Eczema Treatment - Stasis Dermatitis - How to Exercise to Help Your Condition - Part 2

This feat will probably sound more difficult than it really is. One of the ways that you will know that you are doing these exercises correctly is that you will be able to carry on a conversation while you are exercising at 170% of your resting heart rate. If you can not breathe properly and carry on a conversation you are exercising too heavily. In order for this type of exercise to work to help stasis dermatitis, it can not be too strenuous.

Just make sure that you can still talk while you are working out and you should be alright. The exercise you want to use are walking, or cycling. Swimming is also good aerobic exercise, but the water might dehydrate and damage your skin if you are in it for over 20 minutes.

You will want to exercise at this intensity for a duration of 30 - 45 consecutive minutes, for a frequency of 5 times per week. This means that you are being asked to adopt a more active lifestyle and it is hoped that the activity will be enough to cause eczema to go away.

One of the ways that the increased heart rate will help you is with swelling in the lower legs. There are "locks" in the blood vessels that prevent the backflow of blood once it enters the veins taking the blood back to the heart. As people age, these locks can lose some of their efficiency, and begin to leak. When blood vessels in the lower legs leak, any excess blood is able to pool in the lower legs and causes swelling and tightness in those areas. Exercise is able to help with this by putting things in motion so that while the locks may not be completely repaired, the extra speed with which things are moving will help to take some of the excess material away from the area, so that the area can be more relaxed.

You should be aware though that stasis dermatitis, also called gravitational dermatitis can sometimes be a challenge to solve, and that when you do exercise and you see improvements in the area you should not rest on what has been accomplished. The gains that were achieved can be also very easily lost; again what you are aiming at is a change in lifestyle that will ultimately affect your condition's ability to affect you.