Some children from infancy suffer from a constant rash, runny nose, then from bronchial asthma and various other allergic diseases, and parents provide them with excellent and proper nutrition, as well as quality care. When other children eat everything in a row, they are not afraid of contacts with dust, as well as with other volatile substances and even have no idea that there are such diseases and problems. Why does it happen all the same?
Sometimes children are born with a predisposition to allergies, which sometimes accompanies a person throughout his life. This predisposition is also called atopy. In infancy - this is atopic dermatitis, it was previously called exudative diathesis.
Diathesis is a chronic skin disease of an inflammatory nature, which is based on heredity. Atopy is possible to allergens such as dust, any food, bacteria, drugs, as well as a variety of viruses, etc.
Diathesis can lead to very serious diseases, such as bronchial asthma, allergic rhinitis. The transition of diathesis into a more complex disease is called an atopic march. An allergic triad is possible - this is when all forms of allergy occur simultaneously.
Treatment of diathesis in children and the course of the disease
The disease can begin in children even from the first days of life. The course of the disease is divided into three stages - the infant stage, the childhood and adolescent stages, and the adult stage. All stages of this disease occur with calm intervals and with exacerbations. And although it is believed that most of the diathesis in the majority passes to the teenage period, it still happens that in some people the diathesis remains during all life.
Treatment of diathesis in children and the course of the disease. Infant stage.
This disease in a baby can begin from the first months of life and lasts up to two years of age. Diathesis may be wet or dry.
With weeping diathesis, severe itching, swelling of the skin and a rash in the form of vesicles appear, which burst over time, forming moist areas that are covered with crusts. Diathesis most often acts on the face, lower and upper extremities, as well as on the buttocks. Sometimes an infection can get and pustules will be added to all the listed manifestations.
With dry diathesis, redness, swelling, an itchy rash that forms when combing the crust, as well as ulcers appear.
Perhaps a combination of both forms of diathesis or the transition of one form to another.
Treatment of diathesis in children and the course of the disease. Children stage
This is a stage of age from 2 to 10 years. Signs of diathesis in children - swelling appears on the skin in the area of natural folds, redness, itchy small rash and peeling. Most often, the foci are located symmetrically.
Treatment of diathesis in children and the course of the disease. Teenage or adult stage.
In the adult stage, this disease is called neurodermatitis. At the time of exacerbation, itching appears, and the skin becomes denser and drier, with a pronounced pattern, as well as with deep furrows - this is the so-called lichenization. Most often appears on the elbows, neck, hips and perineum.
Diathesis treatment in children
Treatment of this disease in children should be comprehensive, because it is a disease of the whole organism. In the treatment of diathesis, the main task is to prevent exacerbation. When allergens are identified in food, they should be excluded from the diet as much as possible. You need to clean daily, use an air purifier, ventilate the apartment, do not keep pets and plants and annually replace the child with the pillow on which he sleeps.
Treatment of diathesis in children should take place under the supervision of a doctor. He will prescribe an ointment for diathesis for children, which will need to be applied to previously cleansed skin.
It should be remembered that childhood diathesis is a hereditary disease, but if you follow the doctor’s recommendations, you can avoid allergies.