PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | dermatitis, atopic |
| Phenotype | C0011615|atopic dermatitis |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 21358807 | The term atopic eczema is synonymous with atopic dermatitis. |
| PubMedID- 26525422 | Childhood eczema is very common, affecting over 20% of children aged 5 years or under at some point.1 eczema can cause significant distress to children and their families due to sleep disturbance and itch.23 health and societal costs of eczema are thought to cause a similar economic burden to that for asthma.45 the term atopic eczema (synonymous with atopic dermatitis) is widely used to denote a clinical phenotype, rather than those who are truly atopic defined by the presence of ige-specific antibodies to common environmental allergens. |
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