London: Red, bumpy, itchy skin can be irritating, painful, and embarrassing. Rashes can be caused by many things, including exposure to certain plants (poison ivy, for example), allergic reactions to a medication or food. Rashes can also be caused by an illness such as measles or chickenpox.
Eczema and hives, both of which are related to allergies, are two of the most common types of skin rashes. If your skin condition is the result of an allergy, an allergist can diagnose and treat your condition, so you can live life to the fullest.
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Eczema:
Eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, affects between 10 and 20 percent of children and 1 to 3 percent of adults. A common symptom of eczema is dry, red, irritated, and itchy skin. Sometimes, especially when infected, the skin may have small, fluid-filled bumps that ooze a clear or yellowish liquid. People with eczema often have a family history of allergies.
ITCHY skin, asthma, and allergies have previously been attributed to low vitamin D levels. But new research says this isn’t the case. Low vitamin D levels have been said to cause a number of health problems.
A recent study published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal found supplementing with the vitamin could reduce the risk of colds, flu, and other more dangerous respiratory infections like pneumonia.
Additionally, asthma, atopic dermatitis – an itchy inflammation of the skin – and an immune molecule linked to allergies, have all been blamed on not getting enough of the so-called “sunshine vitamin”. However, new research has found supplementing with vitamin D is unlikely to reduce the risk of these three conditions in adults or children.
In the study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, they found no difference between rates of asthma, atopic dermatitis, and allergies in people with and without low vitamin D levels. Dr. Despoina Manousaki, the lead author, said: “Our findings suggest that previous associations between low vitamin D and atopic disease could be due to spurious associations with other factors.
“Efforts to increase vitamin D levels will probably not result in decreased risk of adult and pediatric asthma, atopic dermatitis, or elevated IgE levels.” However another study of the same group of 100,000 participants, and using similar methods, found a link between low vitamin D levels and the neurological disorder multiple sclerosis (MS).
Dr. Brent Richards, who headed the study, said: “Our previous findings suggest that low vitamin D levels increase the risk for some inflammatory diseases like MS, but these effects do not translate to other inflammatory diseases like asthma and atopic dermatitis.”
Those in certain populations, such as white people of European descent and women, are at a higher risk of MS. The findings suggest people at risk should ensure they have adequate vitamin D levels, but that doing the same should not be expected to protect against asthma.
As of last year, the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition recommends everyone in the UK should supplement with a minimum of 10mg of vitamin D a day. express co UK
