Eczema recurring? See if you have done this!

Eczema is a relatively common skin disease, and when the condition is more serious, the patient may develop skin symptoms such as erythema and blisters. At this time, timely treatment is necessary, otherwise the skin is prone to ulceration and infection. In clinical practice, why is eczema always prone to recurrence? Let's take a look at the analysis of experts.

1. Viral infection

One of the causes of eczema is viral infection. After viral infection occurs, there are neutralizing antibodies and complement-binding antibodies in the serum, which can remove the virus, control the spread of the virus throughout the body, and have a certain limiting effect on the course of the disease, but they cannot remove the long-term latent virus or prevent recurrence. Therefore, there is no effective antiviral drug that can control the recurrence of eczema.

2. Environmental factors cause eczema

Eczema is a rash caused by an allergic reaction to internal and external factors. It basically occurs in a specific group of people, but it is often affected by long-term health conditions and environmental conditions. Patients will be unable to tolerate many harmless stimuli in life and work. For example, eating certain foods may aggravate the occurrence of eczema.

Since the causes of eczema are very complex, even if the cause is found, it is still difficult to treat. For example, allergies to mites, pollen, or fungal spores are almost impossible to remove because these substances often float in the air, so the disease often recurs clinically.

Why does eczema recur?

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the main pathogenic mechanism of eczema is heart fire and spleen dampness. It can be caused by irritability, endogenous heart fire leading to blood heat, or by improper diet or excessive consumption of fishy and wind-inducing foods, which damage the spleen and stomach, causing the spleen to lose its healthy function and dampness to be generated from the inside. Dampness and heat combine to affect the spleen, and the two evils fight each other and overflow into the skin. Because the "dampness" is heavy, turbid and sticky, the disease recurs and is prolonged and not healed.