Wet Wrap Therapy for Eczema Treatment
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If you are suffering with red, swollen, and itchy eczema that is keeping you up at night and there is no relief in sight, it may be time to ask your physician about wet wrap therapy. This kind of therapy has been proven to give relieve and to remoisturize and soothe sore and itchy skin. Children suffering from severe atopic dermatitis have found relief using wet wrap therapy. Even when the two weeks of wet wrap therapy ended, they still saw improvements. This therapy has also been found to help with moderate to severe hand dermatitis. What is wet wrap therapy?
Wet wrap therapy is when they wrap wet bandages around the sore skin. Before the wet wrap therapy begins, the patient needs to soak in a bath with emollient oil. Then moisturizer is rubbed into the skin to make it moist. If your eczema is severe, then an anti-itch cream may be applied to the affected skin. The bandages that are used for wet wrap therapy are soaked in warm water or a special moisturizer until very wet. The bandages are then wrapped on the area where the body has eczema. This therapy can be used on any part of the body that is affected by eczema, including the face. To help keep the moisture in, dry bandages are wrapped over the wet bandages.
The advantages to wet wrap therapy are many. This therapy helps to rehydrate the damaged skin, can help you sleep better, reduce itching, and decrease redness. Another benefit is that it decreases the chance that the bacteria that is on the skin naturally will develop into an infection.
There are some negatives to wet wrap therapy as well. For one thing, it takes quite a bit of time to do from start to finish and for children, this may be difficult because they do not like to sit still for long. Another negative is that some children and adults may find it hard to sit wrapped in wet bandages for the time required for the wet wrap therapy to work. In place of bandages, you can use moistened pajamas or other clothing to treat children or infants, which would be more comfortable. One thing that you need to keep in mind is that the temperature of the room should be comfortable for the patient, because sitting with wet bandages may make them feel cold.
In most cases, wet wrap therapy is only done for a week or two, and no longer. You will need to keep the skin hydrated frequently during the day with a moisturizer after you have completed your wet wrap therapy. There are other methods of treatment that you can use also, including avoiding allergens or other irritants and using a steroid cream or other medication as directed by your physician.
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