Patient : Female, 47 years old
Date : 3rd April 2023, First Visit
Concern : Dermatitis lasting for 2 months, worsen in past 3 days
Patient caught in an injury 2 months ago after touching the hot pan while cooking, it got worse, inflamed and became dermatitis problem. Worsen in these 3 days and the inflammation started to grow around upper part of elbow, some pus flowed out too.
During 2020, she had swollen lip after taking pork and cured after a treatment with us. Her skin condition is good in the past 3 years.
If consumed certain seafood mistakenly, she felt itchy and skin eczema appeared, sometime the skin got swollen or pus flowing out.
The food that troubled her including anchovies, peanuts and oyster sauce which caused severe dermatitis at the bend of elbow. Period on time.
Handling: blood-letting therapy and prescribed some herbal medicine
2023Second visit on 10.04.2023:
The little finger inflammation has started to recover. However, she went out for lunch with family and found out the dermatitis issue worsen again. Some pus flowing out around right arm near the elbow.
Handling: Continued with the herbal medication for her.
2023Third visit on 17.04.2023:
Dermatitis problem on left little finger still persist. Right arm around elbow area having pus.
Handling: Herbal medication and also herbal ointment.
2023Fourth visit on 28.04.2023:
During the fourth visit, we observed the dermatitis spot at the little finger has recovered gradually.
we observed the dermatitis spot at the little finger has recovered gradually.
The reddish colour wound changed into lighter colour.
Handling: Drink barley or rice bean a few times in a week and also apply “San Huang Gao”.
Analysis of the study case:
Patient’s little finger caught in an injury after accidentally touch the hot pan while cooking 2 months ago then inflamed. Skin issue keep getting worse so that is why the patient came and sought us for consultation. As studied, the patient has always been sensitive to variety of food. Three years back, she had encountered swollen lip issue due to taking pork and had been recovered successfully after some treatments. Her skin problem is good thus far. If she consumed certain seafood mistakenly, she felt itchiness and skin eczema spot appeared, sometime got swollen or pus flowing out. The food which were troubling her included anchovies, peanuts and oyster sauce, which caused severe dermatitis at the bend of elbow. She found that even when she went out for a meal with family, her dermatitis problem got worse quickly.
Base on the condition of skin issue, we could determine that the problem was related to the body category of “dampness and heaty”. The energy of stomach was weak and thus slowing down the process of water distribution in the body, hence water kept on top layer of the skin, causing the occurrence of eczema. Besides patient have weak bowel movement, and also symtom of constipation .People who has constipation will have heat kept inside the body, vaporized to the skin layer and causing dermatitis such as pus flowing or eczema.
During the third visit, patient mentioned her skin issue had been on and off. The patient followed our recommendations to drink barley or adzuki bean soup to clear the ‘dampness’ from the body. Besides, we provided the skin ointment to apply on her wound. As a result, we started to see much improvement at the fourth visit as we could see the scope of the wound reduced and no more pus flowing.
Tips in taking care of Eczema Skin problem:
1. Diet Habitual.
We suggest a balancing diet habitual where cooling food and heaty fool equally balanced. For example, when we fry vegetables, we mix them with gingers. For skin problem, we can take some ingredients like barley drink, adzuki bean soup, green bean soup etc. to clear the ‘dampness’ in the body. Avoid fried food and spicy food.
2. Regular exercise.
Expose to more sunshine to gain some sweat. If one hardly sweat, the heats kept underneath the skin layer will cause quicker blood circulation, then we saw some redness or swollen spot appearing on top of the skin layer gradually.
3. Bowel movement Habitual.
Ensure daily bowel movement. It helps reduce toxic inside blood vessel; hence skin eczema problem will have a speedy recovery.
4. Actively looking for remedy at the earlier stage.
When necessary, one who has eczema issue should consume herbal medication and apply skin ointment at the earlier stage.
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