Could it be eczema?!


Question: A couple of weeks ago I broke out in a strange rash on my face, neck, arms, and stomach. I thought it was something I was allergic to so I put cream on it and a couple of days later it wasn't as bad and seemed to disappear. But lately I've noticed that it shows up again in splotches on my hands and face after I take a shower and randomly during the night. I switched my shampoo and I'm using the same soap that I've always used so it couldn't possibly be that. I read that eczema is described as being red and itchy as well. Could I have that?


Answers: A couple of weeks ago I broke out in a strange rash on my face, neck, arms, and stomach. I thought it was something I was allergic to so I put cream on it and a couple of days later it wasn't as bad and seemed to disappear. But lately I've noticed that it shows up again in splotches on my hands and face after I take a shower and randomly during the night. I switched my shampoo and I'm using the same soap that I've always used so it couldn't possibly be that. I read that eczema is described as being red and itchy as well. Could I have that?

I have ecezema and you usually just doesn't appear out of no where. But its more like an ongoing problem that appears to different seasons and irrate your skin. Even though these symptoms include dryness and recurring skin rashes which are characterized by one or more of these including: redness, skin edema, itching and dryness, crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding.

There are so many types here is a list of each kind so you can decipher if its one of these.
Types
ICD-10 codes are provided where available. The term eczema refers to a set of clinical characteristics. Classification of the underlying diseases has been haphazard and unsystematic, with many synonyms used to describe the same condition. A type of eczema may be described by location (e.g. hand eczema), by specific appearance (eczema craquele or discoid), or by possible cause (varicose eczema). Further adding to the confusion, many sources use the term eczema and the term for the most common type of eczema (atopic eczema) interchangeably.


More severe eczemaThe European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) published a position paper in 2001 which simplifies the nomenclature of allergy-related diseases including atopic and allergic contact eczemas.[1] Non-allergic eczemas are not affected by this proposal.

The classification below is clustered by incidence frequency.
Types of common eczemas
Atopic eczema (aka infantile e., flexural e., atopic dermatitis) is believed to have a hereditary component, and often runs in families whose members also have hay fever and asthma. Itchy rash is particularly noticeable on face and scalp, neck, inside of elbows, behind knees, and buttocks. Experts are urging doctors to be more vigilant in weeding out cases that are in actuality irritant contact dermatitis. It is very common in developed countries, and rising.
Contact dermatitis is of two types: allergic (resulting from a delayed reaction to some allergen, such as poison ivy or nickel), and irritant (resulting from direct reaction to a solvent, for example). Some substances act both as allergen and irritant (e.g. wet cement). Other substances cause a problem after sunlight exposure, bringing on phototoxic dermatitis. About three quarters of cases of contact eczema are of the irritant type, which is the most common occupational skin disease. Contact eczema is curable provided the offending substance can be avoided, and its traces removed from one



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