• Gazala Rahman
• Simra Afreen
• Khatija Nishath
• Sri Swetha Meka
• JVC Sharma

Atopic dermatitis is an inflammatory skin disease with early onset and with a lifetime prevalence of approximately 20%. Atopic dermatitis is not always easily manageable and every physician should be familiar with the fundamental aspects of treatment. It is a chronic, inflammatory skin disorder which usually develops in early childhood. In spite of intensive investigations, the causes of AE remain unclear, but are likely to be multifactorial in nature. Environmental factors or ge-netic-environmental interactions seem to play a key role in disease progression. Among various measures of AE manage-ment, cutaneous hydration, which improves barrier function and relieve itchiness, may be helpful to reduce the need for topical steroid use and therefore should be used as a basic treatment? Avoiding aggravating factors is also a basic treat-ment of AE. Standard medical treatment with a pharmacologic approach may be necessary if basic treatment fails to control symptoms satisfactorily. Recently, more attention is given to a proactive therapeutic by regular intermittent appli-cation of low potency steroids or topical calcineurin inhibitors to prevent new flares. Furthermore, various targeted biolog-ics are being introduced for AE control and are proposed as promising therapies. This paper provides a summary of the re-cent literature on the management of AE and a treatment guideline

Eczema, atopic dermatitis, atopic eczema, treatment, prevention, epidemiology

" CURRENT ARTICLE ON ATOPIC DERMATITIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no.106-115, January-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901917.pdf

" CURRENT ARTICLE ON ATOPIC DERMATITIS", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 1, page no. pp106-115, January-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1901917.pdf