Eczema is a disease
How do you look for the symptoms and features of Urticaria? Well, eczema or urticaria symptoms vary between different individuals. The most usual symptoms that one can see are itchy and dry skin, rashes on cheeks, legs and arms, and cracks behind the ears. It is important to note that itching is an important feature of urticaria, and scratching and rubbing the skin due to itching can make the skin inflammable.
Important features of urticaria:
Medically, urticaria presents itself as more acute or chronic acute or recurring. The affected person may suffer from generally sudden and acute skin eruption coupled with swelling and redness, acute itching, anxiety with burning sensation. Let us see some of the salient features of this skin disorder:
- The skin eruptions in urticaria are shaped irregularly or can be round in shape. Sometimes they take the form of vertical lines. They could also be seen single or multiple; sometimes they are occasional or sometimes appearing all at once. At times, these skin eruptions reappear and disappear in random sequence.
- Due to intense itching, the patient becomes impatient and restless when itching becomes uncontrollable. This could be most annoying for the patient. Sometimes this condition could lead to sleeplessness or disturbance at the workplace.
- A variant of urticaria, called Angioneurotic edema is the severe swelling of the skin at a cellular level down deep into the skin. When such a condition involves respiratory organs such as the larynx, it could result into suffocation and create an emergency. Sometimes the lips get swollen due to ANO.
- One of the most important symptoms of urticaria is itching and patients with atopic dermatitis become more sensitive to it as they require scratching for a longer time.
- Patients with urticaria develop red and scaling skin, while some others develop a sort of thick and leathery skin. Some people develop raised bumps all across the skin. When these papules are scratched, they open up and get infected.
- A person suffering from urticaria has a dry skin that is incapable of protection. His skin is more susceptible to recurring infections.
- Sometimes there is skin inflammation on and around the lips and palms; the eyelids turn dark due to inflammation or hay fever.
After diagnosing the symptoms and features of urticaria, one must go for proper treatment of the skin disorder. It is a known fact that the epidermis which is the outermost skin layer comprises of dry and flattened dead cells and the inner parts have living and moist cells. The outer layer of the skin acts as a barrier and protects the other layers of skin from harm caused by irritants. When this barrier is damaged, the irritants act more intensely on the skin.
