What are the methods for checking eczema in children?

In summer, babies will have varying degrees of eczema on their bodies and faces, causing them to feel uncomfortable and cry constantly. Mothers feel particularly uncomfortable watching this. Let’s learn with mothers what are the methods for checking pediatric eczema?

Related examinations: Skin color, physical examination of skin diseases, laboratory examination of rash may be accompanied by eosinophilia in peripheral blood, high serum total IgE, increased serum specific IgE, etc.

Related diagnosis: history of external infection or unclean diet. Skin lesions are polymorphic, with mixed appearance of erythema, papules, blisters (no bullae), erosions, exudates, and scabs. They are often caused or aggravated by eating fish, shrimp, crabs, mutton, coffee, alcohol, spicy foods, etc. Skin lesions are mostly localized, with clear boundaries, dark red or gray-brown, covered with scales, rough and thickened surface skin, obvious skin grooves, lichenification, or hyperkeratotic chapped inflammatory patches. Laboratory tests show no specific changes, and blood eosinophils may increase. Skin patch tests have certain limitations.

Related treatments:

Clear the wound secretions, eliminate chemical irritation, and control the infection, and the condition can improve rapidly.

1. Remove the cause

Parents should pay close attention to internal and external factors that may easily induce the disease, try to find possible pathogenic factors and eliminate them, actively cooperate with treatment, and keep the skin clean.

2. External treatment

For external use, you can choose compound cod liver oil ointment and ethacridine zinc oxide cream in combination with creams containing corticosteroids, such as 1％ mometasone furoate and beclomethasone propionate cream.

3. Hormone therapy

Actively treat systemic diseases and eliminate lesions. For patients with acute and widespread disease or those who are ineffective with multiple treatments, short-term use of corticosteroids, such as oral prednisone, may be considered.