Word: eczema
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...More than 75% of children who develop eczema--a skin condition that usually erupts around the mouth, on the inside of the elbow or behind the knee--also suffer an allergic reaction to food, mold or other environmental triggers. The foods that most commonly cause reactions are eggs, milk and peanuts...
...Researchers find that 95% of kids who develop ALLERGIES TO NUTS--a potentially life-threatening problem--suffer from asthma, eczema or hay fever. They warn children with any of these problems to lay off peanut butter and other nutty foods...
...cream containing the drug doxepin has been shown to alleviate the often severe itching associated with eczema...
...always sick. "The doctor more or less said that she was just born with a screwed-up immune system," says Joanne. She had a bodywide eczema starting in infancy, rheumatic fever and meningitis in childhood, a progressive eye ailment in her later years...
...sisters remember the eczema. "I'd wake up in the middle of the night and hear her scratching herself with a comb or brush," says Nan. "I don't think she ever slept the night through." When Sue was 12, a malignant tumor appeared on her forehead; doctors were able to remove it, but more than 10 operations were needed to rebuild her eyebrow and part of her eyelid. "I just remember, she always had a big bandage around her head," says Mary...