Since you aren’t showing as much skin during winter months, you may find yourself neglecting it. But depending where you live, winter can expose your skin to harsh conditions like dry heat and bitter cold. If you find yourself with seasonal eczema, you’ll want to take extra care to nourish and protect your skin. Here is a video with some information on the typical symptoms of eczema, as well as some tips on how to help prevent or care for an outbreak.
Archive for the ‘eczema’ Category
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Caring for Skin with Eczema During Winter Months
Thursday, October 28, 2010
The Return of Myles McLellen
Warning: you may need a box of tissues on hand as you watch this. No sad endings here. Just a glimpse into the very touching, very real process many children go through even after they’ve survived cancer and its treatment. The social aspects of their lives totally change and it can be extremely tough. This young boy, Myles, reminds us how much everyone really needs to be loved and accepted – especially when their life path involves a difficulty like cancer.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Eczema 101 & Interesting Facts
The term eczema refers to a number of persistent skin conditions, including neurodermatitis, venous eczema, xerotic eczema, 
dermatitis herpetiformis, contact dermatitis, and the most common form, atopic dermatitis. While exact causes are not known, atopic dermatitis is generally thought to result from a combination of genetics and environmental factors.
Here are some interesting facts about eczema:
1. The most commonly asked question doctors get about eczema, after discussion of treatment options, is from patients wanting to know if it’s contagious. (The answer is: No.)
2. About 90% of eczema patients develop their first symptoms before the age of five.
3. Eczema now affects around 30% of the population, up from just 5% a generation ago. The likely cause? Environmental changes such as increased detergent use and factors like central heating and carpets that encourage dust mites.
4. Studies have shown that sodium laurel sulphate (SLS), which is a common detergent used in shower gels and other cosmetics, can increase permeability of healthy skin’s natural protective barrier and cause irritation. According to researchers, this effect would be even more pronounced in eczema patients.
5. Skin that is red and inflamed is not necessarily eczema. Generally speaking, an itch must be present to indicate an eczema condition.
6. People who have eczema have the presence of certain genes that pre-dispose them to the condition.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Coping with Eczema in College
Here’s a sweet, intimate clip about a college student’s experience with eczema. What is most sweet about it perhaps is all of the comments this clip garnered from other young people struggling with eczema and searching for eczema cures.
One of the challenges about eczema is that every case seems to be unique. What works for one person’s skin may not work for someone else’s. When a successful eczema cream is found, it may not keep working forever. People sometimes need to use a few different eczema creams on rotation. Plus, skin and digestive allergies can play a big role. One thing that we’ve found to be true for almost all of our customers who have found Jeans Cream to be a successful eczema cream, is that they have committed to applying it regularly and consistently, rather than just trying it once and hoping for an overnight miracle. We also notice that those who have the best success healing their eczema are those who use the cream in conjunction with appropriate diet and lifestyle adjustments.
