You must have noticed by now the latest pedicure trend in the UK… the sight of people sitting with their feet in tanks having their extremities nibbled at by hundreds of tiny fish has now become a common sight – in shopping centres, salon windows or on the street. It seems that this is a treatme

Inspired by her niece’s diagnosis of eczema eighteen months ago, Victoria Thompson set up the baby clothing company Green Nippers. All clothing is made from organic cotton, sourced from Soil Association approved suppliers. The benefits of organic cotton for eczema sufferers are: • No pesti

Eczema in children is on the increase, and links have now been made between the rise in cases and the way we treat children’s skin in the first few weeks of life. Professors as Sheffield University have recently conducted research which has found that: • Since the 1940s, our genes hav

A survey has been carried out in eight European countries, in order to examine the impact that childhood eczema can have on both the affected children and their parents. The results show that a significant proportion of children with eczema miss up to five days of school per year, while 18% miss

An Australian study published last month seems to suggest that steroid creams can be used ‘normally’ on children suffering from eczema without resulting in a thinning of the skin. 70 children were provided with enough steroid cream to allow a regular use that kept their conditions under contr

As a eczema sufferer I am in the perfect stance to tell you how the skin condition can affect your life and how you have to cope with life as a sufferer. When does your eczema flare up? Here are a few of the circumstances in which my eczema flares up and I get an attack: After I have been on a he

You will know if you have eczema because you will have patches on your skin which are itchy and it is absolute torture to resist scratching the skin.  If you are unsure if you have eczema, then here are a few of the symptoms of atopic eczema (atopic eczema is when you get the rash in the creases of

First things first, you CAN'T catch eczema - so no matter what the kids in the school playground, etc, say, you're safe to hold hands and play with people that have it. So how do you end up with this itchy, unsightly condition? Well, you people do tend to have a genetic tendency to develop it

I used to think that eczema was eczema, all the same, itchy peeling skin and a red-ish rash to the skin. However, there are 6 main types of eczema: Atopic eczema Allergic contact eczema Irritant contact eczema Seborrhoeic eczema Varicose eczema Discoid eczema Symptoms will vary f

Over the years doctors have seen many instances where children with eczema have gone onto develop asthma. The link between the two is quite common but it is only recently that doctors think they have discovered the trigger that causes children with eczema to develop asthma. A substance produced as