Eczema Treatment Care

Question by Esther: Why does eczema randomly appears? Has anyone heard of Herose? (so called treatment for eczema)?
OK. my eczema experience goes like this..
i was a toddler, i had eczema on my elbows. then it went off.
then i got it around my mouth when i was 12, that was due to stress.
then when i was 13, it disappeared and i was fine.
it came back when i was 14. turmoil year. i had eczema on my face, front of my neck, folds of my arms, the back of my legs. the areas where i sweat. at the start of the year, i was playing a lot of tennis, so i had white spots on my face, people told me they were sweat spots. then suddenly they appeared on my right hand. my baby finger web. one tiny patch of it. then it went off after a while. then suddenly it appeared on my index finger web. just one small patch of it. then it went off. then it appeared on the side of my middle finger. went off again. then came back on the other side. now, i have it real bad. on my index finger web, whole middle finger, and a bit on my baby finger web. how does it randomly just come back?
and it’s only on my RIGHT HAND. my left hand is perfect. and it’s not on the back of my hand either. just on the webs.
i stopped all steroid usage because i started a homeopathy treatment called herose. has anyone heard of it?
to me it sounds like my eczema is a mix of child eczema and some other weird kind.
does anyone have symptoms kinda like mine?
one other thing i noticed. stress is a big factor of it. when i was in bali, my skin was perfect. it just disappeared. smooth. no scars.
plus, it’s soo hard not to scratch. i tried emu cream. which only made me itch worse.
and for some reason when i put lotion on the affected areas (excluding face) it makes me itch worse,

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Answer by curator
Eczema (atopic dermatitis) is an inborn tendency to have easily irritated skin. It is associated with your immune system which is why stress often makes it worse. Sun can suppress the immune system and often makes it better (Bali). Hands get the most abuse of daily life with all the washing and exposure to cleansers and things, so they have more trouble in adults than the skin folds. I have not heard os herose. I typically use a combination of topical steroids and moisturizers because that’s what works. Tars may help as well.

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Question by Jenio: Does anyone know a home remedy for hand eczema (Pompholyx) ?
I am having a severe outbreak that is incredibly painful. I can’t afford to go to the doctor. Over the past few days I have been soaking my hands in vinegar water and putting a hydrocortisone cream on. Not only has this not helped, the outbreak has become worse. It is on both hands and starting to spread to my face. What can I do to get rid of it? Also, I was curious if it is spread by contact. This is the first time I have had it on my face and I don’t understand how it got there.

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Answer by Van Bo
It is not spread by contact. Try soothing it with Aloe Vera gel.

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Question by kween_r2001: Can anyone out there help me? I have a chronic skin condition that looks like ring worm…?
It’s circular in shape and starts off small (often times two tiny circles side by side). The circle (or circles) grow larger and larger and seems to go through a cycle of sorts before it finally fades and goes away, only to return later (sometimes months, sometimes years even before it comes back again). Lately, each time it comes back, it has been presenting with more and more circular lesions forming in the general area (like a cluster or them). All of the circular lesions go through the same cycle like pattern. The lesions often itch, but not always. They are rough and red on the exterior (like a ring) and somewhat smooth on the inside with less color. This condition has been coming and going in the same general area of my inner thigh for some 14 years and doctors seem dumbfounded. I’ve been to several doctors about it no one seems to have definitive answer about what this disgusting looking “disease” it on my skin. Some said it looks like “nummular eczema” but I’ve read in several places that that more likely affect elderly men. (I’m a 45 yo female who has had this condition for 14 years. ) Some doctors said it looks like ring worm, and treated it to no avail.

Help! Anyone who might have a clue. I’m getting desperate here.

Thanks.

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Answer by MamaBas
If you look it up, you will see it’s supposed to respond to the same thing that’s in Canesten cream. I don’t know if it will help in your case (surely the docs. can get it sorted out? – Specialist?) but it might be worth a try?

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Question by Leigh: Can anyone help me identify a large rash on my back? (pictures included!)?
I first noticed a spot on my back that my boyfriend and I thought was an insect bite. I had an outer-circle of itchy, red, raised bumps and a single bump in the middle (sort of a ‘bulls eye’ effect, about 1.5 inches in diameter–first picture). The first doctor told me it was either ringworm or nummular eczema, and the anti-fungal cream had no effect (the spot continued to expand) but the corticosteriod cream caused it to stop spreading and it faded and stopped the itch. After the prescribed 2-weeks of use I stopped, and within a few days it started getting red again, growing larger, and became a sort of cluster of bumps about 3 inches in diameter with additional smaller circles forming around it as well (3 to be exact–2nd picture). That was in the course of a month, and about a week ago the ‘red bumpy areas’ got really dry/scaly and a thick, red, raised border formed along the outside of each red area. Most of the ‘circles’ are touching each other and the total area it covers on my back about 5 – 6 inches long/4 inches wide. The doctor I saw today spent a while looking through his skin-books before he came up with a diagnosis, and then said he thinks it’s an ‘atypical case’ because it looks slightly different.

I don’t want to say his diagnosis because I don’t want to bias anyone… but I’m wondering if ANYONE has had anything similar and how long it took to clear up and/or what they had to use to do so. Any other ideas just what it might be?

Any advice/suggestions are appreciated!

Pictures (I apologize for the images, but I did this quickly and couldn’t figure out how to re-size them to equal size):

http://www.geocities.com/itsy_chik/Rash
Thanks for the responses so far… I figued I’d add what the doctor told me. He said it definitely wasn’t shingles (and there isn’t any pain involved, just itching!) and he thinks it’s an ‘atypical form of EAC– Erythema Annulare Centrifugum.’ Although from the pictures on the internet, I don’t think it looks like that either and most of those cases don’t seem to have much itching involved. I don’t think there’s an infection (no pus or open sores, just dry, raised, red, itchy skin). Other ideas? Thanks for the responses so far!

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Answer by peaceful
My daughter had the ringworm looking circle with the bump in the center. Her doctor immediately thought that it was MRSA because it had it’s characteristics. She tested her for it but the test was negative. She didn’t know exactly what it was but decided to try an ointment called altabax to see what affect it would have. Thank God it worked. It cleared up in a matter of three days.

I would ask the doctor about MRSA. If he hasn’t already checked for this then I would find another dr.

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Question by Liz&Iz: Anyone have suggestions on how to manage my 4 month old infant’s weepy facial wounds from eczema?
We went to our ped. and he put her on bactroban for a week. That didn’t work. Then he put her on keflex for a week and that also didn’t work. We’re waiting to see a pediatric derm. but that’s not until middle of Sept. The worst of her eczema is at her face. She has six weepy sores. My ped. said for now just use the bactroban at my disgretion until I see the ped. derm.
The ped. first prescribed the .5 hydrocortisone, that also did nothing.

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Answer by Kaska
Call the office and ask if they have any cancellations. Do this until you can get an earlier appointment.

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