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Everything you've ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask)
The Guardian Welcome to the onset of winter eczema. About 1.6 million adults in the UK live with eczema, many since childhood. It can be a year-round torment or flare up in the cold months. A recent Allergy UK survey of adults with eczema found that 88% say it has … |
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Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask) – The Guardian
The Guardian |
Everything you've ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask)
The Guardian Welcome to the onset of winter eczema. About 1.6 million adults in the UK live with eczema, many since childhood. It can be a year-round torment or flare up in the cold months. A recent Allergy UK survey of adults with eczema found that 88% say it has … |
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask) – The Guardian
The Guardian |
Everything you've ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask)
The Guardian And to add to the misery, as the temperature plunges and the heating goes on, normally reliable and trouble-free skin can start to itch, flake and drive a person to distraction. Welcome to the onset of winter eczema. About 1.6 million adults in the UK … |
Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask) – The Guardian
The Guardian |
Everything you've ever wanted to know about eczema (but were too busy scratching to ask)
The Guardian Welcome to the onset of winter eczema. About 1.6 million adults in the UK live with eczema, many since childhood. It can be a year-round torment or flare up in the cold months. A recent Allergy UK survey of adults with eczema found that 88% say it has … |
ScratchMeNot – A lasting, scratching solution for eczema in children
By Andrea Thomas (see bio below) What started off as a tiny red patch of skin on my newborn daughter, turned into a journey of eczema, skin allergies and craziness. It also inspired me to invent the ScratchMeNot Flip Mitten, a solution that would forever change our family’s experience with eczema. My daughter was only 2 […]
It’s an Itchy Little World
Psoriasis: Scratching The Surface
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Article Date: 16 Oct 2012 – 2:00 PST Current ratings for:
Psoriasis: Scratching The Surface
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder that affects approximately 2% of the world’s population.
A group of inflammatory molecules known as interleukins activate an immune response that causes itchy skin, but it is unclear how the skin cells and immune cells communicate.
In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers led by Manfred Kopf at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich,http://www.eczemablog.net/ Switzerland found that mice lacking interleukin-36 (IL-36) were protected from immune-mediated skin inflammation. These results indicate that IL-36 might be a useful therapeutic target in the treatment of psoriasis.
TITLE: Psoriasiform dermatitis is driven by interleukin-36-mediated dendritic cell-keratinocyte crosstalk
View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/63451?key=94c50375c771888cd255
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