Atypical Dermatitis

The Dermatitis Atypical is a recurrent and chronic suffering of the skin that is characterized for wounds with reddening, prurient intense, and often dryness in different parts of the body, that is presented in sharp episodes, for times and variable intensity, and generally also with periods “healthy” of variable duration.  Besides it is characterized for declaring a very high reactivity of the skin to physical stimuli and direct irritants, and a greater sensitivity to certain type of cutaneous infections (as the mushrooms or the staphylococci).

The Dermatitis Atópica is a factor of risk for the subsequent development of asthma.

A heritable genetic tendency in this has been able to be shown suffering, often connected with other illnesses, as the Bronchial Asthma and the Rhinitis Allergic, because of it, the participation of allergic reactions has been able to be shown like cause of the great majority of the cases with this suffering, although we have to clarify that many other factors they exist that influence in the evolution and severity of the Dermatitis Atypical.

Previously, it was known to this suffering since Neurodermatitis”, since was shown that this type of skin has an abnormal reaction in certain cutaneous reflections, due to alterations in the sensitive nervous terminations, that normally they control, for example, the sweating, the enlargement of the capillary the secretion of the glands leaseback of the skin.  Unfortunately, this has originated that be misinterpreted like a suffering of psychological origin “nervous”, and that, still to date, many of these cases be handled inadequately with pain killers, psychotherapist, etc.

At present is known, that, although the stress ó the intense emotions can irritate ó to produce a new bud of dermatitis, this does not mean that that be the cause of the suffering in itself.  This is, the stress is another more than the factors that influence in this suffering, as well as also they are it: the excess of sweat; of sun; of cold; the graze with rough clothes; the direct contact with irritating substances as the solvent, soaps, detergent, flammable, and certain metals.
As for allergic factors, the food are, with a lot, the more often related to the cutaneous sensitizing, whether we consume ó they contacted directly by the skin.  Also very frequent they are the sensibilities cutaneous direct of very diverse types: creams lubricants; with antibiotics; some soaps and detergent; plastic Materials as the latex, nylon, the Lycra ó the Dacron; and some metals like the nickel and the zinc utilized as alloy in the buttons of the clothes, extendibles and jewelry store of fantasy ó fine.

Angioedema the majority of the cases they are presented for sharp bud of irritation of some zones of the skin, and the places affected vary a lot depending on the age of the person affected.  In the nursing is frequent in cheeks, front, chest, back and external lateral surfaces of legs and arms and internal part of wrists.  In school children they tend to appear more in the folds of the skin of neck, arms, and folds of knees, and in the phase of adult can continue with predominance of folds, but they appear also in the shape of chronic fixed wounds in different parts of the body, in the thorax, arms legs and can affect also the hands, above all in women.

The distinctive and main characteristic of any of the forms of the illness is the prurient itch, that is used to being intense and from time to time difficult to control.  Some times these episodes yield alone if they are not intense, and do not require medicines ó special creams, nevertheless, the majority of the times yes they are needed.  These they fallen few days can last to be maintained for times very prolonged, depending on the cause and of the severity and extension of the zones affected in each case.

How Can it Treat the Urticaria the evolution, in most cases, is toward the total remission of them fallen, but the process normally carries years, many few, as be the initial severity of the suffering.  In the most severe cases, with wounds in most of the body, and that respond with difficulty to the conventional processing, the improvement with the passage of time is used to being little and very few the odds that be cured totally with any type of processing.  These cases are used to being extremely sensitive to a great variety of allergens and they are used to accompany by other abnormalities in their immune system (of “defense”), for which they require of the intervention of a specialist in Allergy, therefore they require of additional special studies and more aggressive processing.