This was the question always on my mind.
I have had eczema since I was 12 + my daughter has eczema., butt my daughter was in a chronic state of severe eczema and I couldn't understand why or what was causing this.
:20 Introduction to Dr Patel
1:29 Observing the difference between symptom + cause
1:44 Chronic health conditions
2:30 The rise of eczema, anxiety and other chronic health conditions
3:41 Kids effected
4:45 Eczema treatment
5:33 Eczema cause
6.02 Eczema and skin infection
9.00 Decrease inflammation in the body
Eczema is an inflammatory condition so the skin really dries out.
You want to create a barrier on top of the skin, keep an oily moisturizer or an aqueous moisturizer as much as you can on the skin.
Your skin always has to be glistening, if it's not glistening then you're not putting enough on.
You should moisturise up to 5 times a day, or sometimes up to 20-30 times to keep it moist.
Eczema is an inflammatory condition.
When you talk about inflammation you've got heat and redness in the skin, and the steroid, sort of suppresses the immune response and decreases that inflammation in the skin.
Find the cause of the inflammation.