Eczema, Birth Order, and Infection

Original Contribution Eczema, Birth Order, and Infection

The association between infections occurring in the first 2 years of life and development of eczema was investigated in 1,782 control children from a national population-based case-control study in the United Kingdom conducted over the period 1991–1996. Dates of eczema and infectious diagnoses were ascertained from contemporaneously collected primary care records. Children diagnosed with eczema...

Atopic eczema and preterm birth.

In a group of 443 children with atopic eczema there was a significant lack of subjects born before 37 weeks' gestation. It is possible that preterm birth reduces the chances of the subsequent development of severe atopic disease.

Atopic eczema and preterm birth.

Bacterial infection and atopic eczema.

One hundred and ninety children with atopic eczema were studied prospectively for two and a half years. The mean period of observation was 13 months. Seventy six children (40%) had between them 164 episodes of exacerbation of eczema due to bacterial infection, and in 52 (32%) infection recurred within three months of a previous infection. Twenty five episodes (15%) led to admission to hospital....

Aldrich's Syndrome: Familial Thrombocytopenia, Eczema and Infection.

In 1954 Aldrich, Steinberg and Campbell described a family, originally of Dutch extraction, in which the male infants were liable to die at a young age having shown signs of 'draining ears, eczematoid dermatitis and bloody diarrhoea' from the age of a few weeks. They briefly described the clinical features in one child who was a member of this family and who died. They went on to show quite cle...