Author: Firesoft
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Val Dock talks to DrB
The Combined Approach made absolute sense to me both as a past eczema sufferer, and as a general practitioner The Combined Approach in Primary Care: An interview with Valerie Dock MBBS Valerie Dock MBBS qualified in Medicine at The Royal Free Hospital, London UK in 1973. With further training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and Family…
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What previous training does a practitioner require to learn The Combined Approach?
A treatment programme that involves behaviour modification sounds much more complicated than it actually is. Published 06/07/2011
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Topical Tip #2: Soap Substitutes
With atopic eczema, washing the skin with soap and water can leave it dry and itchy Soap and water are unfriendly for atopic skin. Conventional washing removes natural oil from the skin, leaving it relatively porous, or “leaky”. The skin can then rapidly dry out, as water is more able to escape out through the surface…
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Topical Tip #3: Convenient quantities of emollient
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Topical Tip #4: Lotion, Cream or Ointment?
Patients prefer lotions and creams, dermatologists prefer ointments. Why? Described in more detail under Types of emollient on p18 of Atopic Skin Disease – The Manual for Practitioners, a lotion, cream or an ointment is a preparation that is also used as a base or vehicle for a topical steroid – which is therefore also…
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Habit Reversal Tip #1: The Secret World
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Habit Reversal Tip #2: Involving Others
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Habit Reversal Tip #3: Registration
Ten Tips for Successful Clicking! See page 6 of Adult & Older Children Patient Handbook A hand tally counter is essential for succcess with habit reversal. During the first week of registration scratching is not avoided. Registration allows awaremess of the habit to become clear. A baseline frequency with associated circumstances is recorded before habit reversal begins. Then as habit reversal is introduced, use…
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Habit Reversal Tip #4: Habitual Scratching
It is very characteristic with chronic atopic eczema to find only a part of scratching is due to itch: habitual scratching also needs treating In English the words “itch” and “scratch” are often used inter-changeably – to understand habit reversal as part of the treatment of chronic eczema it is useful to distinguish these two…
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Peter Norén talks to DrB
Habit reversal and atopic eczema: An interview with Peter Norén MD Peter Norén MD qualified in Medicine at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden, in 1976 and as a Specialist in Dermatology in 1983. He has been in private practice in Uppsala since 1984, when he founded the Laser Clinic in Uppsala. His expertise has frequently taken…