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Skin allergies
Urticaria

Urticaria is also known as hives, rashes because they are similar to those after contact with the nettle. They can be separate or blend together. Can occur throughout the body, or only certain parts.

Acute urticaria lasts several hours to several days and is usually caused by allergies.
Chronic urikarija take several weeks or months and is rarely due to allergy.
Angioedema is a special form of urticaria in which swell the soft tissues and mucous membranes, especially in the face, lips and eyes (eg, eyelids), but also in other parts of the body.
A special form of angioedema is Quinquejev edema, which occurs on the mucous membranes of the mouth and throat. Due to swelling of the tongue and throat, difficulty breathing and may cause suffocation.

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Causes of urticaria:

    * Food allergy,
    * Allergy medicines
    * Allergy to insect stings,
    * Allergy nacvetni dust, mold, etc..,
    * Infection
    * Physical factors such as cold, sun, or pressure on the skin.

Signs of illness

    * Skin rash, always itchy

Atopic dermatitis

Mostly it occurs very early in childhood, often already in the age of three months, in 80 percent until they completed the first year. The disease lasts several years. In two thirds of children disappears around six years, while others can last a lifetime.

Signs of illness

    * Rash with redness and scratches on the folds of the upper arm and on the cheeks
    * Desquamation
    * Agitation
    * Sleep disturbances

After reaching the second year of life is unpredictable occurrence of rash. The rash appears and disappears, time and location, we can not predict.
During the fourth and tenth years of age appears rash with redness and oak on the skin, usually on knee bend, the elbows and the neck.

How to care for a child with atopic dermatitis?

Swimming

    * Child can swim, you just have to watch that is not in the water too long.
    * Water should not be hot.
    * Use a special soap that does not irritate the skin.
    * Child's skin after bathing with a neutral lubricant grease.

Clothing

    * Avoid using woolen clothes.
    * Lining clothing should be cotton.
    * Avoid using clothes of coarse material and polyester.
    * Clothing should not be too small and too warm, since sweat may irritate the skin.

Leisure

    * Choose from sport, where children are not way too much, because the way irritate the skin.
    * Child can swim in the pools, where a lot of chlorine, which irritates the skin.
    * Avoid very extreme cold, extreme heat, prolonged sun exposure.
    * Enjoy the peace and relaxation.

Treatment of atopic dermatitis is a long time. Treatment with ultraviolet radiation (phototherapy) seldom helps.

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Did you know?

Only the first two years of a child's life is food allergy common cause of atopic dermatitis and should be eliminated from human allergen.
Contact dermatitis

The rash appears on the site, which comes into contact with an undesirable substance. This type of allergy caused by many allergens in a renewed contact with the skin. It is important that the skin has become sensitized to certain allergens earlier.

Signs of illness

    * Various rashes that itch very
    * Rash are strongly confined to the site of contact

Allergens are:

    * Metal compounds containing chromium and nickel
    * Various ointments containing antibiotics,
    * Perfumes, deodorants,
    * Detergents
    * Dyes hair
    * Leather
    * Rubber components.

Did you know?

Inflammation of the skin rashes caused by the harmful effects of substances on the skin, called toxic contact dermatitis. This is not an allergy, in which the immune system was activated by antibodies. Everyone can get sick, especially people with sensitive skin. Such substances, for example. soaps, solvents, herbal preparations, some types of grasses and ultraviolet radiation.