The itching was relentless,” dermatologist Oma Agbai, MD, remembers a Black patient telling her. The woman had been experiencing severe eczema since childhood without much improvement. Now an adult ...

In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that non-Hispanic Black children are 14.2% more likely to have eczema than non-Hispanic White children. Why Do People With ...

What Causes Eczema on My Lips? There are several causes of eczema on your lips. Here are some of them: The environment. Sometimes, things in the environment that you come into contact with ...

Thirteen percent of each group has the condition. White people are the third most common to have eczema, at 11% of the population. And Black people are least likely out of the four groups to have ...

As a child, Lauren Du Pree didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the fact that she had eczema. “It wasn’t like I got bullied. It was just this thing I had to put cream on,” Du Pree ...

The way eczema presents varies depending on a person’s skin tone. Lighter-skinned people may notice red or ... in treating skin discoloration in Black patients who experienced hypopigmentation ...

A survey of 1,500 people of color with eczema looked at their experiences of living with their skin condition. While 72% said that other family members have eczema, one in nine shared that they ...

For many people, eczema can be challenging ... cold sores in your mouth or on your lips, and high count of a certain white blood cell (eosinophilia). Serious side effects include allergic ...

and Black and Latinx people tend to have more persistent and severe symptoms than individuals of other races and ethnicities. On top of taking a physical toll, eczema can also have a devastating ...