborrheic dermatitis:
It produces a rash on the scalp, face, ears, and occasionally the mid-chest in adults. In infants, it can produce a weepy, oozy rash behind the ears and can be quite extensive, involving the entire body.
Symptoms
Eczema characteristically causes itching and burning of the skin.
Almost all patients with eczema complain of itching. The appearance of most types of eczema is similar (elevated plaques of red, bumpy skin); however, the distribution of the eruption can be of great help in distinguishing one type from another. For example, stasis dermatitis occurs most often on the lower leg while atopic dermatitis occurs in the front of the elbow and behind the knee.
Common symptoms of eczema include:
- Intense itching.
- Red or brownish-gray patches.
- Multiple small, raised bumps that may ooze fluid when scratched.
- Crusting due to dried-up fluid.
- Pus discharge due to secondary infection.
- Thick skin.
- Dry, scaly, cracked skin.
- Worsening of eczema following scratching.
Diagnose
An accurate diagnosis requires an examination of the entire skin surface and a careful health history. A doctor needs to rule out curable conditions caused by infectious organisms. Occasionally, a sample of skin (biopsy) may be sent for examination in a laboratory.
Allopathic treatment for eczema
The allopathic treatment of acute eczema, which has significant weeping and oozing, requires repeated cycles of application of dilute solutions of vinegar or tap water often in the form of a compress followed by evaporation. This is most often conveniently performed by placing the affected body part in front of a fan after the compress. Once the acute weeping has diminished, then topical steroid (such as triamcinolone cream) applications can be an effective treatment.
Topical calcineurin inhibitor tacrolimus ointment treats moderate to severe eczema while pimecrolimus cream treats mild to moderate eczema.
The injectable biologic (monoclonal antibody) dupilumab (Dupixent) treats severe cases of eczema that haven’t responded to other treatments (for biologic medication see also Homeopathic treatment).
In extensive disease, systemic steroids may need to be utilized either orally or by an injection.
Chronic eczema can be improved by applying water followed by an emollient (moisturizing cream or lotion).
Mild eczema can be effectively treated with nonprescription 1% hydrocortisone cream.
Is there a cure for eczema?
With allopathic treatment each type of eczema requires a specific sort of therapy. The easiest eczemas to cure permanently are those caused by fungi and scabies. Allergic contact eczema can be cured if a specific allergenic substance can be identified and avoided.
However, with Homeopathic treatment, all types of eczemas could be treated and in surprisingly short time period.
Homeopathic treatment for eczema
Homeopathic medicines for any type of eczema, stimulate the disease-fighting mechanism (immune system) of the body to fight and secure organism in future for disease like this one (treated).
First of all, stop using antibacterial and/or medicated soaps as they are the main cause of lowering immune system said Dr Qaisar Ahmed, after that, advice any or some from the following:
I (Dr Qaisar Ahmed) prefer combination therapy.
Sulphur
The symptoms to look out for include intense itching and scratching which worsen with washing and heat, especially during the night. The condition is characterized by unhealthy skin with pimply eruptions which are painfully sensitive to air, wind, and water.
Kali Sulphuricum
Kali Sulphuricum is suitable medicines for eczemas where the symptoms include dry and harsh skin with extreme itching, Peeling and flaking of the skin, worsens with heat are observed.
Kali Sulphuricum is a best medicines for removal of scabs (desquamation of the skin) after skin infections.
Sepia
Sepia is best when complains of itching vesicles not relieved by scratching. The skin turns pinkish from scratching. The condition gets worse in the open air while better in a warm room.
Scabies which is present mostly at the bends of the elbows and knees.
Carbo Vegetabilis
Sensation of tingling of the skin, throughout the body, itching all over the body in the evening, and on becoming warm in bed (scabies). Burning sensation in different parts of the skin. Eruption of small pimples like miliary scabies.
Causticum
Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs. Warts large, jagged, bleeding easily, on tips of fingers and nose.
Selenium
Frequent tingling in circumscribed parts of skin, with great provocation to scratch. Miliary eruption.-Red rash on region of liver. Prolonged oozing from parts which have been scratched. Flat ulcers. Itching in folds of skin, between fingers and about joints, esp. ankle joint. Hair falls off head, whiskers, and other parts.
Antimonium Crudum
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Sensitive to cold bathing. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Kreosotum
Skin soft, unnatural feel of skin, with pegged teeth. Violent itching all over body, with burning sensation in arms and legs, after scratching. Burning itching at night, and heat over whole body.
Nettle-rash. Eruption, like bug-bites, with violent itching especially in evening; Large, greasy looking, pox like/shaped pustules over whole body. Mealy and pustular, dry or humid tetters (on backs of hands and fingers, in palms, on ears, elbows, knuckles, and malleoli), with violent itching in almost every part of body.
Phosphoricum Acidum
Insensibility of skin. Crawling tingling under skin. Formication of skin. Red and burning spots onlimbs. Eruption like scarlatina. Erysipelatous inflammations. Eruption of small pimples, and of miliary pimples collected in clusters and red. Eruption of pimples with burning pain, or pain as from excoriation.
Scabious vesicles. Eczema. Humid and dry tetters, squamous; variola. Corns with shootings and burning pain. Chilblains. Wens, Warts: large, jagged, often pedunculated, exuding moisture and bleeding readily; indented. Condylomata. Furunculi. Flat, indolent ulcers, with secretion of a dirty-looking pus, and having a serrated bottom. Itching ulcers.
Zincum Metallicum
Itching in bends of joints. Itching, with violent lancinations, especially in evening in bed, disappearing immediately on being touched. Tingling between the skin and the flesh. Chronic eruptions, Eczema of back of right hand with terrible irritation, little oozing and fissuration feels better in cold weather while excited by rubbing.
Manganum
Skin burning all over skin, in evening, and when rising from bed. Itching tetters. The skin does not heal easily; every injury tends to ulceration. Eczema. Excoriation and fissures in bend of the joints. Voluptuous itching worse by scratching.
Itching in hollow of knee and on shin (Psoriasis). Suppuration of skin around joints.
Graphites
Obstinate dryness of the skin, and absence of perspiration. Ephelides. Red spots on the skin, like flea-bites. Eczema. Erysipelatous inflammations. Vesicular erysipelas, like zona, on the abdomen and on the back.
Itching of the varices on the lower limbs. Itching-stinging on the surface of a mole. Eruptions oozing out a thick honey-like fluid. Tetters, and other humid or scabby eruptions, sometimes with secretion of corrosive serum, or with itching in the evening, and at night.
Eruption of pimples and nodules (principally under hair and on covered parts) which itch very much. Swelling and induration of the glands. Excoriation of the skin (in the bends of the limbs, groins, neck, behind the ears). Unhealthy skin, every injury tending to ulceration. Proud flesh, and fetid pus, in ulcers, with tearing pains, burning, and shooting. Scrofulous and syphilitic ulcers. Burning pain in an old cicatrix.
Mezereum
Sensitiveness to touch. General desquamation of skin of body; usual liver spots on chest and arms become dark and desquamate. Red rash, itching violently better in bed, from touch; burning and change of place after scratching. Cutaneous ulcers form over bony protuberances. Ulcers with thick, whitish, yellow scabs, under which thick, yellow pus collects.
Skin covered with elevated white scabs. Itching, esp. at night (when in bed), more violent and painful (and changed to burning) after scratching the parts, and sometimes with swelling of the part that has been scratched. Gnawing itching as from vermin. Miliary eruptions, sometimes chronic. Furunculi with gnawing pain of excoriation. Eczema.
Ulcers: with an areola, sensitive and easily bleeding when removing the linen, which sticks, painful at night, the pus tends to form an adherent scab, under which a quantity of pus collects, burning and stinging with inflammation. Vesicles around the ulcers, itching violently and burning.
Psorinum
Rash above brow and on cheek; red, on external throat, beginning with sticking. Nodules on face, neck, and legs. Pimples on forehead; on neck and mammae; with black points in centre, painful when scratched; on external throat. Eczema.
Burning like heat-rash below eyes; causing itching, smarting pain, burning after scratching, and feeling sore (in a herpetic patient); and ulcers, from which watery fluid oozed for hours after being opened-A scab on nose which commonly fell off when coughing is now adherent and hard. Eczema. Pustules on nape, with sticking. Boils on chest and loins; on buttocks, with burning itching, soon disappearing, leaving crusts. Itch-like eruption on face, hand, back, and leg, and agglutination of eyes.
Vesicles: on face; quickly filling with yellow lymph, sore to touch on forehead, face, and behind r. ear; filled with lymph, painful to touch on various parts, some forming itching papules. An old rhagade near r. styloid process suppurated, itched, and was surrounded by blisters filled with clear water, these soon changed to pustules, which healed under a crust. Crawling on all limbs, with falling asleep of them. Itching: on forehead; tip of nose; arm, biceps, elbow; soles in evening, with tickling and heat; of face, neck, and hands on touch; over whole body after rubbing papules and vesicles; between fingers, and vesicles filled with lymph; on carpus, with red spots; voluptuous, where a flea had bitten, with white, hard blisters on a red base.
Taraxacum Officinale
Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins. Stinging on skin. Eruption over body and limbs itching severely and appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria. Eczema. Biting in skin with sweat.
Antimonium Tartaricum
Itching in the skin. Itching pimples, and miliary eruption. Eruptions like scabies. Eruption of pustules, like varioloids, as large as peas, filled with pus, with red areola (like smallpox), and which afterwards form a crust, and leave a scar. Eczema. Itching round inveterate ulcers. Pustular eruption on different portions of the body, leaving a bluish-red mark.
Leontodon taraxacum
Burning sensation, and burning shootings in eyes, Inflammation of eyes with lacrimation and photophobia. Purulent pimples on face, cheeks, alae nasi, and commissures of lips, Sensation of heat and redness in face, shootings and pressure in cheeks. Eczema. Unhealthy, pimply, sycotic skins. Stinging on skin. Eruption over body and limbs itching severely and appears to be a mixture of lichen and urticaria. Biting in skin with sweat.
Hamamelis
No remedy has a wider sphere of usefulness in cases of hemorrhage and disordered blood-vessels like hamamelis. Varicose veins and ulcers, with stinging or pricking, bruised soreness, purpura. Eczemas.
Bellis Perennis
Small boil, Painful pimple, slight pimple with burning pain in skin- of a dark fiery purple color, and very sore, burning and aching pain in it. Eczema.
Crotalus Horridus
Petechiae. Vesicles; herpes; pimples; boils; carbuncles; burns; stings; pemphigus; ulcers; gangrene; felons; anthrax; eczema. Old cicatrices break out again. Peliosis rheumatica. Dropsies.
Vipera Berus
Red patches on limbs; livid; in spots; black petechial spots over whole body, which was cold to touch. Eczema. Roseola-like eruption on inside of arm and downside of body, offensive Gangrene.
Sulphuricum Acidum
Red, itching spots on skin, or small, red, livid, and bluish spots, as from ecchymosis. Eczema. Excoriation of skin, also with ulceration like gangrene (becomes easily chafed when walking or riding). Furunculi. Gnawing (eating pain in the) ulcers.
Lachesis
Ecchymosis: wounds and ulcers bleed readily and copiously (small wounds bleed a good deal; ulcers bleed readily; cicatrices bleed readily; pain in old cicatrices), wounds bleeding a great while; skin very hard to heal, masses of blood pass through the pores. Eczema – almost all types. Varicose swellings, liary eruption, pimples, vesicles, and other small ulcers, Gangrenous ulcers. Gangrenous blisters. Superficial ulcers, foul at bottom, with a red crown. Cancerous ulceration. Carbuncles, with copper-colored surroundings and many smaller boils around them.
Antimonium Crudum
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night. Chilly even in warm room. Intermittent with disgust, nausea, vomiting, eructations, coated tongue, diarrhoea. Hot sweat. Nostrils chapped and covered with crusts. Eczema of nostrils, sore, cracked and scurfy. Pimples, pustules, and boils on face. Yellow crusted eruption on cheeks and chin. Sallow and haggard.
Ledum Palustre
Bites. Stings. Boils. Bruises. Deafness. Ear inflammation. Eczema. Erythema nodosum. Facial pimples. Feet pains; tender. Gout. Hemoptysis. Hands pains. Intoxication. Joints affections, cracking. Meniere’s disease. Pediculosis. Priapism. Prickly heat. Puncture wounds. Rheumatism. Skin eruptions. Stings. Tetanus. Tinnitus. Tuberculosis. Varicella. Whitlow. Wounds.
Anthracinum
This nosode has proven a great medicine in epidemic spleen diseases and in septic inflammation, carbuncles and malignant ulcers. Boils and boil-like eruptions, acne. Eczema any type. Terrible burning. Induration of cellular tissue, abscess, bubo, and all inflammation of connective tissue in which there exists a purulent focus.
Tissues haemorrhages, black, thick, tar-like, rapidly decomposing, from any orifice. Glands swollen, cellular tissues oedematous and indurated. Septicaemia. Ulceration, sloughing and intolerable burning. Erysipelas. Black and blue blisters. Dissecting wounds. Insect stings. Bad effects from inhaling foul odors. Gangrenous parotitis. Succession of boils. Gangrene. Foul secretions.
Tarentula Cubensis
Red spots and pimples. Feels puffed all over. Carbuncles, burning, stinging pains. Purplish hue. Gangrene. Abscesses, where pain and inflammation predominate. Eczema. Scirrhous of breasts. “Senile” ulcers. A toxemic medicine, septic conditions. Diphtheria. Adapted to the most severe types of inflammation and pain, early and persistent prostration. Various forms of malignant suppuration. Purplish hue and burning, stinging pains. Bubo. Pain of death – Sever pain; soothes the last struggles. Pruritus, especially about genitals. Restless feet. Intermittent septic chills. Bubonic plague. As a curative and preventive remedy especially during the period of invasion. Stomach feels hard, sore.
Crotalus Horridus
Itching stinging all over; urticaria. Skin dry, stiff like thin parchment; usually cold. Yellow colour of whole body (haematic rather than hepatic jaundice). Petechiae. Vesicles; herpes; pimples; boils; carbuncles; burns; stings; pemphigus; ulcers; gangrene; felons; anthrax. Bilious fever. Boils. Cancers. Carbuncles. Chancre. Dyspepsia. Otitis. Ecchymosis. Eczema. Erysipelas. Face eruption. Eczema. Haemorrhagic diathesis. Psoriasis palmaris. Purpura. Pyemia. Smallpox. Stings.
Hippozinum
Consumption, cancer, syphilis, etc, and promises useful service in the treatment of ozaena, scrofulous swellings, pyemia, erysipelas. Tubercles on alae nasi. Papules and ulceration in frontal sinus and pharynx. Eczema all types. Tuberculosis. Lymphatic swellings. Articular non-fluctuating swellings. Nodules in arm. Malignant erysipelas. Pustules and abscesses. Ulcers. Rupia.
Echinacea Angustifolia
Recurring boils. Carbuncles. Irritations from insect bites and poisonous plants. Lymphatics enlarged. Old tibial ulcers. Gangrene. Remarkable medicine as a “corrector of blood dyscrasia”. Acute autoinfection. Blood poisoning, septic conditions. Eczema. Gonorrhea. Boils. Erysipelas and foul ulcers. Gangrene.
Antim Crudum
Eczema with gastric derangements. Pimples, vesicles, and pustules. Thick, hard, honey-colored scabs. Urticaria; measle-like eruption. Itching when warm in bed. Dry skin. Warts. Dry gangrene. Scaly, pustular eruption with burning and itching, worse at night.
Silica Tera
Felons, abscesses, boils, old fistulous ulcers. Delicate, pale, waxy. Cracks at end of fingers. Painless swelling of glands. Rose-colored blotches. Scars suddenly become painful. Pus offensive. Promotes expulsion of foreign bodies from tissues. Every little injury suppurates. Long lasting suppuration and fistulous tracts. Dry fingertips. Eruptions itch only in daytime and evening. Crippled nails. Eczema.
Asafetida
Itching, better by scratching; pricking, burning skin. Ulcers with high, hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding; old ulcers on forearm, wrist, hand; ulcers, especially when affecting the bones; pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous. Eczema. Ulcers, very painful to contact, esp. in the circumference, gangrenous.
Arsenicum Album
Itching, burning, swellings; oedema, eruption, papular, dry, rough, scaly; worse cold and scratching. Malignant pustules. Ulcers with offensive discharge. Anthrax. Poisoned wounds. Urticaria, with burning and restlessness. Psoriasis. Scirrhus. Icy coldness of body. Epithelioma of the skin. Eczema. Gangrenous inflammations. High temperature. Periodicity marked with adynamia. Septic fevers. Intermittent. Paroxysms incomplete, with marked exhaustion. Hay-fever. Cold sweats. Typhoid. Complete exhaustion. Delirium; worse after midnight. Great restlessness.
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