Objectives : Atopic dermatitis(AD) assume an remarkable clinical aspect and it¡¯s diagnosis almost depends on clinical symptoms. Therefore, we aimed to study the clinical diagnostic standard of AD for more accurate treatment. We report as follows;
Methods : For 6 months from March to August in 2000 we selected fifty outpatients who were prognosis of AD in the department of dermatology, Oriental media hospitol, Dong-eui University.
Results and Conclusions :
1. We classified of the grade, the condition of AD patient was slight and severe, by the sum of total by the clinical index of AD (diagnostic features).
2. By consulting previous oriental medical theories, we divided symptom-complex (Ü©ñû) of AD into two type ; one was damp-heat type (ã¥æðúþ) and the other was deficiency of blood-wind-dryness type(úìúÈù¦ðÏúþ).
3. Male to female ratio was 17 : 33 and the third time, adolescence patients was nae than half.
4. According to the results of symptom - complex(Ü©ñû) of AD patients, on the first examination damp-heat type(ã¥æðúþ) was mere than deficiency of blood-wind-dryness type(úìúÈù¦ðÏúþ) and in progressing treatment, the condition has been change to deficiency of blood-wind-dryness type(úìúÈù¦ðÏúþ).
5. In the lesions of AD, arm and knee were most serious skin lesions and in symptoms of AD, pruritus was most complained, and in progressing treatment, erosion and erythema were greatly improved.
6. When we measured the levels of serum Total IgE, that of thirty eight patients were higher than that of normal, but elevation of serum IgE levels was not correlated with the severity of AD.
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