How to distinguish rash from eczema

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June means that summer is officially coming, and the temperature will also rise. Baby's delicate skin is prone to skin diseases such as small red rashes. Because both heat rash and eczema will have small red papules, many novice parents are easy to confuse them. Here's how to distinguish between rash and eczema.

How to distinguish rash from eczema

Symptom 1: different symptoms: prickly heat is actually a mild inflammation of sweat glands. At the beginning, the skin turns red, and then there are red papules or herpes papules of needle size, which are concentrated in pieces, some of which are purulent. After giving birth to prickly heat, there are itching, pain, and sometimes bursts of hot burning pain. Eczema is an inflammatory skin disease with superficial epidermis and dermis. At the beginning, the skin turns red with red papules the size of a needle on it. The manifestations were symmetrical, exudative, pruritus, pleomorphic and recurrent. Eczema is characterized by diversity, symmetrical distribution, severe pruritus, repeated attacks and easy to develop into chronic.

Symptom 2: different seasons: heat rash mostly occurs in summer, mostly in children, while eczema may occur all year round, often recur or aggravate in winter, with exudative tendency, chronic course of disease, easy to recur;

Symptom 3: the symptoms of heat rash are some small pimples caused by hot weather and sweating. If scientific nursing is maintained, heat rash will disappear soon, while eczema is caused by virus infection, and the affected area will often appear wet. Although there are many small pimples in both diseases, the symptoms of eczema are red and itchy.

matters needing attention

Avoid the habit of staying up late for a long time. If possible, the patients should try their best to stop smoking and drinking, avoid drinking coffee and strong tea, avoid spicy and irritating food that is easy to get angry, and avoid seafood, mutton, fish and other hair products.