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.