what treatments are there for severe seborrhoeic eczema, apart from steroid creams?
Q:Can you please tell me what treatments there are for severe seborrhoeic eczema, apart from steroid creams? I have this condition over a large area of my face. T. L, Manchester. A:We asked panel member Dr Jean Monro, founder of the Breakspear Hospital for Allergy and Environmental Medicine, and also Dr Keith Mumby, who wrote The Allergy Handbook.Both pointed out that there are different sorts of eczema, which shows up as inflamed, red, sometimes weepy eruptions on the skin. Seborrhoeic eczema is often hormonally related. Skin that tends to be oily, and becomes worse cyclically, in the case of women, can be prone to this trouble. There is no one cause of eczema, just as there isn’t one cause of other allergies. In young children, sometimes the problem is introducing food too early, particularly the common offenders wheat, dairy, eggs and corn. In some cases the problem is food, in others, pollutants, which are deposited in body fat and secreted in the seborrhoeic glands hence the name
