Eczema on hands

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Eczema is a skin disease that affects people of all ages, but for both genders the common cause is usually genetic. What body parts does eczema normally affect? Well, it can be seen almost everywhere on the skin.

You can recognize eczema by the following symptoms: dryness of skin, repeated rashes, redness of the skin, skin swelling/edema, itching, crusting, blistering, flaking, oozing, cracking and even bleeding. Healing lesions could also be associated with a slight discoloration of the skin. However, scarring, very seldom accompanies eczema.

The hand eczema is a very common condition. It affects 10% of women and 4% of men, according to Ronald Vender, MD, FRCCP. Apparently, hand eczema is reported in relation to some special kind of physical work being usually encountered with people with small children and with mechanics, hairdressers, surgeons, dental workers, homemakers and others. What do all these people have in common? The answer is that they work in wet environments; therefore, humidity is a favoring factor for this skin condition.

Approximately 75% of people who suffer from eczema have the type called contact dermatitis. This can be allergic or irritant and it is difficult to make the difference between them sometimes. Hand eczema varies in severity from one patient to another but it usually begins with mild dryness and a little redness.

Initially it manifests between fingers and on them and it can become very itchy and scaly. Like the other types of eczema, in time, hand eczema may also lead to the appearance of blisters and cracks on hand skin. If left untreated the condition will gradually spread to the skin of feet and arms.

The most common trigger of hand eczema is therepeated wetting and drying of hands. There are three situations that show a possibility to develop hand eczema: if you had atopic eczema in your childhood, if you have a history of hay fever or asthma, and if you have psoriasis. Fortunately there are a few things you can do to ease your hand eczema symptoms and get rid of the condition. Besides the practical advice that any health care provider will give you in such situations there are also some pharmaceutical products from which your doctor will surely select the best. Don’t hand wash dishes, use loose rubber gloves with a pair of cotton gloves inside to avoid both contact with water and detergents and sweating of the hands caused by the rubber or vinyl gloves worn directly on the hands.

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