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...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...
...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...
...five to 10 minutes each time. They were told to pat dry afterward and apply a heavy slathering of moisturizer. The placebo group was not given restrictions about the frequency of baths. Both groups of patients were also treated with oral antibiotics and the nasal ointment muciprocin to control staph infections, which often exist in the nostrils...
...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...
...Despite the reduction in infections generally, the proportion of all hospital-based bacterial infections caused by MRSA increased, by 26% over the same time period. Approximately 64% of ICU staph infections can now be traced to MRSA, according to an earlier survey conducted by the CDC. That means that the risk of bacterial infection for an ICU patient who has been given a catheter or central line is smaller than it was a decade ago, but if he or she does get an infection, it's more likely to involve an antibiotic-resistant strain of MRSA. "Our message is that...