by Dr Harley Farmer
Dry skin and winter go together. Applying skin moisturisers ends the dryness for many people. For millions of others applying those moisturisers creates eczema misery: They call it Atopic Eczema or Atopic Dermatitis. Atopic is a medical word meaning they don’t understand why the skin goes red and itchy. In fact it’s been very easy to understand since 1992 when the evidence was published in a respected medical journal. The evidence relates to the mineral oil in most skincare products...
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Eczema sufferers benefit from knowing that a healthy microbiome protects against eczema. It’s the population of microbes — bacteria, fungi and viruses — which shares their body space. When you look at a person, be aware that there are more microbe cells than human cells in that person. This can be a terrible shock if you’ve been taught that all microbes are bad and dirty things. Sorry about that; you’ve been sold a very nasty lie! The good news is that the vast majority of those mi...
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It’s National Eczema Week … again. But will the full truth be revealed to the suffering public? It’s been 25 years since the cause of most Atopic Eczema was revealed in a highly respected peer-reviewed dermatology journal. I regularly review the medical literature and I’ve never seen any counter-evidence suggesting the 1992 evidence was wrong. That’s the way medicine works; if evidence is not proven wrong then it’s right. They haven’t refuted it, yet it seems they have ignored...
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We’re being told antibiotics can precede eczema. Here we go again … … more confusion pumped into the eczema debate. We’re seeing a new flurry of press reports about antibiotic use in children being followed by eczema. To be fair I believe the association as many reputable scientific articles have shown the same. The issue arises when advisers fail to realise how much damage can happen when the confusion is allowed to persist. Consider this: two parents who’ve both h...
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