What are the symptoms of pediatric eczema?

A common ** disease in infancy, eczema can occur in infants at 2 to 3 months, gradually reduce after 1 year old, and most of them can heal spontaneously after 2 years old, but a few can extend to early childhood or childhood.

1.It is more common in the head and face, and in severe cases, it can invade the neck, shoulder blades, and even all over the body.

2.Characteristics of skin lesions: The following three types are common.

1) Seborrheic type: It is more common in infants 1 to 2 months after birth. The lesions appear in small erythematous patches on the forehead, cheeks, and eyebrows, with yellow greasy scales, and mild erosions on the neck, armpits, and groin.

2) Wet type (exudative type): more common in indigestion, obesity, 3 to 6 months of infants. Lesions are erythematous, papules, vesicles, erosions, and oozing.

3) Dry type (dry type): It is more common in malnourished, emaciated or dry infants over 1 year old. Flushing, dryness, scaling, or papules and infiltrating patches should be affected, often reversed. Delay is difficult to heal.

3.Because of paroxysmal itching, children often rub and scratch the affected area. Irritability, crying and restlessness.

4.Secondary infection can occur due to scratching ** damage, causing nearby nucleus swelling and pain, accompanied by fever, loss of appetite and other systemic symptoms.

There are generally three types: 1 Seborrheic infantile eczema: It mostly occurs in infants between 1 and 2 months after birth.

Forehead, between the eyebrows, cheeks** flushed, with yellow greasy scales, and a thick lipid crust on the top of the head. **There may be flushing, erosion, oozing, etc. in the folds. 2. Exudative infantile eczema:

Occurs in obese infants, first on the forehead, cheeks of erythema, papules, small blisters, small pustules, erosion due to itching and scratching, water, bleeding, crusting, severe cases gradually develop and involve the scalp, ears, neck, trunk, limbs, skin lesions are not clear, often secondary infection. 3. Dry infant eczema: more common in babies with thin constitution.

The rash tends to occur on the flexor side of the face and extremities, and is dominated by erythema, papules, gray fur scales, and itching. Children often have dyspepsia or long-term chronic diarrhea. Either type, there are paroxysmal episodes of intense itching, causing the baby to cry and sleep disturbed.

It is recommended to use some ointments, such as pediatric moisturizing ointment** infantile eczema drugs, to prevent the deterioration of the condition.

Most rashes are on the cheeks, forehead, glabellars, and head, and in severe cases, on the chest, back, and extremities. The rash is erythematous at first, followed by a rash with small punctate protrusions or a blister-like rash (medically called papules, herpes), which is very itchy, and the herpes can break and drain fluid, and when the liquid dries, it forms a crust. Eczema is often symmetrically distributed.

Eczema xerosa is manifested as red papules, which may be red and swollen, with pityriasis scaling and dry crusts on the papules, which are very itchy.

Seborrheic eczema is manifested as **flushing, and a small maculopapular rash exudes a yellowish fatty fluid covering the rash, which forms a thick yellow crust later, which is not easy to remove, and is more common on the top of the head and eyebrows, next to the nose, and behind the ears, but the itching sensation is not obvious.

Exudative type. It is more common in fatter infants, with sores and erythema between the red rash, there can be ** tissue swelling, very itchy, yellow serous oozing or bleeding after scratching, the rash can spread to the trunk, limbs and the whole body, and is easy to secondary infection.

The rash is more common on the head and face, and gradually spreads to the neck, shoulders, trunk, and limbs. The skin lesions are polymorphic, with erythema or erythematous papules at the beginning, which can gradually increase with the progression of the disease, and papules, small blisters, erosions, crusts, etc., sometimes good and sometimes bad, and reversed. There is itching, the child cries at night, and is restless.

Secondary infection can occur due to scratching, causing regional lymphadenopathy, and in rare cases, systemic infection can occur.

Symptoms of eczema in babies.