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...profession, has taught such English department staples as “Modern American Poetry” and “Major British Writers II” since arriving at the university in 2007. But he is also a longtime student of science fiction. Once a childhood reader of Robert Silverberg, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Isaac Asimov, he now writes course syllabi and critical articles on the genre...
...Nanette Silverberg, director of pediatric and adolescent dermatology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, has been using bleach baths with her patients for years. (She first learned of the treatment during her fellowship in pediatric dermatology studying under Paller.) She says parents and patients are usually dumbfounded when she first suggests the remedy. "They call in relatives from the waiting room to witness the insanity," Silverberg laughs. "Many patients look at me like I've lost my marbles...
...practice, when combined with other treatments, the baths have been a valuable and successful technique, Silverberg says. "The bleach baths do work," she says. "I'm a big believer in using them...
...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...