Peter Wallace

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The Emotional Impact of Eczema Scars

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Peter Wallace, (2018, March 20). The Emotional Impact of Eczema Scars. Psychreg on General. https://www.psychreg.org/emotional-impact-eczema-scars/
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A flawless skin indicates beauty in everybody, where many people see blemish skin as a detriment and work hard to perfect their skin. A blemished skin may disadvantage you like when seeking for a job since the first perception is your beauty appearance. The state of having scars is repulsive, and many are suffering socially and tend to isolate themselves to avoid shame.

Eczema is an unpredictable disease that can affect both young and older people without discriminating age. It can affect any part of the skin, although it’s prevalent on hands, genitals, within elbows, scalp, and sometimes after the knees. It causes itchy, sore skin, and dry skin where it can aggregate fungal, bacterial, and virus infection when you scratch the surface.

You can treat this illness by applying natural moisturiser after taking a bath or on top of topical steroids once they absorb in the skin. You can also use some skincare products made of alkaline like Sond creams to reduce the sensitivity of your skin. Sond skincare are different varieties of creams where you can make your selection depending on your skin condition. Both the natural and organic skincare products function the same, thus keeping your skin cruelty-free.

Some GMOs. Food causes allergic conditions that may cause skin itching, which when you scratch them, you end up letting bacteria into your skin hence the infection. However, food and drug administration are yet to identify the linkage between skin irritation and GMOs. Foods. Usage of organic eczema care non-GMOs. Creams will relieve itching and skin irritation, thus calming your skin.

Here are the impacts of the scars:

Low self-esteem

Severe signs like cracking skin with redness may make you start fearing meeting people and initiate low self-esteem feeling where you don’t accept your condition. Research shows that many people with skin disease mind more on the people’s speeches when they see them. Besides, it’s so hard to control scratching feeling, especially when in public; thus, you may tend to isolate yourself. The outbreak may also undervalue all the efforts you do on skincare to cope with the outstanding fashion on skin treatments.

Embarrassment on using medication

While maintaining your skin health, some treatments like Sond skincare and other steroid ointments may bring embarrassments. Some have bad smells and conspicuous look when you apply them thus drawing awareness to people around you. Also, their medication may require a regular application which may be frustrating to move around with them and even applying them. Unfortunately, some drugs may fail to get rid of eczema scars and also cause irritation. 

Fear of seeing medical professionals

When you realise the problem with your skin, it’s disturbing to meet medical professionals. It becomes more frustrating when you have to go for frequent check-ups, and the situation isn’t improving. The medical commitment is disgusting, especially when you miss an appointment and all the blame is on you, and the health specialist doesn’t seem to understand your situation. Besides, some of them are rude and intimidating where their guide speeches may render the patient uneasy, leading to low self-esteem.

Change of meals and other activities that may trigger the disease

A patient under medication has to avoid triggers that increase the effectiveness of the disease, although it may sound cruel. The triggers are different with diverse effects from one patient to another, meaning that you have to adhere to your clinical officer tips to heal the situation. Although it is challenging to distinguish which factor triggers your illness, the medical guide will help you by examining your lifestyle and offer useful directives.

Changing your lifestyle fashion to cope with the situation involves avoiding triggers like stress, certain foods, specific drinks, specific bathing, cosmetics and more. Although the illness may bring about pressure, it’s advisable to control it and accept yourself since excessive stress increases the irritation. You also have to avoid inorganic skin cares and begin to use organic skincare products and natural moisturiser, which may be expensive but worthy using.

An eczematic patient has to change to vegetarian to avoid the triggering effect of meat. Becoming a vegan is tricky since your friends may fail to understand you and demand reason for the change. Besides, being a vegetarian will lower your pride since you are used to enjoying the sweatiness of meaty products. Moreover, you have to avoid a hot climate since the heat will make you sweet thus your skin will start irritating.

Therefore, using Sond skin and living a vegan life are the standard methods of controlling eczema infections amongst others to maintain your beauty. However, you need to accept your condition and move out to seek medication from professionals and adhere to the medication tips, thus you will be cruelty-free.

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Peter Wallace has been an advocate for mental health awareness for years. He holds a master’s degree in counselling from the University of  Edinburgh.


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