Q I'm in my 30s and have had atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis. Maybe that's why my skin seems to flare up more easily whenever anything touches it. Is there a connection?
A A constitution with sensitive immunity, as in atopic dermatitis and allergic rhinitis, tends to develop contact dermatitis more easily and severely. Regulating the underlying immune hypersensitivity often eases multiple allergic symptoms together.
Detailed Answer
People with atopic dermatitis or allergic rhinitis often have an allergic constitution with a weak skin barrier and an overreacting immune system, so contact dermatitis too tends to arise more easily and, once it arises, to spread severely. This is because external substances penetrate easily through gaps in the weakened barrier, and the sensitive immunity reacts excessively.
Korean Medicine Clinic Perspective
At Dongjedang, rather than viewing such cases separately, we treat together the oversensitive immunity and internal damp-heat that are the common root of multiple allergic symptoms. In addition to reducing the irritation that touches the skin, through an internal-medicine approach that stabilizes the oversensitized internal immunity and constitution, we aim to help ease not only the contact dermatitis but also the accompanying allergic tendencies together.
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