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.

This feat will probably sound more difficult than it really is. One of the ways that you will know that you are doing these exercises correctly is that you will be able to carry on a conversation while you are exercising at 170% of your resting heart rate. If you can not breathe properly and carry on a conversation you are exercising too heavily. In order for this type of exercise to work to help stasis dermatitis, it can not be too strenuous.

Just make sure that you can still talk while you are working out and you should be alright. The exercise you want to use are walking, or cycling. Swimming is also good aerobic exercise, but the water might dehydrate and damage your skin if you are in it for over 20 minutes.

You will want to exercise at this intensity for a duration of 30 - 45 consecutive minutes, for a frequency of 5 times per week. This means that you are being asked to adopt a more active lifestyle and it is hoped that the activity will be enough to cause eczema to go away.

One of the ways that the increased heart rate will help you is with swelling in the lower legs. There are "locks" in the blood vessels that prevent the backflow of blood once it enters the veins taking the blood back to the heart. As people age, these locks can lose some of their efficiency, and begin to leak. When blood vessels in the lower legs leak, any excess blood is able to pool in the lower legs and causes swelling and tightness in those areas. Exercise is able to help with this by putting things in motion so that while the locks may not be completely repaired, the extra speed with which things are moving will help to take some of the excess material away from the area, so that the area can be more relaxed.

You should be aware though that stasis dermatitis, also called gravitational dermatitis can sometimes be a challenge to solve, and that when you do exercise and you see improvements in the area you should not rest on what has been accomplished. The gains that were achieved can be also very easily lost; again what you are aiming at is a change in lifestyle that will ultimately affect your condition's ability to affect you.

Eczema is a fairly common problem among people. Of all skin disorders eczema accounts for about 30% of all problems. Eczema is not one kind of disease, but a range of diseases that are characterized as being a result of a skin inflammation. This means that eczema will have different looks and treatments. One thing that remains common in all eczema's is the aggravating itch that you have to get rid of. Another thing that is known about eczema is that the amount of people with the condition has been increasing over the past 15 years. This article talks about eczema and one of the reasons why it may be increasing. There are more than one, but we talk of only one.

As said before eczema is one of the most common skin problems. It comprises 30% of all skin conditions. Eczema is also responsible for being the cause of hospitalizations in some people. When assigning a rate to the number of hospitalizations enforced by eczema we are able to determine that roughly 20% of all hospitalizations in dermatology or skin medicine cases are because of eczema.

It is also known that 20% of children have eczema, while 5% of the adult population has the immune and skin condition. The huge change in the amount of children versus adults with the condition eczema is because the condition is sometimes outgrown at the various stages of life. Around 1 year old some babies stop having eczema, then another group will outgrow the condition by age 2; another group will be freed around age 5, another at the beginning of puberty, another at the end of puberty, and others not at all. These people will just have to continue treatments to make sure that the eczema that lives in them remains sedentary and unlikely to strike. They will have to stay away from eczema triggers.

Sometimes a person gets eczema in their adult years, but this is somewhat rare as most people with eczema experience symptoms from the disease from the time they are babies.

It is considered that the increase in eczema may have something to do with an increase in cleaning chemicals doing two things. In one instance, they clean the environments so much that the indoor environment is too sterile and getting sick when you go outside becomes that much easier.

It is also thought that the chemicals themselves are able to instigate eczema flare ups. To counteract this, you can consider using HEPA filtered air filters to clean airborne chemicals from the environments that you will be in most.

When you have eczema, you need to pay extra attention to ensuring that your skin remains moist. For a person who does not have eczema, it may be alright for them to not treat their dry skin. Their bodies may be able to help them with this. However, when you have eczema your body is not assisting you in the way it should. This means that you will have to assist your body in keeping your dry skin moist.

Will drinking water help?

If you drink your necessary 64 plus ounces of fluid every day you should be well hydrated. Drinking more water than this is unlikely to help you significantly. The problem is better treated using different means.

Direct sunlight

When correcting dry skin you need to avoid coming into contact with direct sunlight. Sun burn will further dry out and damage your skin.

If you have a darker complexion it is even that much more important that you avoid getting sunburned.

Scratching is not helpful

Do not scratch dry skin. Scratching leads to itching, and broken skin. When the skin is broken, it can become infected more readily.

Moisturizers are necessary

When choosing a moisturizer, choose a heavier one that contains no lanolin. Lanolin is a major skin irritant.

You should also choose a heavier moisturizer rather than a light one. You will want to use a heavier moisturizer so that you will have to apply it less frequently. More frequent administrations of moisturizer will have the effect of thinning out the skin.

Short showers

To help overcome the dry skin that accompanies eczema it is a good preventative treatment to make baths and showers short. Unless you are taking a bath treatment for the purpose of rejuvenating your skin you should keep your bath time to less than 5 minutes.
When you are using an eczema treatment in the form of a bath, the bath should not last longer than 18 - 20 minutes.

Vitamins

Vitamins A, B-complex, and E are the vitamins that you will need to make sure that you have no deficiencies of.

Vitamin E may even be used as an emollient on the rougher places of the body such as the knees, elbows and feet.

Steroids

Steroids are effective at relieving dryness, but they can also cause skin thinning when used incorrectly. When used according to instruction steroids can be safe for use, but incorrect use causes problems.

In most cases it has been shown that incorrect use has been caused by people being fearful of using too much of the medicine. They use too little, and it takes too long for the body to respond.

Phototherapy

Phototherapy should be used as a last resort as a dry skin treatment. It should only be used when all other treatments have failed.

Phototherapy involves the process of exposing the skin to ultra violet light rays. It is a treatment that is loaded with the possibilities of complications and side effects.