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Eczema in Early Childhood may Cause Psychological Problems

by Savitha on February 13, 2010 at 9:49 AM Child Health News

A new study has identified a connection between eczema in early childhood and psychological problems in children at ten years of age.

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Eczema is a non-infectious skin disease characterized by scaling itchy skin rashes. It is the most common skin disease in children and adolescents. Children who suffer from eczema are known to have an increased predisposition for hay fever and allergic asthma. Eczema symptoms are accompanied by a broad spectrum of secondary symptoms, such as sleep disorders.

The prospective birth cohort study was done by scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum M|nchen and colleagues of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitdt (LMU), Technische Universitdt M|nchen (TUM) and Marien-Hospital in Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The research, which followed 5,991 children born between 1995 and 1998, has appeared in the current issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 125 (2010); 404-410.

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Jochen Schmitt of Dresden University Hospital, Dr. Christian Apfelbacher (Heidelberg University Hospital) and Dr. Joachim Heinrich of the Institute of Epidemiology of Helmholtz Zentrum M|nchen, found that children who suffered from eczema during the first two years of life were more likely to demonstrate psychological abnormalities, in particular emotional problems, at ten years of age than children of the same age who had not suffered from the disease.

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