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DERMATITIS

Dermatitis

The DERMATITIS OF CONTACT or ECCEMA OF the HOUSEWIVES is an acute irritation of the skin caused by one the contact with the same one of a substance that causes an inflammatory reaction in the skin.

It is a disease of the common skin, that in puridad Dermatosis or Eccema of contact would have to be denominated.

Causes

Contact with irritating industrial substances; like sprays, acids, dissolvents or dyes.

Irritating natural like zumaque poisonous and the tree of the fleas.

Metals and alloys of such used in jewelry shop and imitation jewellery, mainly the chromium.

Medication of topical use.

Cosmetics (chemical).

Some of these substances produce symptoms to all the people who contact with them, others only to the sensible people to them.

Signs and symptoms

Picazón.

Slight reddening.

Zones of a red color hard with supuración (in the serious cases).

Cracks and fissures in the skin.

Factors of risk

Occupation or hobbies that force to him to be in contact with the enemy with irritating substances.

Burns of hot water or the sun.

Constant exhibition to the hot water, detergent or any irritating one that varies the humidity degree of the skin.

Prevention

Avoid the contact with any irritating substance that has caused a dermatitis to him in the past.

To take rubber gloves will be to him helpful, but so that the sweat and the humidity do not make worse the symptoms, they will have to be used on cotton gloves.

Protéjase to the skin of the solar burns and burns of any other type.

Diagnosis and treatment

DIAGNOSIS:

The diagnosis is made normally by visual inspection, being left the part most important - and sometimes complex to determine what abridges or substances are those that have produced it.

TREATMENT:

The effective treatment implies the elimination of the allergic agents, avoiding irritating substances and other factors that precipitate the development of the disease, and alleviating picazón and the inflammation.

Use only prescribed creams, pomadas lotions or for its affection.

Any other commercial product could aggravate its state.

Aplíquese pomada or a cream in the hands 6 or 7 times to the day. For any other part of the body, twice to the day

To the hour of the bath:

Use oil of bath or glycerin soaps instead of bath soaps.

Instead of rubbing the skin, it séquese by means of small taps.

Reduce the temperature of the water to tibia, as much for the bath as for any other use.

Specially after the bath, the cream aplíquese.

Reduce the dissolvent use to the maximum.

Use gloves:

Preferably, resistant vinyl gloves, covered in cotton ç

With this form the contact of the naked skin with irritating substances is prepared as they can be the water, the abrasive soap, detergent, metallic objects, the abrasive dusts, the painting painting, extender, the turpentine spirit and the wax for cars, grounds, shoes, furniture or metals.

Dry the interior of the gloves after its use.

Reject the gloves that have holes.

Llévelos when it expresses or pele lemons, oranges, pomelos, tomatos or potatoes.

Of leather or a loneta they are most appropriate to make the works of the house or the garden.

Use lavavajillas (if it has him) to wash to the plates or pídale to another person who does it by you.

Quítese the ring before making the works of the house or to wash the hands.

For the dermatosis of contact due to metallic objects (like metallic clocks, ring, slopes, bellboys and clasps) a solution is to paint with a transparent varnish the surfaces in contact with the skin (déjelo to dry completely, the minus two or three days; the greater irritating industrialists are dissolvent).

Medication

The creams, pomadas and lotions of topical use are advisable, always for the acute stage of the dermatosis.

These creams will have to include in their composition prepared steroids that reduce the inflammation and/or lubricants that conserve the humidity of the skin.

The definitive treatment happens to avoid the contact with the irritating ones.

Complications

Secondary bacterial infection.

Generalized eruption.

Sensibilización to other substances, that previously did not cause symptoms.

Prognosis

The symptoms can be controlled avoiding irritating substances and by means of a treatment.

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