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By Andrew M. Seaman

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There's some evidence to suggest that putting prebiotics in baby formula protects children against the skin condition eczema, according to a fresh look at past research.

The theory is that babies who can't breastfeed can drink formula fortified with prebiotics, which are food particles that promote the growth of healthy gut bacteria or flora, and build immunity against some allergens.

"When you change the gut flora your immunity changes as well," said Dr. John Sinn, the review's senior author from The University of Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital in Australia.

The analysis, published on Thursday by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international organization that evaluates medical research, is an update to a previous review from 2007 that did not find enough evidence to say whether putting prebiotics in baby formula had any benefits.

Previous research had found that about 8 percent of children will develop a food allergy, 20 percent will develop eczema and up to about 34 percent will develop wheezing or asthma.

For the new analysis, the researchers were able to include four studies that randomly assigned a total of 1,428 babies to either regular formula or formula fortified with prebiotics.

The studies reported whether or not the children developed allergic reactions, such as asthma, eczema or hives between four months and two years of age.

Overall, the prebiotic formula did not prevent babies from developing asthma or hives compared to babies fed regular formula, but there was evidence to suggest it may protect against eczema.

Specifically, about 8 percent of 634 babies fed formula with prebiotics developed eczema, compared to about 12 percent of 586 babies fed regular formula.

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Video testimony shows how soul healing from Dr. Zhi Gang Sha helps child eczema and asthma.

New York, NY (PRWEB) March 26, 2013

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New Soul Healing Video Testimony for a Child’s Severe Eczema and Asthma from Vancouver, Canada

ITSAN: International Topical Steroid Addiction Network makes the case for the correlation between the worsening and spreading of eczema, and the overuse of topical steroids.

Indian Harbour Beach, Florida (PRWEB) March 21, 2013

In 30 years of practice I have seen over 2,000 patients who initially had eczema, either in youth, teen years or early adulthood. Each patient started off using cortisone creams. When the initial dose and potency no longer worked they were prescribed a higher potency with more frequent usage. In addition often pills and injections of cortisone were given, said Dr. Rapaport.

In all cases we decided to stop steroids and lo and behold, in one to three years, they were all cured. However, in each case the patient experienced a painful and debilitating withdrawal. They would swell, ooze, have difficulty functioning in school or work, scratch continually, and couldnt sleep; we had to support them with other medication and keep them off steroids, stated Dr. Rapaport.

Kelly Palace, president and Co-Founder of ITSAN, was diagnosed in 2009 with steroid induced eczema caused by her topical steroid addiction. Kelly decided to start a website to chronicle her recovery and alert people of the dangers associated with topical steroids. Since starting the site she has had over 100,000 web visits.

I was critically covered in full body eczema with no recourse. I was given corticosteroid after corticosteroid and told there was nothing else I could do. I was getting worse and worse until I found Dr. Rapaports articles; he saved my life, said ITSAN President Kelly Palace.

Kelly discovered thousands of people like her, over the Internet, suffering the same eczema like incurable symptoms. Whenever they stopped applying topical steroids, their skin would flare, burn, and turn red. Once we each discovered the research, which depicted these exact withdrawal symptoms, we knew our cure was in sight, said Kelly Palace.

ITSANs goals include educating eczema patients about this medical issue. Gaining more recognition amongst the broader medical community about topical steroid addiction. Labeling changes to topical steroids to better warn patients, and patient treatment options for a monitored and less painful withdrawal process.

Kelly Palace has high hopes for those who are still suffering. We hope that if youre suffering that you get the help and support you need from the ITSAN resources and our global, community support groups.

To learn more about Dr. Marvin Rapaport and his research on topical steroid addiction, please visit http://itsan.org.

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Eczema Nonprofit Seeks to Shine New Light on Overlooked Condition

Preet Bhogal still remembers being taunted in school for his inflamed skin. The Nova Scotia native would always wear long-sleeved shirts to cover his arms and tried to shrug off jeers about the flare-ups on his hands, but the words still hurt.

"My eczema covered just about my whole body," says the 33-year-old, who has lived with the skin condition since he was a baby. "It definitely affected my self image, self esteem, mental health."

While the physical severity of Bhogal's eczema improved with a combination of age and a strict care regime, its emotional impact continued to be felt in subtle ways. He didn't wear short-sleeved T-shirts until he was in his 20s, doesn't know how to swim because his eczema was exacerbated by pool water, and he vividly recalls how concerned some of his peers were about catching the skin condition that isn't contagious.

As the rates of those who experience the condition appear to be on the rise, Bhogal and advocates for those with the skin disease hope having conversations about eczema will help demystify the condition and make it easier to deal with.

"There's often a lack of awareness of the issues that it causes," says Bhogal, who is now a board member with the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance.

"I would like for people to just know that it exists and for people to not be afraid to talk about it."

While official statistics are rare, a number of doctors and patient support groups estimate about 20 per cent of Canadians will experience eczema at some point in their lives.

"When you talk about 20 per cent, that's huge," says Dr. Catherine McCuaig, a pediatric dermatologist at the Sainte-Justine children's hospital in Montreal.

Eczema exists in different forms and is most often experienced in childhood. One of the most common forms is atopic dermatitis, a hereditary condition which results in red, itchy and swollen skin which can have fluid-filled bumps that ooze and crust.

Another common form is contact dermatitis - where skin is inflamed from contact with an allergen, like poison ivy, or repeated exposure to an irritant. Other versions of eczema include a form associated with varicose veins and another related to dry skin.

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Eczema hurts more than the skin

Dairy farmers need to be on high alert against underfeeding their cows now that some rain has fallen on drought-parched Waikato, says Livestock Improvement's FarmWise service.

Generally cow condition is still "very acceptable" but with the weekend rain not enough to break the drought, dry matter in the paddocks will start to decompose and farms are moving into a feed high-risk period leading to May 31, winter and calving, says FarmWise manager Jon Nicholls.

"They've got to feed them. The rule of thumb is to double the amount of supplement you have been giving."

Meanwhile, vets are predicting the risk of facial eczema, which had been low until the weekend, will soar with the rain and associated muggy heat.

The senior veterinarian at Anexa Te Aroha, Jan Meertens, said there could well be an "explosion" of facial eczema spores as a result of the decomposing dry grass.

Preparing cows by building up facial eczema prevention a week before spore counts rose was simply good risk management and farmers should have done it "yesterday", he said. Most farmer-clients in his area had dried off their herds, he said.

With ewes soon to go for mating, facial eczema monitoring and prevention was also critical in the sheep and beef sector, said Beef + Lamb NZ chairman Mike Petersen.

The effects of facial eczema could affect an animal for its lifetime, he said.

"It's important to make sure you are monitoring, and there are a number of services for this, and to stay away from facial eczema hot spots. Many farmers will know where these are on the farm, and there are some treatments."

MetService is forecasting showers for the Waikato today and then it's back to warm days of settled weather with no rain in sight. A weak front will approach by Sunday, but meteorologist John Law was not expecting it to deliver significant rain.

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Farmers warned of high facial eczema risk

TORONTO - Preet Bhogal still remembers being taunted in school for his inflamed skin. The Nova Scotia native would always wear long-sleeved shirts to cover his arms and tried to shrug off jeers about the flare-ups on his hands, but the words still hurt.

"My eczema covered just about my whole body," says the 33-year-old, who has lived with the skin condition since he was a baby.

"It definitely affected my self image, self esteem, mental health."

While the physical severity of Bhogal's eczema improved with a combination of age and a strict care regime, its emotional impact continued to be felt in subtle ways. He didn't wear short-sleeved T-shirts until he was in his 20s, doesn't know how to swim because his eczema was exacerbated by pool water and vividly recalls how concerned some of his peers were about catching the skin condition that isn't contagious.

"There's almost a barrier around you. Because I had visible eczema, people were afraid to get close," he says.

While Bhogal's case was an extreme one, the challenges he faced are encountered by many living with eczema today.

As the rates of those who experience the condition appear to be on the rise, Bhogal and advocates for those with skin disease hope having conversations about eczema will help demystify the condition and make it easier to deal with.

"There's often a lack of awareness of the issues that it causes and the amount of stress in the way that skin disease really affects someones life," says Bhogal, who is now a board member with the Canadian Skin Patient Alliance.

"I would like for people to just know that it exists and for people to not be afraid to talk about it."

While official annual statistics are hard to come by, a number of doctors and patient support groups estimate about 20 per cent of Canadians will experience eczema at some point in their lives.

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Support and understanding key to helping eczema sufferers: experts

By Maria Lally

PUBLISHED: 19:12 EST, 18 March 2013 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 18 March 2013

Looking down at my 20-month-old daughter Sophias feet, my heart nearly broke.

The skin was angry, cracked and bloody.

She had similar patches on her legs, tummy, back and arms and was frantically scratching any area she could reach until the skin split.

I tried gently to restrain her but it just upset us both further.

'Sophia had seen various GPs for eczema every month or so for as long as I could remember,' said Maria Lally, pictured with daughter Sophia

The next day I took her to our GP again. He took a brief look at her feet (by now so red and scabbed they looked burnt), said hed seen worse, then handed me yet another prescription for steroid cream, even though I told him we had several half-used tubs at home.

Sophia had seen various GPs for eczema every month or so for as long as I could remember. Each time wed been given steroid creams with barely a word.

Then, just after her second birthday, she suffered a vomiting bug and for two days had just water and dry toast. Her skin became beautifully clear.

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Eczema : Handing out steroid cream can leave children in pain: How GPs are adding to the agony

Detox for Eczema pt.2
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Eczema Outbreak After Eating McDonalds
Early February, 2013, I wanted to treat myself to some McFish Bytes. Well, the next day, small bumps covered my feet and parts of my hands and some on my fac...

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