Tag: Moisturising
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From The Clinic #5: Moisturising Made Easy for the Elderly
“I have a guardsman to put my creams on!” “Necessity is the mother of invention” An eighty-two year old lady with troublesome chronic atopic eczema came to her second clinic visit for The Combined Approach. After review of her week using the hand tally counter to measure her scratching frequency, we began our treatment protocol…
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Holidays, Climate and Atopic Eczema
Having a change may be good, but with atopic eczema a change in climate can require a change in skin care In our protocol for assessing atopic eczema for The Combined Approach, we ask about trigger factors, those circumstances that seem to cause eczema to flare up, as well as those that are associated with…