subject: How An Ecream Can Help With Your Eczema Rash [print this page] How An Ecream Can Help With Your Eczema Rash
An ecream is essentially a cream which contains large concentrations of vitamin E. Vitamin E is a nutrient that's heavily associated with skin health and because of that, it is even thought of as an eczema natural treatment. Frankly, vitamin E has no direct role in treating an eczema rash but because of what it can do to the skin, it indirectly treats eczema in some way and can therefore help you with your eczema.Vitamin E, along with vitamins A, D, and K, is a fat soluble vitamin. Unlike most vitamins which can easily be digested when taken with water (water soluble vitamins), fat soluble vitamins like vitamin E need to be taken with fatty foods. Otherwise, they won't be digested but they will be stored in the liver though for future use. It is composed of tocopherols and tocotrienols which are responsible in contributing to skin health and overall health.Because an ecream is something that is only applied on the skin and not taken orally to be digested like a vitamin E supplement, its benefits are limited to the skin. However, an improved skin health is just what a person with eczema needs and an ecream will be enough to sustain that.Perhaps the most popular benefit of ecream is its anti-oxidant properties. Vitamin E has long been taken as a supplement or used in the form of ecream or vitamin E lotions because of this. As an anti-oxidant, vitamin E helps protect the skin from any damage which may ensue due to exposure to the sun's UVA and UVB rays, pollution, and other skin damaging elements. As a result of this skin protective quality, vitamin E also slows down the ageing process of the skin because according to the "Free Radicals Theory," aging of the body (including the skin) speeds up when it is exposed to harsh environments. Hence, by using an ecream, you can keep your skin looking young and youthful skin is undoubtedly more healthy than aged skin.Even though the effects of a vitamin E ecream on eczema is not obvious, the aforementioned benefits of the vitamin E on skin health can actually contribute to the improvement of your eczema rash. First of all, let us discuss the anti-oxidative property of vitamin E and why it can be useful with eczema. Now with eczema, the skin is more susceptible to the damaging effects of the environment and to skin irritants as well. Believe it or not, it is this susceptibility of the skin that makes it more prone to the development of an eczema rash. Hence, if you counteract this susceptibility of the skin by protecting it with the use of an ecream, you will in turn prevent eczema.Second, let us delve into the anti-aging properties of vitamin E. If you will look closely at the skin of old people, their skin is less elastic and more dry. The poor elasticity of the skin as well as its dryness can both make the skin more prone to skin irritation. Also, aged skin tends to heal poorly and this is why rashes tend to linger longer on the skin with older people. Fortunately, vitamin E and the use of an ecream can delay the rate at which the skin ages. If you start using an ecream early in your 20s, you can drastically slow down the skin aging process and therefore prevent it from becoming more prone to irritation.
