nummular eczema

Nummular eczema is usually a chronic condition.

Nummular eczema can also be worsened by stress and excessive caffeine, which dehydrates the body and thus the skin.

Sulzberger-Garbe syndrome (also known as "Oid-oid disease") is a cutaneous condition, a type of therapy resistant nummular eczema.

Other rashes can look like ringworm, including spider bites, nummular eczema, and Lyme disease, a more serious infection that produces a bull's-eye shaped rash.

Dr. Kirshbaum believes chronic tension is the direct cause of nummular eczema, characterized by coin-shaped dry, scaly lesions on the backs of the hands and feet or on the forearms or legs.

Nummular eczema (nummular dermatitis) is characterized by coin-shaped patches of irritated skin, most commonly located on the arms, back, buttocks, and lower legs, that may be crusted, scaling, and extremely itchy.

Nutritional deficiency eczema is a pattern of eczema with localized, thickened, scaling patches that have some characteristics of nummular eczema, seborrheic dermatitis, and neurodermatitis that may be seen in alcoholics.

Strong steroids are used for psoriasis, lichen planus, discoid lupus, chapped feet, lichen simplex chronicus, severe poison ivy exposure, alopecia areata, nummular eczema, and severe atopic dermatitis in adults.

There are no specific tests that can be performed to test for EAC; tests should be performed to rule out other possible diseases such as: pityriasis rosea, tinea corporis, psoriasis, nummular eczema, atopic dermatitis, drug reaction, erythema migrans and other rashes.