Abstract

Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease that usually begins in early childhood and may continue or recur into adulthood.The study of atopic dermatitis remains one of the most pressing problems of modern dermatology in connection with the widespread, severe course, frequent relapses, the disease of the most children. According to statistics, it occupies one of the first places in children for reasons of patients' referral to the polyclinic dermatological profile, it is caused by 30-40% of all skin diseases and 30-40% of cases of hospitalization in a dermatological hospital. The disease occurs in both sexes and in different age groups. The incidence ranges from 6.0% to 15.0%.