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When treating children for chronic eczema, pediatricians may want to look in the laundry room, according to a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. The study reports that adding a small amount of household bleach to a child's bathwater can dramatically reduce the itching, rashes and discomfort caused by eczema...
...treatment sounds harsh, but the findings confirm what many pediatric dermatologists have seen anecdotally for years. The theory is that the antimicrobial properties of bleach help relieve symptoms of eczema not by acting directly on that skin condition, but by improving children's skin infections of staph bacteria - a common co-occurrence that exacerbates the irritating symptoms of eczema...
...line is that the more antibiotics we use, the higher the risk for something becoming resistant to them," says Dr. Amy Paller, a study author, specialist in pediatric dermatology and chair of the dermatology department at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. "The beauty of something like dilute bleach is that one doesn't get resistance...
...Medebach-Oberschledorn, in the central region of Sauerland. At the time of the arrests, police say, the suspects were almost ready to strike and had turned their house into a bomb factory. The authorities found dozens of detonators and barrels of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in hair bleach which, when mixed with other materials, can be used to make explosives...
...described with the same clarity as a Narcotics Anonymous meeting. Joon herself eventually acknowledges this discrepancy in storytelling; “Who knew where or when this was,” she wonders, as her junkie roommate tries to convince her to perform an abortion on herself using bleach and a tampon. Having rendered her own credibility as a narrator questionable, the story is further complicated by blunt, unprecedented chronological leaps that often reveal a character’s future demise within a short, humorous story. As this fatalistic narrative proceeds, Mun attempts to douse her inherently despondent story with...