How is eczema treated?

How is eczema treated?

Harold Kaiser (Practicing Allergist and Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School) gives expert video advice on: How is eczema treated?

The cortisone creams, even the mild ones that you can buy in the drugstore without a prescription, like Cortaid, are often very useful for symptomatic relief of the mild eczema. If the eczema gets to be more moderate or severe, they don't help very much, and one should see a physician for this sort of thing because it's a miserable condition, especially when it gets worse. It's itchy; people don't like to have it. It interferes with your social life, kids are made fun of, and it's best to get things as under control as you can. I wish there were an easy way to prevent it, but other than those where food allergy are involved, it's a difficult thing. Much of the eczema is idiopathic, and we don't know where it comes from.