Eczema

Terminology

• Many authors use the terms dermatitis and eczema synonymously
• Others use the term eczema to specifically mean atopic dermatitis
• Atopic dermatitis is also known as atopic eczema

Types

• Atopic dermatitis: Dry, itchy, red skin
• Contact dermatitis
• Stasis dermatitis
• Dermatitis herpetiformis: Itching, Stinging , Burning sensation. Papules / Vesicles. Small red bumps are usually about 1 cm in size, red in color and may be found symmetrically grouped or distributed
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis: Appear gradually, from dry or greasy scaling of the scalp (dandruff) to scaling of facial areas. Sometimes itching, but without hair loss. In newborns, the condition causes a thick and yellowish scalp rash, often accompanied by a diaper rash. In severe cases, symptoms may appear along the hairline, behind the ears, on the eyebrows, on the bridge of the nose, around the nose, on the chest, and on the upper back

Sign / Symptoms

• Redness of skin
• Swelling, itching
• Skin lesions with sometimes oozing and scarring.

Repertory

• Raised skin lesions: Bry, Crot-h, Cupr-ac, Tarax
• Accompanies by internal maladies: Graph
• Desquamative: Merc, Nit-ac, Rhus-t, Sep, Sul
• Offensive: Psor, Sul
• Flat skin lesions: Bell, Lach
• Skin lesions like clusters of grapes: Calc
• Rough eczema: Hep
• Hair skin eczema: Merc, Nat-m, Rhus-t
• Gard eczema: Ant-c. Ran-b

First class remedies

Nat-m

Sil

Sul

Thuj

Dulc

• Crusted
  • Moist herpetic rash
  • Yellow-brown with a red border
  • Dry, coarse scabby
  • Bleeds when scratched

• Rash may spread all over the body (Dulc ₳ Psor)
• Sensitive to touch (Scratching agg)

• Herpetic / Vesicular /Moist /Exudating rashes which leads to eczema

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - Body; all over sweet. Psor. Ran-b

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - crusty

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - moist

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular - yellow

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - herpetic - glands; Covered with sweet. graph.

SKIN - ERUPTIONS - vesicular - burning

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Eczema

Graph

• It has vesicular / Herpetic / Exudating eruption which leads to Eczema
• Small, crusty, dry and scaly rashes (Graph ₳ Petr)
• Eyelids Eczema: Cracked but moist rashes
• The edge of the eyelids is red and covered with dandruff and crust
• Oozing rashes: clear, watery and sticky secretions that scab over the rash
• Unhealthy/sensitive skin that easily infects with any trauma (Hep, Merc)
• Abscess and opening of old breast wounds
• Hands and palms

Med

Petr

Calc: Mild eczemaMez: scalp

Borx: scalp

Astacus fluviatilis: scalp

Nit-ac: Hands and palms

Miasms

1. HSV-1, SHBV
2. GABHS
3. CXA, CXB, ECHO,HHV-8, HSV-2, HTLV-1

Related disease

Herpetic eruptions