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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...
...bleach baths work, then perhaps children with chronic eczema and persistent staph infections could be treated with fewer courses of antibiotics. Continuous antibiotic treatment is not a viable option, especially given the emergence of MRSA, say Silverberg and Paller. "We have been looking for agents that are antibacterial but would not have the problems that we see with antibiotics, where you can and will develop resistance over time," Silverberg says. "With the bleach bath, you reduce the chances of getting grossly infected and needing to go on the antibiotics, and it has benefits in the general community...
Paller and Silverberg underscore that bleach baths should be used as one component of a larger treatment strategy for chronic eczema, always in consultation with a doctor, and that bleach should never be applied directly to the skin. For patients with severe skin damage such as cracking, baths of any kind - including dilute bleach - may initially be too painful, and should be introduced later in treatment only after the skin has begun to improve...
Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston have developed a long–lasting nerve block that could aid in the treatment of pain for patients undergoing surgery or experiencing chronic pain...
...Hopefully there will be a lot of applications for this when patients have pain from either operations or a chronic condition,” said Robert S. Langer, one of the authors and a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. “This could possibly lead to the first long acting nerve block, which is very exciting...