Eczema and urticaria are the two most common allergic skin diseases in people’s life, also known as skin allergy.
The course of the disease can be divided into acute and chronic, and many people will relapse repeatedly, thus affecting the quality of life.
Today we will briefly talk about the similarities and differences between the two diseases.
Eczema: Red maculopapule with pruritus
This is a typical manifestation of acute eczema, with red maculopapules and exudation:
Then this eczema may become like this after it dries out of water:
Most people come to see a doctor in this form. Then some people will, for various reasons, financial difficulties or distrust of the doctor, do not come to see a doctor and endure it all the time. After a long scratching and rubbing, they later find that scalding the rash with hot water is especially reassuring. Later, it will become like this:
I sincerely hope that all skin colleagues can ask the patient when they see such skin lesions, did you scald it with hot water? Then add that you are not allowed to scald it with hot water.
Because the hot water washes away the grease on the skin surface, causing dryness. Only when it is cold and numb can it feel cool, and then it will become more itchy, because it is dry and peeling, and even cracks cause infection, which is even worse.
Summary: The skin lesions of eczema are usually red maculopapules with itching.
Urticaria: A flaky bulge that can disappear by itself, accompanied by severe itching.
The skin lesions of urticaria are generally as follows:
Well, they are patches and bulges. Although urticaria has 11 etiological types, most urticaria and cross scratch are positive, that is to say, you use a cotton swab stick to draw a cross on the intact skin of his body, and after 3 minutes, it will become like this:
It swells up and artificially induces a skin lesion. It can even be used for self-entertainment:
Yes, if you want to write about what, write about what. They are like real urticaria lesions. If you don’t scratch, they will disappear in a while.
However, it is very itchy. The itching of urticaria is severe itching. My experience is that half of the people who come to seek medical treatment cannot sleep until night and will wake up with itching.
Summarize again: The typical skin lesion of urticaria is flaky bulge, accompanied by severe itching, which appears in batches and can disappear on its own, but a new batch appears after disappearing.-Then the patient came to see a doctor.
Of course, old eczema, scratching and scratching may also merge into pieces. Urticaria also has papular urticaria. Encountered this kind of situation, oneself can’t distinguish, go to find a dermatologist, these two are common diseases, dermatologist should watch many every day, certainly can identify.
This is what ordinary people need to know: whether one by one, or one by one, will disappear by itself, and whether cross scratch is positive.
The treatment is simple and hormones should be used with caution.
Even if they are really clumsy and cannot identify them, they have many similarities in treatment. They all advocate taking antihistamines orally and using hormones cautiously. For example, the above pictures are not severe, and hormones can be used externally and do not need to be taken orally.
In addition, both diseases are likely to recur, so when you are young, you must use hormones carefully and under the guidance of doctors. Otherwise, after 20 to 30 years, there will be no medicine available.
Author: Chen Yulan