Eczema Treatment in Poughkeepsie, NY | Art of Skin

Eczema

Eczema Eczema is a condition that makes your skin irritated and itchy. It often causes a rash that’s red, blistery, oozing, scaly or brownish. There are several types of eczema, including atopic dermatitis, contact dermatitis, nummular eczema and dyshidrotic eczema. However, the most common is atopic dermatitis. Millions live with atopic dermatitis. In fact, one in 10 Americans has atopic dermatitis.

Atopic dermatitis is often called atopic eczema or simply eczema. It usually develops by age five, but people of all ages, from newborns to adults 65 years of age and older, live with this condition. Atopic dermatitis is not contagious.

The Treatment

While atopic dermatitis cannot be cured, The Art of Skin Dermatology can offer an eczema treatment plan that can help control it:

Reduce flare-ups
Ease itching and pain
Prevent it from worsening
Lower your risk of infection
Lower your risk of developing thickened skin, which tends to itch

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Allergic Contact Dermatitis

Allergic contact dermatitis is a type of eczema that causes itchy, red, irritated skin. Its first sign is often itchy skin, followed by a rash and possibly blisters. You can get allergic contact dermatitis when things you touch, or that touch you, annoy or irritate your skin. Did you know that more than 15,000 things that touch our skin can cause an allergic reaction—including fragrances and nickel?

In some cases, people get contact dermatitis when the sun hits their skin. The American Academy of Dermatology gives this example: a bartender may squeeze lemons and limes while indoors and never develop a rash. However, when they squeeze lemons and limes outdoors on a sunny day, a painful rash and large blisters develop where the sunlight hits the skin coated with juices.

Contact dermatitis is not contagious.

Poison Ivy

Poison ivy symptoms almost always include an itchy skin rash, redness and swelling and blisters. The rash is caused by an allergic reaction to an oily resin in the leaves called urushiol. Up to 90% of people who come into contact with poison ivy oil develop an itchy rash. You don’t have to be exposed to much—just 50 micrograms of urushiol, an amount smaller than a grain of salt, is enough to cause a reaction.

How do you identify poison ivy? Each leaf of the poison ivy plant has three leaflets. Consider this rule: “Leaves of three, let them be.” Poison ivy leaves turn reddish in the spring, green in the summer and yellow, orange or red in the fall.

Poison ivy grows as a shrub or a vine. A poison ivy vine is hairy and rope-like. Eastern U.S. poison ivy typically grows as a vine. Western U.S. poison ivy normally grows low to the ground as a shrub. Poison ivy does not have thorns and may have white berries.

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