BACKGROUND Eczema is a chronic, itchy skin condition that can have a large impact on the quality of life of patients and their families. People with eczema are often keen to try out non-pharmacological therapies like silk therapeutic garments that could reduce itching or the damage caused by scratching. However, the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of these garments in the management of ecz...

BACKGROUND Eczema is a common chronic or chronically relapsing skin disease that has a substantial impact on quality of life (QoL). By means of a consensus-based process, the Harmonising Outcome Measures in Eczema (HOME) initiative has identified QoL as one of the four core outcome domains to be assessed in all eczema trials (Allergy 67(9):1111-7, 2012). Various measurement instruments exist to...

BACKGROUND Epidemiologic evidence of the association between maternal intake of dairy foods, calcium, and vitamin D during pregnancy and childhood allergic disorders is inconclusive. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between maternal intake of dairy foods, calcium, and vitamin D during pregnancy and childhood allergic disorders in Japanese children aged 23 to 29 months. METHODS Study par...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of a secondary prevention programme with education on skin care and individual counselling versus treatment as usual in healthcare workers with hand eczema. DESIGN Randomised, observer blinded parallel group superiority clinical trial. SETTING Three hospitals in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 255 healthcare workers with self reported hand eczema within the past yea...

  Cutaneous Leishmaniasis may present with clinical presentation such as zosteriform, sporotrichoid and erysipeloid. The eczema variant has rarely been reported. We report a 27- year- old patient with atypical cutaneous leishmaniasis resembling eczema on the hand of a man in Yazd province in the central of Iran.  

Background: Valid measures of asthma and eczema in epidemiological studies may be a challenge. Population-based registers can be useful as they do not rely on recall and allow for follow-up. Our aim was to ascertain if asthma/eczema medication is a suitable proxy for asthma/ eczema and to validate register-based asthma diagnoses. Method: Data were retrieved on all 0-17-year-old individuals with...

BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence of eczema suggests the role of environmental factors triggering a genetic predisposition. OBJECTIVE To analyze the effect of environmental exposures in early life and genetic predisposition on the development of eczema before age 3 years. METHODS The Copenhagen Study on Asthma in Childhood is a prospective clinical study of a birth cohort of 411 children...

BACKGROUND The association between anxiety and depression, and eczema is well known in the literature, but factors underlying this association remain unclear. Low levels of omega-3 fatty acids and female gender have been found to be associated with both depression and eczema. Somatization and health anxiety are known to be associated with anxiety and depression, further, somatization symptoms a...