Contributing Factors to Persistent or Adult-Onset Atopic Dermatitis

Zoe Diana Drael...:         It's interesting to note that the incidence of atopic dermatitis in adults is increasing dramatically, not only in the United States but around the world, especially in the Orient, especially in Japan. No one really knows exactly what causes atopic dermatitis to occur, but there are some thoughts that we live in a very clean world, and because we live in a very clean world, children don't share beds, children don't eat dirt, children [00:00:30] don't play in the mud as much as they used to, that their immune system is not being fully developed, and that this is, therefore, leading to an increase in adult atopic dermatitis. So, children that have allergies, hay fever, asthma, those are the individuals that are predisposed to get atopic dermatitis. And if the proper triggers occur during adulthood, indeed, atopic dermatitis can have an adult onset.