PHILADELPHIA - March 4, 2014 (WPVI) -- There are new answers to a common skin problem. Local doctors have discovered the underlying cause of eczema. <\/p>\n
Dry, itchy, scaly red skin - it's the hallmark of eczema, sometimes called atopic dermatitis. <\/p>\n
Doctors can treat it, but they never really understood how it happens - until now. <\/p>\n
Milla George is a little girl who's had a big eczema problem ever since she was born. <\/p>\n
\"Within about a week of her being born, it was red, scaling, itchy - face, body, hands - pretty much everywhere, \" recalls Milla's mother Christina Chung. <\/p>\n
Dermatologist Dr. Herbert Allen of Drexel College of Medicine says about 1 in 5 people has eczema, and the number is rising. <\/p>\n
There's no age limit to the troublesome condition. <\/p>\n
\"Kids tend to outgrow it, but it can come back later on,\" Dr. Allen says. <\/p>\n
He says doctors have known for years that genetics plays a role - some, like Milla, are more prone to it. <\/p>\n
And doctors knew that staph, a common skin bacteria, also plays a role. <\/p>\n
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