NOMENCLATURE, CLASSIFICATION, AND PATHOGENESIS OF "ECZEMA" IN INFANCY

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Abstract
WHAT is called "eczema" in infants is, just as in adults, a group of various dermatoses which sometimes closely resemble one another. Infants have atopic, contact, seborrheic, and infectious eczematoid dermatitis, eczema-like fungous infections, nummular eczema, and eczematoid eruptions which do not fit into any of these categories and are impossible to classify. CLASSIFICATION AND NOMENCLATURE It has been said that 75% of "eczema" in infancy is atopic dermatitis. A few weeks ago records from my files of 100 patients under 2 years of age were tabulated, and it was found that the diagnosis of atopic dermatitis had been made for 69, and that of contact dermatitis for 13, while the remaining 18% of the group had other dermatoses. I will confine my remarks almost entirely to atopic dermatitis. About 7% of the population differ from the rest in their immunological response to natural exposure by ingestion or inhalation of

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