Allergic Skin

Counsels For the Care of the Allergic Skin

The great majority of the people with allergic skin they have the very lean skin, above all in certain zones of the body, besides being very sensitive to a great variety of external stimuli ó internal.  By this reason is necessary that are believed the habit to be taken care of the skin all the life.  The following they are some counsels that will help him in its care; the rigorousness of these measures will depend on the severity and the frequency of the problem, and if is found or not in its active phase.

Avoid to Damage the Skin 1.  Avoid the excess of humidity:  Use short baths, it less frequent than they be permitted it their activities (in children, each 2 to 5 days) using the water it more possible cold.  Avoid the baths prolonged in pools, tubs ó sea.  Dry the skin without carving it.  The towels should not have residues of suavizantes.  2.  Avoid the excess of sweat:  Itself not too much in epoch be sheltered of cold ó heat.  If it does exercise use the clothes more light possible.  Is preferably to be bathed with cold water if sweated too much.  3.  Avoid irritants of the skin:  For the bath use the soaps less alkaline possible (“neuter”), and of preference without perfumes.  In case of active wounds, not the figure, less with soap, only rinse with water.  Replacements of the soap exist ó creams “dermo-cleaning” (Cetaphyl, Avecyde, Aquanyl) for those occasions.

Do not use biological detergents to wash the clothes, use preferably soap of player (any) direct ó melted for its washing machine, with the water it more hot possible, and to rinse it perfectly (at least 2 cycles of rinse in its washing machine).  Try not to use suavizantes of fabric, if uses will require them of 3 cycles to rinse.

The shampoos for hair should be used in form separated of the normal bath if exist active wounds, so that the shampoo drain not on the skin injured.  Try to use the less aggressive for the skin, like those of baby (Baby Magic, Johnson, etc.)  Try to use the smoothest clothes al touch and light possible; the interior clothes of preference of cotton, and with covered elastics by the same fabric.  Avoid rough clothes of nylon, Lycra, acrylán ó wool directly on the skin, above all in the skin already injured.

Due to that is a suffering that is characterized for producing prurito intense (“itch” ó “rasquera”), is very important to bring the clean and always short nails, especially the small children.

Food:

Some natural food exist that contain substances that can produce itch ó that cause him allergy directly in its skin, and that therefore is prudent to avoid always.

The food that more produce reactions are: the citrus (orange and lemon); the Chile; the pepper; the pineapple; the tomato; the strawberry; the chocolate; the shellfish; the nut and the peanuts.  Another group they form it the majority of the food industrialized that they contain chemical conservatives of diverse types (benzoatos, sulphite, citrates, nitritos, etc.) some synthetic colorants and some saborizantes artificial.  All they are capable of inducing more wounds or prurito.  Try to avoid them in the possible thing.

If you already noted that some food natural ó industrialized particularly has produced itch ó wounds, ó has increased them, owe to be considered “allergic” to him, and to avoid it always from there on.

Lubrication of the Skin

The Dermatitis Atópica is characterized for a poor production of grease in the skin, above all in certain zones, by which is done almost always necessary to apply creams ó lubricants with a lot of frequency.  Due to that the baths very hot ó prolonged desgrasan more the skin, them do not we recommend.

After the bath and of the removed of the skin, the use of a cream is suggested suavizante, the one that you prefer and that “fall him well”.  We recommend that have not lanolin, of preference the “cold creams” with less products chemical aggregates, above all without perfumes.  Many options exist.  It will be able to use greasier creams in the winter.  The one that choose, owe to be used at least once al day, after the bath, but generally is necessary to use them several times al day, depending on the degree of dryness of their skin, and the cream that you choose, in spite of the fact that not active wounds in that exist moment.

Medicines

When active wounds of dermatitis exist, like reddening, ronchitas, cracks, ó engrosamiento of the skin, they owe to be used creams with anti-inflammatory medicines of type corticosteroid ó cortisones, -always recetadas by a doctor, of preference specialist-, of the ones that exist a great variety of powers and presentations.  At times they will deserve to be accompanied for antiseptic ó antibiotic local in form separated ó mixed.  In most cases they should be taken besides antihistamínicos, which they remove the allergic reaction and they diminish the prurito immediate.  It is necessary to emphasize that the creams with cortisone indicated and applied in form adapted by a specialist, they are the base of a fast improvement in this type of suffering, for which they do not owe to be stop applying if they are indicated.  If still it has doubts on the type, frequency and time of application of these creams, consult us before suspending them.

It should be understood well that the majority of the people with allergy of the skin have it always very sensitive, and in spite of a good initial evolution, they can be presented easily fallen owed al chronic character of the suffering, since other associated factors to the allergy related to the high sensibility of this exist also type of skin.