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The Calm Skin Guide

How to Manage Childhood Eczema

Amber Hatch author Jae Rance author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Published:11th Apr '24

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A friendly parent's guide to understanding, managing and living with childhood eczema

A parent's eczema care guide to soothe the itch and calm your child Eczema affects 1 in 5 children, causing itchy, sensitive, easily-damaged skin that flares-up painfully. The Calm Skin Guide offers an overview of all the treatment approaches on offer, giving you everything you need to formulate your own management plan for your child, and the tools to adapt when things change. It includes clear guidance on: - Eczema and the itch-scratch cycle - Doctor and pharmacy-based treatments, including emollients, steroids and antihistamines - Alternative treatments, how to assess them and how to use them - Identifying triggers in the home like dust, humidity, skincare products, detergents and foods - The relationship between eczema, asthma and allergies, and how to manage these conditions together - An emergency flare-up chapter - what to do first With tips on washing and laundry routines, practical ideas for ensuring comfortable, itch-free sleep, and guidance from GPs and dermatologists, here is friendly, research-based advice to help you keep your child's eczema - and the distress resulting from it - calm, soothed and under control.

A full guide to help parents navigate their child's chronic condition * The Sun *
A book to fill the gaps in your knowledge with useful, common-sense advice and to allow you to understand what might be going on with your child's skin and what to do about it -- Dr Philippa Kaye, from the Introduction
A clear, calm and sensible guide to eczema management . . . written with warmth and humour and broken down into manageable chunks. Essential when you are feeling overwhelmed with your child's eczema -- Rosie Wellesley, GP and author/illustrator of The Itchysaurus

ISBN: 9781800815957

Dimensions: 214mm x 134mm x 32mm

Weight: 380g

384 pages

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