Women are more prone to the condition than men, and Black and Latinx people tend to have more persistent and severe symptoms ...

The girl was given antibiotics and made a full recovery, but her experience highlights the complexities people of color—particularly those with brown and Black skin—have in managing eczema ...

This is what motivated me to start a skin blog, Woke Within Skin, aimed at helping Black people with eczema and expressing their voices. It filled an obvious void that I'd personally experienced.

That persistent itchy patch might be eczema even if it doesn ... dark purple, or almost black depending on the individual’s base skin tone. These hyperpigmented areas often persist long ...

"My eczema is in remission ... in 2006 found that pimecrolimus cream showed promise in treating skin discoloration in Black patients who experienced hypopigmentation related to seborrheic ...

Dark patches from eczema can last longer than ... cause ochronosis – paradoxical bluish-black discoloration – particularly in melanin-rich skin. Always use hydroquinone under professional ...

Atopic dermatitis — the most common type of eczema — can affect anyone, but it’s most prevalent in Black children. Certain symptoms of atopic dermatitis can vary by skin tone. For instance ...

As a child, Lauren Du Pree didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about the fact that she had eczema. “It wasn’t like I got bullied. It was just this thing I had to put cream on,” Du Pree ...

I’ve lived with eczema my entire childhood, through parts of my adulthood, and having the constant need to claw at your own skin is one of the worst feelings. The worst of my bout with eczema ...