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According to prolonged history of on and off rash
Dermatitis/ eczema may be one of the reason eczema covers many types of inflammatory skin conditions, rashes come and go skin patches may be very itchy red dry sore and swollen it can be any where but often occurs inside of elbows back of kness buttocks hands and feet
Treatment should be planned very vigilently to prevent flare and infection and to control the rash and itch different people respond differently to different treatment which include topical steroids immunomodulators barrier repair moisturizers sytemic steroids and immunosuppressant and phototherapy
There is no cure for eczema but can be controlled with treatment.
Other possible cause for this rash may hypothyroidism
there is slow metabolic rate and it affects virtually all the systems of the body
Skin changes include scaly wrinkles coars dry skin
Eczema craquele can occur other assosiated skin changes include pemphigus; people develop open sores on skin, lupus erythematosus in which scarring scaling or ficed red circular rashes mostly on sun exposed area
Treatment include avoidance of harsh and irritating soaps use of moisturizer.
Hyperthyroidism can also cause lumpy rash over skin in case of graves disease
One other cause combining the back pain and rashes may be psoriasis in which people develop red patches of skin with silvery scales itching burning and soreness can also be there arthritis can coexist with it and can affect any joint. it causes pitted discoloured nails.

Other causes include allergic reations, chronic urticaria, celiac disease, drug reactions, ring worm infection etc

Clinical corelation and appropriate investigation is required to sort out the cause

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