What Doctors Don't Tell YouHERBAL CREAMS: More steroids found
Re your report on essential fatty acids (WDDTY vol 14 no 2), we know that EFAs are fragile and easily oxidised, so people who consume oils need to have plenty of vitamin E, from a natural source, as this antioxidant is fat-soluble.
Finding the source of eczema, like many other chronic diseases, appears to be a matter of persistent detective work. Don't get discouraged if your first approach doesn't work keep looking until y ...
THE NATURAL REMEDIES DON'T WORK: Question mark over a couple of trusty
The epidemic of eczema, which affects one fifth of children, may be the fallout from our obsessive concern with keeping our children free of germs. ...
Studies have revealed that three different species of animals developed cancer (including skin cancer and lymphomas) after topical applications of Elidel (pimecrolimus) and Protopic (tacrolimus) eczema creams. The effects of Elidel and Protopic on...
Several helpful tips for last week's reader who wanted to know what she could do to help her baby's eczema. One mother whose tot also suffered from a bad bout of the eczema says the condition cleared up when he was put on a gluten-, corn- and dairy...
A 22-year-old woman suffers from this condition, symptoms of which include troublesome itching, redness, dryness, and sometimes cracking, weeping and scabbing. Can anyone offer her advice on treatment?
Having read your booklet Guide to Asthma and Eczema, I feel I should write to you about something you wrote on page 23.
At the age of four months, my son Edward developed seborrhoeic dermatitis. It started as a dry eczema patch on his forehead, then spread over his entire head. The skin was weeping and forming thick crusts,
