Symptoms of eczema in infants

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Infantile eczema, also known as "fetal toxin" and "ringworm of milk", is a common skin disease in infancy. It belongs to allergic disease, also known as allergic disease. It is most common in infants aged from 1 to 3 months. The causes of infant eczema are complex: external skin irritation, dyspepsia and congenital allergic constitution may induce the disease. Let's talk about the symptoms of eczema in infants.

Symptoms of eczema in infants

Exudative eczema often occurs in obese infants. At the beginning, the skin on both cheeks turned red, and there were dense needle sized red pimples and blisters on the surface, some of them fused into pieces, and there was exudation after erosion; Serious because scratch secondary bacterial infection, pustules, fever, lymphadenopathy, etc. Such as improper treatment with irritant drugs or hot water scalding, so that the skin rash generalized, the formation of systemic erythroderma.

Dry eczema is more common in thin infants. There are light red or dark red spots of different sizes on the face, trunk and limbs, and there are dense small pimples and desquamation on the surface. If the course of disease is long, the skin at the lesions is thickened, and there may be scratches and blood scabs.

Eczema of fetal rotten type was found in infants born 1-2 days. In the forehead, cheek, brow skin redness, yellow greasy scales on the surface, there is a thick fetal scab on the top of the head.

matters needing attention

After getting eczema, the baby will cry and be restless due to itchy skin. Sometimes, it may aggravate the disease because of a cold. Parents must see a doctor as soon as possible after preliminary judgment. Because the side effects of Western medicine treatment are relatively large, it is recommended to try external application of traditional Chinese Medicine or external lotion of traditional Chinese medicine.