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atopic dermatitis
Sign in to saveAlso known as Allergic (intrinsic) eczema (disorder), Atopic dermatitis (disorder), Atopic dermatitis NOS (disorder), Atopic neurodermatitis (disorder), Besnier's prurigo, Besnier's prurigo (disorder), allergic dermatitis
type of inflammation of the skin
Key facts
- Other names
- Atopic eczema, infantile eczema, prurigo Besnier, allergic eczema, neurodermatitis
- Specialty
- Dermatology , Clinical Immunology and Allergy
- Symptoms
- Itchy , red, swollen, cracked skin
- Complications
- Skin infections , hay fever , asthma
- Usual onset
- Childhood
- Causes
- Unknown
- Risk factors
- Family history , living in a city, dry climate
- Diagnostic method
- Based on symptoms after ruling out other possible causes
- Differential diagnosis
- Contact dermatitis , psoriasis , seborrheic dermatitis
- Treatment
- Avoiding things that worsen the condition, daily bathing followed by moisturising cream , steroid creams for flares Humidifier
- Frequency
- ~20% at some time
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
43,560 papers- Molecular Mechanisms of Atopic Dermatitis Pathogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
- Update on atopic dermatitis.The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2025
- Unraveling the skin; a comprehensive review of atopic dermatitis, current understanding, and approaches.Frontiers in immunology · 2024
- Atopic Dermatitis: Pathophysiology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2017
- Differences between pediatric and adult atopic dermatitis.Pediatric dermatology · 2022
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- symptom or sign
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Atopic dermatitis.png
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- topic's main category
- Category:Atopic dermatitis
- Commons category
- Atopic dermatitis
- health specialty
- dermatology
- ICPC 2 ID
- S87
- drug or therapy used for treatment
- abrocitinib
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0001047
- short name
- AD
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- symptoms and signs
- dermatitis
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Encyclopedic overview
Atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as atopic eczema, is a long-term type of inflammation of the skin. Atopic dermatitis is also often called simply eczema, but "eczema" is also used to refer to dermatitis, the larger group of skin conditions. Atopic dermatitis results in itchy, red, swollen, and cracked skin. Clear fluid may come from the affected areas, which can thicken over time.
Atopic dermatitis affects about 20% of people at some point in their lives. It is more common in younger children. Females are affected slightly more often than males. Millions of people have outgrown the condition.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “atopic dermatitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.