Eczema flare-ups often look different on darker skin, with a dark brown, purple, or ashen gray hue instead of redness. In Black people there’s also a higher prevalence of eczema that presents as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eczema herpeticum is a rare but life-threatening infection that can happen if someone with eczema has direct contact with another person’s cold sore. Infants, children, and people with atopic ...

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 ...

About 7% of American adults have eczema, according to the most recently available Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. But it doesn’t impact everyone equally. Women are more prone to the ...