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Beyond Dry Skin: How Eczema Impacts Emotional Well-Being
Adults living with this common skin condition, and its associated symptoms including itch, are more likely to have a negative emotional impact, including feelings of anxiety and depression.¹ Ponomariova MariaGetty Images
For Karina Santana, now 27, eczema (also known as atopic dermatitis or atopic eczema) has been a part of her life since she was 8 or 9 years old when she first noticed the patches of dry skin on her arms. By the time she was a teenager, it had spread to her eyelids and around her mouth, impacting more than just her skin as she started to get bullied about it in school. “Other kids would make fun of my face and just make really unnecessary comments,” Santana says. “It brought down my self-esteem.”
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Pills, creams, and invasive treatments aren’t the only answer to health problems. Whether you’re dealing with depression or skin disorders, migraines or other chronic pain, sometimes you just need to turn to the light. Depending on the condition, there may be something along the colorful spectrum of light therapy to alleviate your symptoms and give you relief.
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Jan 15, 2021
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Eczema is a common but annoying disease â in no small part due to its unpredictability.
Family Features More than 30 million Americans, including nearly 10 million children, have eczema, the umbrella term for a group of noncontagious, inflammatory and painful skin conditions marked by an itchy, rash-like appearance. Because one of the most challenging aspects of eczema can be its unpredictability, the National Eczema Association (NEA), designed an app to help people and parents easily track what’s important and make sense of it.
The app, called EczemaWise, aims to revolutionize how people living with the condition manage it with a faster, more efficient tracking system that helps uncover trends and makes preparing for doctors’ appointments easier.