The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology has published a study that calls for the allergy as a disease of the future. Infectious diseases in the coming years will be overtaken by those allergic particularly in cities of developing countries that are experiencing rapid population growth.

The study carried out by analysis of the last 5-10 years in which it was noted the increasing incidence of eczema in children The chief investigator Hywel Williams said the cause of this increase is due to environmental changes because they are ruled out genetic factors as they may cause a change so fast.

This perspective has to be considered having regard to the serious economic impact that is generated in family life. Eczema is an inflammatory disease of the skin, chronic and itchy. Causes redness and creates efflorescence events including macules, papules, pustules, scales, crusts and blistering skin lesions and even scratching.
Treatments require an outlay rates equal to that of ‘asthma. In fact, treatment is ongoing and requires in addition to specific drugs, including antihistamines and corticosteroids, and we may add the phototherapy, much used, based on narrow-band UVB and UVA1.

More are to be calculated in all treatment “for local use, i.e. treatments and soothing emollients to be applied directly to the skin along with the environmental adaptation of the places where we live, and the places that families should try to eliminate the factors that trigger allergy and irritant eczema: from substances such as detergents, inhalants or contact substances that worsen the conditions of the subject, as well as food, among which we also buy special ones or special diets.

The study organized by Dr. Hywel Williams was made about 300 thousand children aged between 13 and 14 years of 55 states and in children aged 6 to 7 years from 35 countries. Children which seen at treatment centers usually for allergies. The analysis of this trial study showed a reduction of cases of eczema in European countries such as England, Ireland, Germany and Sweden. A significant increase was observed in countries like Mexico, Chile, Kenya, Algeria and South-East Asia. Finally an increase in cases of eczema in the last 5-10years was found among all the younger children and among most of the countries analyzed.

As regards the trigger environmental changes mean that the solution lies not only with new and appropriate public health policies, even with effective environmental policies.