Consequences
Dermatitis
can be experienced as more or less troublesome. That depends on the seriousness of the medical condition. If you just have a slight itching at the earlobe combined with a light reddening, you will probably not pay much attention. If you have serious skin lesions with oozing wounds, strong itching and swellings, this will be quite different.
The afflictions can be rather constrictive. Reddening and itching can persist for a long time. The longer the problems persist and the stronger the sensations are, the more you will feel restrained in your normal life.
Dermatitis can appear on all parts of the body and will cause uncomfortable sensations. On body parts visible to our environment (hands, face) or used in our everyday life (hands), the impairment will feel especially strong. Above all, our hands are very important tools to get in contact with the rest of the world.
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Hand dermatitis is particularly unpleasant. In addition, we cannot really hide our hands under our clothing. This would look quite unusual. Therefore, our skin lesions are visible to everyone. More information...
If the skin of the hands is swollen, irritated or thickened and cracky, the skin nerves located under these skin parts cannot take in the signals of touch or only in a changed form. You may have a sensation of having a layer of dry soil to be glued to your hands. As this dry layer is not elastic, you will not be able to move your fingers well, neither can you really feel anything if you touch objects.
When a person has stronger skin problems, he or she avoids direct skin contact to other people. If you touch someone (e. g. when shaking hands), the dry hand feels like a grater. That is the reason why skin contact to friends and other contacts are often avoided without any other necessity.
