Symptoms of eczema in infants

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Infantile eczema is one of the common skin diseases in infancy, commonly known as "ringworm of milk". It is an allergic skin disease caused by food allergy such as milk, breast milk and egg white. It may also be a skin disease caused by genetic quality. If parents suffer from eczema when they are young, their babies are also prone to eczema. Now let's talk about the symptoms of infant eczema

Symptoms of eczema in infants

1. The onset of eczema in infants is mostly in 1-3 months after birth, and gradually alleviates after 6 months. Most of the infants gradually recover after 1-2 years old. Some of the children are in early childhood or childhood. The severity of the disease varies. Skin rash is more common in the head and face, such as the forehead, cheeks, head, and then gradually spread to the chin, neck, shoulders, back, buttocks, limbs, and even the whole body.

2. At the beginning, there are scattered or clustered small red papules or erythema, gradually increasing, and small blisters, yellowish white scales and crusts can be seen. There may be exudation, erosion and secondary infection. Children with irritability, crying at night, affect sleep, often itching. Because the lesion of eczema is in epidermis, there is no scar after healing.

3. The onset of the disease is acute. The skin is characterized by many clusters of small red papules and erythema, basal edema, and soon turns into papules and small blisters. After the blister is broken, it is eroded, with obvious yellow exudation or covered with yellow white serous scab. The thickness varies, and gradually spreads around. Scattered small papules can be seen on the periphery, also known as satellite rash. Facial skin may be flushed and swollen. Intererosive sites such as armpit, groin, anus and other places can be involved and combined with erosion. If the nursing is improper, the secondary infection often occurs in the whole body. At this stage, the sick children can't sleep at night and are restless. The patients with infection may have low fever. 　

matters needing attention

Because the etiology is complex, it is difficult to determine and recurrent. Severe itching can be secondary to local and lymph node infection, very few cases can occur systemic infection, sepsis, toxemia, high fever, diarrhea, increased peripheral blood neutrophils, and sometimes toxic particles.