You will find tips and advice to answer the many questions of young adults when building their life together, and considering becoming parents. Phases potentially impacted when a chronic skin disease appears on a daily basis. Many patients indeed fear “to transmit the disease, to aggravate it with pregnancy, not to be good parents, or not to be up to par with their spouse!” “, relays the French Association of Eczema.
A genetic origin
Eczema affects 2.5 million patients in France of all ages. Atopic eczema (dermatitis) is characterized by “intense itching, red, thick, lichenified plaques, sometimes with isolated prurigo papules, acute, vesicular or oozing inflammatory outbreaks which may be complicated by infections and metabolic disorders “.
This non-contagious disease can affect different parts of the body, impacting the quality of life (sleep, morale, physical activities, social relations, etc.). The origin of atopic dermatitis? This dermatological disease is “caused by a genetic anomaly of the skin barrier which is responsible for the excessive dryness and the permeability of the skin to all external aggressions (pollen, dust, mites…)”.
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