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Eczema Symptoms and Eczema Causes

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Eczema Symptoms

Before your search for cures for eczema, here are some eczema symptoms to see if you may have it. There are numerous symptoms of eczema but the first one that you will notice is that your skin is itchy. Mine was always so itchy that I thought the feeling would never go away. The itching will occur before you see a rash. When the rash does come most of the time is is on the hands, feet, knees or face. Eczema is red, thickened, dry patch of skin that is sometimes scaly.

Eczema Causes

Doctors unfortunately do not know why eczema occurs. However, they do know that 10 percent of the population has the genes to produce eczema but only about 3 percent actually has eczema occur. Doctors believe eczema is linked to an overactive response produced by the body’s immune system. The immune system sends out a message to the body and starts producing cells too rapidly and the dead skin cells do not fall off of the body. When the skin cells do not drop off, that is where the rash develops. When I learned that I thought about how to treat eczema. I thought that there must be a way to use a natural eczema treatment to tweak my immune system to change it back to how it was and find eczema relief.

A Youtube Video about eczema: