Auricle eczema

Description:

Eczema is a damage of an auricle and outside acoustical pass which can have acute or chronic character. It arises as a result of irritation of skin allocations from an ear, an allergy to medicines, influence of iodide drugs or production dust, generally coal and cement.

Auricle eczema reasons:

Eczema arises and develops at irritation of skin of acoustical pass and an auricle:

allocations from an ear which are observed at acute or chronic average otitis of purulent character;
iodide drugs;
at long influence of cement and coal dust.

The allergic form of eczema arises at intolerance of certain medicines, and also against the background of development of diabetes and some disturbances in a metabolism. At children emergence of eczema is promoted by rickets, diathesis, and in certain cases tuberculosis. Sometimes eczema arises after an injury when weakening of local immune system of an organism is observed.

Eczema can have the acute or chronic forms. At acute eczema in process it is involved only skin blankets. If process became chronic, then skin of acoustical pass and an auricle becomes thicker, and the gleam is narrowed, the entrance to outside acoustical pass has cracks.

At children the becoming wet eczema form meets more often, and at adults happens as becoming wet, and dry at which the peeling of skin epidermis is observed.

Auricle eczema symptoms:

In the beginning development of a disease the hyperemia (reddening) and a thickening of skin of a sink of an ear and outside acoustical pass which occurs due to infiltration is observed. Then there is a narrowing of acoustical pass. Then in ears there is a constant itch and as a result of combing there are grazes, and then small vials of serous liquid when which opening it is observed moknut are formed and grayish-yellow crusts appear.
If there is an accession of consecutive infection, then limited or diffusion outside otitis develops. When the patient has serious general diseases, eczema often passes into a chronic form, and process gets into deeper layers of an integument. A frequent recurrence is characteristic of this disease.

Diagnosis:

Considering data of the anamnesis and such characteristic displays of a disease as moknuty, the redness, a thickening of skin, a crust or a peeling, diagnosing of a disease of difficulties does not cause. The acute form of eczema needs to be differentiated from an erysipelatous inflammation of an outside ear and fungal outside otitis. At an erysipelatous inflammation the itch is absent, borders of an inflammation are accurately outlined, and the palpation of the struck area is sharply painful. At fungal process the diagnosis is made after carrying out mycologic researches.

Treatment of eczema of an auricle:

The struck areas wipe with alcohol or ether, powder talc, or a zinc oxide, irrigate skin with Oxycortum aerosol, and at a peeling apply гекортон, целистодерм with Garamycinum.
Removal of crusts carry out only after wetting them by vegetable oil or vaseline. After such procedure impose oxytetracycline or prednizolonovy ointment. Except drug treatment appoint training by ultraviolet (Ural federal district), laser therapy sessions, ultrasonic medicinal irrigation, UVCh.
Forecast for recovery favorable.