What are the causes and symptoms of eczema in the elderly?

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Eczema is a common skin disease in our daily life. Newborn babies are very easy to get eczema, but the elderly also get eczema. After the elderly get eczema, there will be different degrees of eczema plaque on the skin. According to the different lesions of eczema in the elderly, eczema in the elderly can be divided into several different situations, such as accumulated dermatitis, crackle eczema, hand eczema and so on. Here are several common Eczema in the elderly, I will briefly introduce to you.

What are the causes and symptoms of eczema in the elderly?

The most common Eczema in the elderly is cholestatic dermatitis: this kind of eczema often occurs symmetrically, mainly in the front or side of the leg. The main symptoms are brown red or purple patches on the front or side of the leg. There is scab, erosion or exudate on the patch.

Another kind of eczema that the elderly are easy to get is hand eczema: hand eczema is also a kind of eczema that the elderly are easy to get, especially women have more hand eczema, which is caused by female friends' contact with various washing products in their daily life, and patients will have plaques on the back of hands and fingers.

Eczema easy to get in the elderly is also crackle eczema: once people enter the old age, their sebum secretion will be reduced at ordinary times, and the absorption of some nutrients will not be improved, which will cause crackle eczema, with some small epidermal cracks, especially in feet and hands.

matters needing attention

Eczema is a relatively easy disease for elderly friends. According to the different pathological changes, senile eczema can be divided into many kinds. The common ones are the above situations. These different eczema, different degrees of poor good old friends. Hope that the elderly friends in their daily life more attention, do early detection and early treatment.