Tag: Atopic eczema
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Why AtopicSkinDisease.com?
How www.AtopicSkinDisease.com came about A new approach to treating atopic skin disease was introduced at The Daniel Turner Department of Dermatology at Westminster Hospital London in 1989. It is a combined approach, combining optimal conventional topical treatment of atopic eczema with the behaviour modification technique habit reversal to eliminate habitual scratching. Since its introduction it has…
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What is atopic skin disease?
Atopy is a condition a person is born with: it is constitutional. Atopy carries with it a possibility of getting asthma, hay fever, and eczema. This is called The Atopic Triad. Eczema and dermatitis are terms that can be used interchangeably for a particular type of skin inflammation. It occurs with atopy, and also without: when it…
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“Behavioural dermatology – The Combined Approach to atopic eczema”
from exchange National Eczema Society Members’ Magazine MARCH 2011 pp20-22 Behavioural medicine – of which behavioural dermatology is a part – links medicine with human behaviour, in order to both improve our understanding of physical illness, and therefore improve its treatment. Behavioural medicine takes account of the behaviour of everyone involved – those…
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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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Habit Reversal Tip #1: The Secret World
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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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Topical Tip #5: The use of creams and ointments
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MarcieMom talks to DrB
How using signing was a fun way of distracting six month old Marcie from scratching DrB(@ckbridgett) met MarcieMom (@MarcieMom) through Twitter, and then agreed to doing a guest blog called “Friday Feature – Eczema Q&A with DrB” on her great website eczemablues.comHere MarcieMom talks to DrB about her use of sign language – signing –…
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Why is it important to avoid saying “stop scratching”?
For others to say “Stop scratching” and “Don’t scratch” is reported as the commonest response that people with atopic eczema get when they scratch in the company of others. And no-one reports the advice helps to them stop, or even reduce scratching – if anything the frustration and irritation the advice causes leads to an…