articles about eczema & dry skin
This section contains articles about eczema and dry skin written by doctors, specialists, journalists and individuals from professional bodies and organisations. To read a specific article, click on the underlined heading.
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| Increased exposure to sunlight may reduce the risk of both food allergies and eczema in children, according to a new scientific study published this week by researchers ... |
Epaderm® Cream has been voted ‘Overall Pharmacy Product of the Year’, by independent pharmacists, in the Pharmacy Product of the Year awards ... |
Researchers have discovered three new genetic variants associated with the skin condition eczema, a chronic inflammatory disease that afflicts millions of patients ... |
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Childhood skin disease |
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Eczema rise in children |
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| Skin disease research charity the British Skin Foundation (BSF) is taking the battle against skin disease in children to the airwaves by producing a series of radio shows ... | In a recent survey by the BSF, nine in ten dermatologists and dermatology nurses see childhood eczema as the biggest problem facing paediatric dermatology ... | The largest worldwide study on the association between breastfeeding, time of weaning and eczema in children has concluded that breastfeeding does not prevent eczema ... | ||
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| Don't be afraid to bare your soul in skin season: start the conversation now! |
Dermatologists from across Canada are meeting today to discuss research to help people with skin conditions, diseases and traumas as part of the Canadian Dermatology Association’s (CDA) 86th Annual Conference . In recognition of this conference, the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance (CSPA) is launching a new self-evaluation tool to help canadians ... |
| Creams used to treat eczema could make it worse |
New research at the University of Bath suggests that using emollient creams to relieve the symptoms of eczema could actually make the condition worse. The researchers, from the University’s Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, have published a study in the British Journal of Dermatology showing that aqueous cream BP reduces the thickness of healthy skin ... |
| Topical corticosteroids do not have negative side effects |
Use of topical corticosteroids in children with eczema does not have negative side effects. A new study published in the journal Pediatric Dermatology reveals that routine, long-term use of topical corticosteroids (TCS) for treating children with eczema does not cause any significant, negative side effects ... |
| Hay Fever: importance of starting preventative treatment |
A recent study from Japan has highlighted the importance of starting preventative treatment for seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever) and allergic conjunctivitis well before the pollen season starts. The elegant study evaluated the effectiveness off pre-seasonal topical olopatadine in reducing the clinical features of seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC) ... |
| Food allergy in children |
There has been a huge increase in the occurrence of food allergy in children in the UK over the last 20 years and about 1 in 20 children are now affected. The NHS has published new NICE guidelines on the diagnosis and assessment of food allergies in children. The evidence-based guidelines are concerned with children who present with severe or recurrent asthma ... |
| Warning over unlicensed skin cream |
The British Association of Dermatologists is warning people in the West Midlands not to buy an illegal, unlicensed cream claiming to treat skin problems, after a number of people have suffered ill health after using it. At least six children treated with the cream by their parents have been seen at Birmingham Children’s Hospital, with other cases seen in Oxford and West Bromwich ... |
| Herbal medicine practitioners are to be regulated |
The College of Medicine today welcomed the announcement of statutory regulation for herbal practitioners. The College of Medicine believes that statutory regulation is vital if UK herbal practitioners are to continue to practise and prescribe in compliance with new EU regulations. This decision will ensure good practice and the provision of safe products for the thousands ... |
| Atopic dermatitis |
| Atopic dermatitis, one of the most common forms of eczema in this family of inflammatory skin diseases, is a chronic disease marked by red, cracked and itchy skin. Now, increasing evidence indicates atopic dermatitis is a precursor to allergic diseases rather than a consequence. Dermatologists are advising parents of infants and young children affected by this common ... |
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| Study reveals major shift in how eczema develops |
Not one, but two skin barriers influential in most common skin disease. Like a fence or barricade intended to stop unwanted intruders, the skin serves as a barrier protecting the body from the hundreds of allergens, irritants, pollutants and microbes people come in contact with every day. In patients with eczema, or atopic dermatitis, the most common inflammatory human skin ... |
| Study exploring romantic relationships |
The Centre for Appearance Research (CAR), based at the University of the West of England, Bristol conducted a study exploring the experiences of developing romantic relationships from the perspective of young people with visible differences (Griffiths,Williamson & Rumsey, in preparation). A visible difference is the visible effect of a skin condition, scar, burn, ... |
| Creams used to treat eczema could make it worse? |
New research at the University of Bath suggests that using emollient creams to relieve the symptoms of eczema could actually make the condition worse. The researchers, from the University’s Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, have published a study in the British Journal of Dermatology showing that aqueous cream BP reduces the thickness of healthy ... |
| Antimicrobials for eczema |
| The most common cause of a flare-up in atopic eczema is a bacterium known as Staphylococcus aureus. Despite growing scientific evidence that Staphylococcus aureus makes atopic eczema worse and hinders healing, a survey conducted by YouGov in August 2010 amongst 642 people who have had eczema revealed that 71% of Brits had never heard of staphylococcus aureus ... |
| Dead Sea salts |
| An ancient holistic treatment for relief from psoriasis is gaining new popularity as more people who have psoriasis and eczema turn to natural methods of getting relief. The natural treatment recreates the water conditions of the famous Dead Sea in the user's bath. The effects of using mineral-rich Dead Sea salts to get relief from psoriasis & eczema have recently been shown ... |
| Scientists test new eczema cream |
Skin experts are to test a new cream for the treatment of eczema after trials of an oral version of the drug reduced patients’ symptoms by 35% within a month. University of Manchester researchers in the Dermatology Unit at Salford Royal Hospital will ask 25 adult volunteers to apply the cream to affected areas of their skin for a period of three months ... |
| Cetraben’s new Optic bath dispenser |
Fresh this month from Genus is a NEW pack for Cetraben Emollient Bath Additive. The innovative features of the new design include a transparent contoured bottle for easy grip, an optic measuring device with a spill resistant filling mechanism for accurate dosing and a drip resistant lip to minimise spillage and mess. “Cetraben’s new bath additive dispenser is great ... |
| New studies reveal impact of most common diseases |
New research into a range of common skin diseases affecting hundreds of thousands of Britons will this week reveal the true impact of the conditions on the lives of patients. A series of studies, presented at the British Association of Dermatologists’ conference in Manchester (6-8 July 2010), shows the influence that diseases such as acne, eczema ... |
| Eczema: causes and topical treatments |
| We meet so many people when we attend natural health and beauty fairs who suffer with dry and irritated skin conditions that I thought it may be worthwhile to share a little of our experience on the condition of eczema. Our skin is our largest organ - as well as being our most visible. As such it acts like a notice board for our body ... |
| House dust mite sensitisation study in children with eczema |
| A recent study undertaken by Shek et al at the Department of Pediatrics in Singapore suggests that sensitisation to house dust mites (HDM) is highly prevalent among the young atopic population in Singapore. Previously published data suggest that individuals with skin allergies show preferred sensitisation to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus ... |
| House dust mite avoidance |
| House dust is the major cause of allergy in persons with year long runny or blocked nose and/or sneezing. In addition to these allergic reactions, dust can trigger asthma, night coughs and irritant eyes and exacerbate eczema. A speck of dust may contain fabric fibres, human skin bacteria, animal danders, pollen grains, mould spores, food particles and mites ... |
| What causes flares of eczema in children? |
| A recent study published in the British Journal of Dermatology has tried to answer this important question. The authors sought to identify which environmental factors might worsen eczema. They studied sixty children with eczema aged between 0 and 15 years for up to none months. The severity of eczema for each child was measured using questionnaires ... |
| Eczema patients most at risk of dangerous viral infections |
| Eczema patients at risk for serious viral infections have more severe disease, are more likely to be allergic to food and other allergens, and have a frequent history of staph infections, according to researchers at National Jewish Health and other institutions in the NIH-funded Atopic Dermatitis Vaccinia Network ... |
| Four out of ten skin disease sufferers bullied |
| 23% said that they had suffered from an isolated incident of bullying, with a further 18% revealing that they suffered from regular bullying from their workplace or school. A staggering 92% had been on the receiving end of unwanted remarks and stares. The online survey, was conducted by the skin disease research charity the British Skin Foundation ... |
| Trends in eczema |
| England has one of the world’s largest computer health databases containing the records of over nine million patients, and a group of Community Health scientists have been putting it to good use. They decided to trawl through it and see what is happening to eczema. How often do doctors see it? Is it getting more common? How many prescriptions are issued for it? ... |
| Eczema during pregnancy |
| Eczema is a common skin condition which can be caused because of imbalanced hormones in the body. Due to an impact on hormones in pregnancy, knock-on effects can be tolerated by the skin - that is why women have to face eczema during pregnancy. In some pregnancy cases with eczema, the eczema flare up and takes a severe form and this can be very painful ... |
| What goes with eczema? |
A review of clothing materials and their effect on eczematous skin - in a society seemingly obsessed with physical appearance, you could be excused for thinking that the sole purpose of clothes is to make a personal fashion statement. But for the adult or child suffering from eczema there is a lot more to clothes than what they look like ... |
| The treatment of eczema by immunotherapy |
| Eczema can be treated safely and effectively by immunotherapy, of which there are currently two forms: 1. Enzyme Potentiated Desensitisation (EPD) 2. The Provocation Neutralisation Technique. Eczema is an allergic disease. It is caused by multiple allergens in our diet and and environment. There is no way that anyone can avoid all of these allergens ... |
| Your skin: sensing and responding to the world around you |
| It's easy to think of the skin as a mere wrapping to protect the sensitive organs inside the body, but to understand its problems, you must realize that the skin is itself an organ, just like the heart, lungs and liver. It is the body's largest organ, in fact, and perhaps its most sensitive. The outermost layer of skin, the epidermis, is constantly renewing itself with cells ... |
| Is your itch medical or psychological? |
| You and your doctors could pursue this fruitless question for years and you'll be itching all the while. So get the best medical work-up and treatment you can but remember: all itching is ultimately psychological. However intense, reglargless of origin, itching is not a disease but an experience; it has no physical reality that even the most diligent of scientists can find ... |
| Known skin irritants |
| Having been in practice as an Acupuncturist and Allergist for 30 years I have seen ever-increasing problems with allergies and, in particular, skin allergies. Eczema seems to be reaching almost epidemic proportions! Obviously in Atopic cases we are looking at hereditary links but the increase is equally evident in non-atopic forms as well ... |
| Dust mites and eczema |
| House dust is the major cause of allergy in people with year long runny or blocked nose and/or sneezing. In addition to these allergic reastics, dust can trigger and irritate asthma and eczema. Only since 1964 has it been recognised that the house dust mite can cause problems. A speck of dust may contain fabric fibres, human skin, bacteria, animal danders, pollen, grains, moulds ... |
| Eczema, food allergy and tests |
| It is always a difficult question to answer: "is my child's eczema caused by something he/she is eating?" A week or two ago a mum brought her child with severe eczema to see me. She reported apparent improvement by leaving one or two foods out the child's diet that the mum had worked out logically by trial and error ... |
| Can certain foods trigger eczema? |
| The rise in the number of children with atopic (allergic) eczema has led to increasing interest in the role of diet in this condition. It is widely accepted that foods are among the many environmental factors that make this distressing skin disease worse. The strongest evidence to support this is the demonstration that children with atopic eczema respond well ... |
| Food intolerance and eczema |
Doctors rarely explore the link between food intolerance and eczema with their patients. Yet there is evidence that, for some eczema sufferers, relief (total or partial), can be obtained by a change in diet. Tests for allergies are sometimes carried out but food intolerance, which is less easy to diagnose, is frequently overlooked ... |
| Eczema and food allergy |
Asthma has always been part of my life, but never eczema. I was fifty seven when it started, just two little itchy patches on my legs. I thought nothing of it. They were so small - nothing could have told me of the horror that was to come. Within about six months these two little patches had spread to cover my entire body, from my forehead to my feet ... |
| Remove the causes: cure the eczema! |
| When did your doctor last discuss with you the possible causes of your eczema? Never has? Then perhaps you may not even be aware that eczema has causes, just like most things in life! Funny that: if you went along with a cut finger, one of the first things you'd be asked is "how did you do it?” but if you have a common condition like eczema, nobody bothers to ask ... |
| A western herbalist approach to eczema |
| Herbal medicine is the use of whole plant extracts in treatment of disease. It is the oldest medicine known to man and is still used by about eighty percent of the worlds population as a source of primary health care. The National Institute of Medical Herbalists was established in 1864 and is the oldest body of practising herbalists
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