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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...
...study, researchers followed 31 children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years, who had both conditions: atopic dermatitis, the most common form of childhood eczema, which affects 17% of the school-aged population, as well as a co-infection of Staphylococcus aureus. Although antibiotics are typically used successfully to combat such staph infections, the emergence of drug-resistant MRSA (or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) has physicians increasingly wary of overusing the medicines...
...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...
HIVES The activated immune system triggers eczema and hives...