Atopic dermatitis

Dermatitis or atopic eczema is dermatitis, inflammation of the skin, which is characterized by skin lesions with erythema flaking, blistering, sweating, cracks, injury scraping and thickened areas (Lichenification), almost always with itching. These lesions appear at different stages in the form of plaques that can appear depending on the age in the face, extremities of the flexure, or in different areas of the body, even in some patients over the entire length of the skin (Erythroderma). 

The atopic dermatitis is presented in different forms and distribution depending on the patient's age.

In the infant before the first birthday of eczema usually appear injuries to the head (milk crust), in face respecting eyes, nose and mouth, or extended by the skin around the body. In this form of onset is usually a very striking and intense box but his prognosis is very good disappearing before the age of 5.

In children of school age injuries eczema predominate in the flexure of limbs in the neck and in the area behind the ears, sometimes with eczema lesions on the lips and eyelids.

 In adults, there are two ways, one is due to the persistence of eczema child's school with predominantly flexural injuries, and one adult onset lesions scattered, often erythroderma with great affection of the face and neck and that tends to its chronic .