Preventive treatment effective for eczema flare-ups

<p><strong>A new study has found that among adults with eczema, proactive and long-term treatment with topical anti-inflammatory ointment applied twice a week kept the skin condition stable and reduced flare ups.</strong></p> <p><em>30 May, 2008 – 12:55</em></p> <p><a href="https://www.skinmagazine.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Preventive-treatment-effective-for-eczema-flare-ups1.jpg"> </a>Conventional treatment of <a href="https://www.skinmagazine.co.uk/eczema">eczema</a> typically involves applying anti-inflammatory medication to the infected areas of skin.</p> <p>The study, published in the June edition of Allergy Magazine and carried out by Dr. Andreas Wollenberg, from Ludwig-Maximilian Universitat in Munich, Germany, and members of the E.T.O Study Group, conducted a clinical trial in which 247 adult patients with eczema initially applied a calcineurin inhibitor ointment twice daily for up to six -weeks to visible lesions.</p> <p>Patients who responded well were then randomly assigned to apply the topical anti-inflammatory or placebo ointment twice-weekly for twelve months. If flare ups occurred, they were treated with daily treatments until the flare-up subsided.</p> <p>The average time to a first flare up was much longer for the proactively treated patients (142 days) than for the reactively treated patients (15 days). The proactive group also had a lower percentage of days in which their condition flared up and more of them had no flare ups compared to the control group.</p> <div> <table width="283" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td width="283"> <div>eczema cream</div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div></div> </div>