A chronic inflammatory genetically determined disease of the skin marked by increased ability to form reagin (IgE), with increased susceptibility to allergic rhinitis and asthma, and hereditary disposition to a lowered threshold for pruritus. It is manifested by lichenification, excoriation, and crusting, mainly on the flexural surfaces of the elbow and knee. In infants it is known as infantile eczema.
    

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Atopic dermatitis / Georg Rajka.

From play to school / National Eczema Society.

Your child with eczema / Colin Holden and members of the Medical Advisory Panel of the NES.

Eczema and diet / David Atherton and Rosemary Lever.

Les dermites allergiques du visage de cause externe /  / par Edwin Sidi ; préface du Pierre Blamoutier.

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Dermatitis, Atopic

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Atopic dermatitis / Georg Rajka.

From play to school / National Eczema Society.

Your child with eczema / Colin Holden and members of the Medical Advisory Panel of the NES.

Eczema and diet / David Atherton and Rosemary Lever.

Les dermites allergiques du visage de cause externe / / par Edwin Sidi ; préface du Pierre Blamoutier.