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Contact Eczema
9 min read
Also known as: contact dermatitis · contact eczema · allergic eczema · contact allergy · touch eczema · toxic contact eczema · allergic contact dermatitis · irritant contact dermatitis · contact allergy · skin reaction to contact
Your Body Is Speaking
The skin reddens, burns, itches — precisely where something foreign has touched it. A watch, a ring, a cream, an aftershave. Medically the matter is clear: the immune system reacts to a substance it classifies as a threat. Inflammatory cells migrate into the skin, the barrier breaks down, redness appears, blisters, sometimes weeping patches. The body repels what touches it.
But why there, specifically? Why does your body react precisely to what you put on yourself — the jewelry you wear, the care you give yourself, the metal resting on your skin? And why does another body tolerate the same substance without difficulty while yours goes on alert?
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