I find that works very well. I think that sweating foot business came about years ago when kids wore galoshes that were rubber and sat in them in all day. I think at this point, really don't think that the type of footwear matters. That the face may be pink but the nose is uninvolved. Another minor criteria of atopic dermatitis is secondary infection of the skin.
Secondary infection can be viral or it can be bacterial.
So, first let's talk about eczema herpeticum or Kaposi varicellifrom eruption because it is potentially life threatening. Here is a very severe example of eczema herpeticum. If you took a pen and drew a marker around the edge of the cluster of the vesicles, the drawing that you would make would resemble a bunch of grapes, a scalloped border. Now look at this patient. It has that bunch of grapes outline and scalloped and here it is denuded.