The Calm Skin Guide: How to Manage Childhood Eczema

Jae Rance · Amber Hatch

2024. g. apr. · Souvenir Press

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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.

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Jae Rance is the founder of ScratchSleeves, a company that produces child-friendly anti-scratch solutions. She made the very first sleeves to help her own son cope with his itchy nights and she shares eczema advice for parents on the ScratchSleeves blog.

Amber Hatch is a writer, editor and former childminder, with a passion for wellbeing and meaningful connection. She is the author of five books, including Nappy-Free Baby and Mindfulness for Parents.