Affects face, eyelids, cheeks. Symptoms: papules, vesicles, dry, rigid
skin, scurf, glistening, shedding hairs. Treatment: as in eczema;
antiseptics.
Footnote 1:
Acute eczema of the heels. See chapped heels and grease.
The cheeks and forehead are the most liable to suffer in this affection,
yet the eyelids and the parts below the inner canthus may participate in
connection with the escape of tears and the disease of the lachrymal sac
or ducts. It has been seen in the young when strangles had merged into
skin eruption, but also in the aged and independently of that affection.
_Symptoms._ Following strangles the papules or vesicular eruption may
have passed leaving the skin thick, rigid, dry and scurfy. The pigment
may be increased and the hairs are usually shed in connection with
atrophy of their follicles and rubbing of the itching surface, so that
the cuticle is smooth, glabrous and even glistening. In implication of
the lachrymal apparatus, there is shedding of hairs beneath the eye or
the wet matted condition of those that remain.
_Treatment._ In strangles use a lotion of silver nitrate or sodium
hyposulphite to destroy the local infection. In other cases treat as for
ordinary eczema.