Exudative diathesis: treatment and prevention

Many children at the earliest age have various allergic reactions. Most often there is exudative diathesis, which occurs in due to the sensitivity of the infant's skin to external stimuli.

As a rule, exudative diathesis in children manifests itself in the first months of life, and especially often - immediately after birth. There are such allergic reactions mainly from foods eaten by a nursing mother. That is why pediatricians so insist on the observance of a woman's diet during lactation. The factors that cause exudative diathesis can be climatic conditions, chemical and mechanical irritants, and this skin disease can occur as a reaction to the vaccination.

The main symptoms that indicate exudative diathesis include redness on the cheeks, roughness and peeling of the skin. After some time, on the staining site, wet eczema may appear with an unpleasant itch. A child with this disease on the mucous membranes often enough observed inflammatory processes. Therefore, they have a runny nose, conjunctivitis, blepharitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, recurrent bronchitis.

The very first signs of the development of this form of diathesis is the appearance of sebaceous seborrheic scales on the head of the child around the fontanel. Such formation has the property to spread rapidly enough in other parts of the body and develop, as a result of which the appearance of eczema is observed in children at such an early age.

The behavior of children with this disease also has its own characteristics: they are either all the time irritable, loud and capricious, or calm, sluggish and inactive. Zolotuch, or exudative diathesis, is treatable very difficult and not always successful, even despite modern methods of determining the allergen. It does not help even that at present many children's polyclinics are equipped with special equipment, and in any pharmacy you can buy a medicine designed to eliminate this problem.

Diathesis is first and foremost a manifestation of the internal state of the body, so treatment should not take place outside, but from within. Traditional medicine has in its arsenal many methods of treatment of exudative diathesis.

Folk methods against exudative diathesis:

1. It is considered effective to use the inside of a string. To do this, take half a liter of boiled water 20 g of grass, then insisted for 12 hours.
2. For the treatment of diathesis use this recipe: take 5 grams of rhizomes elecampane, gentian leaves and yarrow, pour 0.5 liters of water, boil for 10 minutes. The resulting broth insists half an hour and take one spoon three times a day. Treatment lasts from 1 to 2 months.
3. Since ancient times, people use fir oil. Today, add to it a baby cream or olive oil with vitamin C and lubricate skin areas affected by exudative diathesis.
4. Effective in the treatment of the disease and infusion of dandelion, which is poured with boiling water and insists no more than 2 hours. Drink half an hour before meals a fourth of the glass three times a day.
5. When diathesis occurs, it is very useful to take herbal baths: they have a soothing, anti-inflammatory, bactericidal effect on the child's inflamed skin. The temperature of the water for the adoption of procedures should be moderately warm.

It is very important at an early age to prevent the occurrence of diathesis, which is primarily the organization of proper nutrition for children. Parents should also give up those products that can become allergens for a child, because children with a ban on certain foods can develop a sense of inferiority.