Here are six good ideas to try and calm down symptoms of hand eczema: 1. Take an antihistamine. This stops the chemicals in your skin that are telling your brain that your hands itch. Benadryl is a time-tested and very effective choice. It does cause most people to become sleepy. If this is a problem, [...]

If you have eczema, you may also have food allergies, whether you are aware of them or not. People with eczema have a tendency to be allergic, which means they can have any of a number of other allergic conditions. In addition to food allergies, these include hay fever (allergic rhinitis) and asthma. For some [...]

Most people cannot get around the idea that they need a daily bath, and so do their children and infants. It is probably true from a social hygiene point of view, and even more, as children and infants get dirty in any number of ways. A daily bath or shower with soap robs the skin [...]

One well-known fact in dermatology is something you may have observed yourself, or perhaps your mother told you: The more you scratch, the more you itch. It also goes the other way: the more you itch, the more you scratch. It becomes a vicious cycle of itching and scratching. People with eczema have plenty of [...]

People with eczema have sensitive, itchy skin. Anything that irritates that kind of skin makes it worse. When considering clothes, wool is the worst offender. Wool can be extremely scratchy and irritating. While it is not actually an allergy, people with eczema should usually not wear wool clothes. If you have a baby or small [...]

If you or a family member has allergies, you may already know about the allergic triad, perhaps without realizing its significance. Allergic individuals tend to have three problems – eczema, hay fever (allergic rhinitis) and asthma. The skin and the breathing passages react to things in the environment that they misperceive as dangerous, which leads [...]