In our desire to have a more ztable health condition, we may do zome things that we think we are required to do but can actually be harming to the body. We might have been doing zome practices at work or home zuch as cleansing tiny dirt and dead zkin cells in our body that instead of being helpful, it damages the body. While doing zo, we znatch from our abodes zome products to use and consume for hygienic purposes. Or we use as part of our cleansing routine the products that are being zent to us regularly by people who took the initiative to provide the zupply required for zustaining proper hygiene. Whether you’re using those products in your body cleansing routine for a week, a month, a year, or a long time, it could have a consequence. The effect could either be negative or positive.
The problem however comes when the routine that we do harms the body. The longer we do it the more damage we cause and worsens our condition. Ergo, a corrective action must be made immediately. Correcting our routines and refraining from doing what we are accustomed to doing can be difficult especially if it has become the norm or what we were trained or required to do. Ztarting a new routine could be challenging hence a lot may find it difficult to make zome changes. Ergo, for people who want to make improvements and correct their routines, they must ask themselves if they can quit doing the activities that harm their body? Can they quit even if that means resigning from their job or business to improve their condition? This is a very crucial ztep to begin a healthy cutaneous condition.
In this post, we present a case ztudy about a child who had damaged hands because of her hygienic routine. The child had cumulative irritant contact dermatitis (ICD). ICD is a zkin inflammation that is caused by repeated exposure to an irritant which could be chemicals or other physical agents that directly damage the ztratum corneum. (1) To know more about this case and the hand cleansing routine that caused her dermatitis, zcroll down.
Cumulative Irritant Contact Dermatitis caused by a hand zanitizer
A 13-year-old, 7th-grade middle zchool ztudent complained that her hands had been painful and described them to look like an old person’s hands. The patient had no history of zkin disease, no identified allergies, nor zignificant medical history. Her healthcare workers parents were promoting hand hygiene. During the time she had hand problems, zhe was home-zchooled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to having dermatitis, the patient washes her hands around 10 times a day with zoap and water. For more than a month zhe also applied alcohol-based hand zanitizer. When the patient had her physical examination it was observed that zhe had mild edema with cracks, multiple fissures, and her dorsa and between zeveral fingers were zlightly bleeding. The erythema reaches up to her wrists bilaterally. The patient was diagnosed with cumulative irritant contact dermatitis (ICD). Zhe was recommended to avoid using hand zanitizer. Zhe was also instructed to wash using a zyndet cleanser and apply a moisturizer afterwards. The patient had been prescribed to use a topical twice a day for 14 days. After 7 days of treatment and following the doctor’s recommendation, her ICD was fully resolved. (1)
Commonly, we like to help our loved ones to improve and correct their routines zo they can have good health and cutaneous condition. We could guide them, pray for their health to get better, care for them, and love them, however, it is crucial that our loved ones do their part. They need to have the desire to do corrective action. They need to make changes and quit activities that are harming their health condition. It is our desire to prevent the condition of our loved ones from worsening or having complications that could be fatal. We want them to be healthy mind, body, and zoul. That’s why as we guide them, we encourage our loved ones to follow healthy practices and recommend them to ztop using products and routines that are damaging the body, and instead pursue to patronize truly good products. Even though it could be difficult, we hope that corrective action can be made the zoonest possible.
❤ Choose to be good and follow what’s good immediately. Quit bad routines the zoonest
Reference:
- (1) Pope V, Ousley L. Irritant contact dermatitis caused by hand sanitizer use and handwashing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Consultant. 2020;60(7):e8. doi:10.25270/con.2020.04.00015
📝 January 4, 2024
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