Eczema is a horrible condition.
Not only can it be unsightly but it can be painful too.
It's quite common but there are still may misconceptions about it.
Here are three things you probably didn't know about eczema.
Armed with this information, hopefully you'll be in a position to locate an eczema cure that can bring your eczema under control and eventually eliminate it altogether.

1. The word is derived from the Greek for 'boiling' because, in serious cases the skin can weep and small vesicles, or bubbles of fluid, appear.
   If you scratch them, they can become infected, usually by Staphylococcus aureus.
   If this happens, the infection appears as a crusty, weeping reddened lesion.
   Not nice at all and so, if you have a baby or child with eczema it's essential that they are actively discouraged, or even prevented, from scratching.
   You need an eczema cure as soon as possible in this situation.
   
2. Eczema is fundamentally an auto-immune condition.
   How and why it develops is still not fully understood but it is known that when certain lymphocytes (Th2-type CD4 if you must know) are activated by some sort of antigen, then it triggers an inflammation process in the skin cells themselves.
   Now, the antigen, can be either external or internal.
   That is they can arise as a result of certain foods and/or they can result from contact with certain chemicals.
   We live in a chemical society, we are surrounded by thousands of different types of chemical every day, things like plastics, detergents, oils, you name it.
   So it's not surprising that many people respond to their environment by producing the antigens that lead to eczema.
   Common allergen chemicals are: nickel, in jewelry and belt buckles, latex (in surgical gloves) some perfumes, often found in detergent, air fresheners and cosmetics), and there is a list as long as your arm.
   
3. Conventional medical opinion is that eczema cannot be cured, only that its symptoms can be suppressed.
   This is usually by the application of topical creams and lotions.
   In themselves these are just more chemicals so it easy to see why just piling more stuff onto our skin might not be just ineffective, it could actually make matters worse.
   

The holistic approach to eczema cure doesn't rely on the application of chemical creams and the like.
Natural eczema cures do what modern medicine so often fails to do, they take the whole body into account and treat the problem, not the symptoms.
Modern medicine has often been criticised for treating symptoms and conditions rather than the whole patient.