The majority of people affected by stasis dermatitis are over the age of 40 years old. This may cause some difficulties for some of you when I tell you one of your better choices of treatment. However, for the majority of people this may just be a welcomed treatment.

Stasis dermatitis is a common form of eczema that affects in the majority of cases the lower legs of the person involved: One of its causes being poor blood circulation. When you are at rest and you have stasis dermatitis, you are advised that you should elevate your legs so that in order for the blood to get to your heart, it has to flow in a downward direction. That should not be a problem.

What may be a problem though for some is exercise. Exercise is thought to be one of the best treatments for this type of eczema. You will still have to be careful about how you let yourself heat up and the effect that it will have on your eczema. With this in mind, I explain to you how you can exercise safely; how you can exercise in the way that helps you and does not hurt you.

You will want to get aerobic exercise. The way you will do that is measure your heart beats per minute while you are resting. You will figure out what 170% of that number is and that is the rate you will want to exercise at.

For example; you take the count and find that when you are at rest, your heart beats 60 times in one minute. What you will then want to do is math. If 60 is 100% of your resting heart beats, then to find 170% of your resting heart beat rate you will multiply 60 x 170 = 10,200. You then divide 10,200 by 100, which gives you a target heart of 102 beats per minute when you are exercising.

No matter what your resting heart rate is, you can use this formula to get a target heart rate to work out at. All you will need to do is substitute your resting heart rate number for the 60 in our example and do the math.