What is Eczema?

Eczema is a term used for a group of skin conditions having several things in common: dryness, itching, inflammation and thickening of skin, and recurrence.

What Causes It?
Nobody knows exactly why some people are affected by these rashes and others with the same exposure aren’t.

Those with atopic dermatitis often have non-skin allergies (like hay fever and asthma) but their rashes aren’t caused by skin allergies.

On the other hand, those with contact dermatitis do have true skin allergies, but usually not other allergic problems like someone with atopic dermatitis.

Contact dermatitis occurs at all ages, whereas atopic dermatitis is most often a problem in kids. Hand dermatitis is caused by skin irritants such as detergents or chemicals.

Dry (chapped) skin occurs because of lack of water in the stratum corneum (see diagram).

If your skin surface doesn’t have enough oil, there’s more evaporation of water which contributes to the dryness.

Eczema health tips

Can massaging the skin on the face and neck cause damage?

There are two layers of skin; the dermis and the epidermis.
Then there is another layer under these, called the subcutaneous layer.
All these layers together are essentially the thickness of typing paper on the face.
This subcutaneous layer also contains fat.
It's often called the subcutaneous layer of fat.

If you pinch and roll this layer you can actually break it down, causing damage.

Instead, you can gently work the face through massage and exercise, keeping in mind that "gentle" is the key word here and something miraculous happens.

But first a little talk about how the muscles attach in the body and in the face.

Muscles do attach from bone to bone in the body, essentially and from the bone directly into the skin on the face.

In the western culture where we show a lot of emotions on our face and therefore habitually create expression, we tend to create lines on our faces.

We are not creating lines in the muscles, but rather we're creating lines in this subcutaneous layer.. the analogy being as if you were to "score" cardboard… we tend to "score" this subcutaneous layer and the lines are created as we repeat a particular expression over and over again.

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