Why is eczema easy to get in summer?

As a southerner and damp heat constitution, eczema is bound to break out this summer. I believe many people in damp heat constitution have the same problem.

So, what are the causes and manifestations of summer dampness and heat?

The temperature in summer is sultry and humid, and friends who have experienced the summer in Guangdong will have a deep understanding, especially after the heat, just like a sauna, it makes people breathless. If you are weak because of the hot weather or like to eat cold food, it is more likely to cause moisture to stay in your body. People often feel sweaty, sticky, thirsty and upset, insomnia at night and fatigue easily. On the skin, the face or the tip of the nose is always shiny, prone to acne, or recurrent eczema on the skin, unbearable itching, easy to delay and difficult to heal.

Chinese medicine believes that the human body is attacked by moisture because of spleen deficiency, so if these symptoms appear, you can go to the hospital for treatment, or you can eat more foods that strengthen the spleen and eliminate dampness, and clear away heat and summer heat.

Mung beans, adzuki beans, coix seed and poria cocos are all good products for eliminating dampness. In summer, you can cook mung bean porridge, red bean coix seed soup and red bean coix seed poria cocos ribs soup.

In addition, people in damp heat constitution should eat less sweets, drink less alcohol and eat less spicy food. Foods suitable for people in damp heat constitution include bitter gourd, towel gourd, celery, mustard, laver, string beans, watermelon, duck snail and so on. Ophiopogon japonicus, bird's nest, tremella, donkey-hide gelatin, honey and maltose are not suitable.