INTRODUCTION Atopic dermatitis is a chronic, inflammatory skin rash that greatly affects quality of life. The current therapies are inadequate in managing atopic dermatitis and often have associated adverse effects or drug tolerance development. Chinese medicine is expected to have promising prospects in the management of atopic dermatitis and recent studies have shown encouraging results. This...

269 Refractory Chronic Urticaria Treated with Omalizumab Martinez Saenz, NP, Ramírez Del Pozo, ME, Lopez Tiro JJ, and Javier Gomez Vera, MD. Alergia e inmunologia clínica, Hospital Regional Lic. Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Distrito Federal, Mexico. Background: Chronic urticaria (CU) is a common disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of urticaria pruritic erythematous lesions, associated with ang...

INTRODUCTION Atopic dermatitis is a common disease in children. It is usually treated with topical steroids and/or calcineurin inhibitors in association with emollients but topical antioxidants have been recently introduced as a therapeutic option for children. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of furfuryl palmitate, a new antioxidant molecule, in a multicenter...

INTRODUCTION Staphylococcus aureus colonisation/infection is common in children with atopic dermatitis (AD). MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated the nasal and body swabs of Chinese children with moderate-to-severe AD as assessed using SCORing-Atopic-Dermatitis (SCORAD) score. Swabs were taken from the right nostril, 5 flexural sites (anterior neck, antecubital fossae and popliteal fossae) and ...

Preand probiotics (synbiotics) are suggested to have beneficial effects on human health. This study describes effects of an amino acid based formula (AAF) with synbiotics in infants with cow’s milk allergy (CMA). In a prospective, randomized, double-blind controlled study, full term infants with diagnosed IgE and/or non-IgE mediated CMA received a commercially available AAF (NEO; n=56) or an AA...

BACKGROUND The increasing prevalence of atopic eczema has been linked to the alteration of the Western diet, namely the reduced consumption of omega-3 (n-3) polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) and an increased omega-6 (n-6) PUFA intake. OBJECTIVES The aim of the pilot study was to determine the efficacy of dietary n-3 PUFA docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in patients with atopic eczema. METHODS Fi...

BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) may cause emotional distress and impairs the quality of life (QoL) in children and their families. OBJECTIVE We examined family QoL of children with AD and explored associated factors such as disease severity and psychosocial factors among parents of children with AD. METHODS Study participants were 78 children (1 month to 16 years old) diagnosed with AD an...

PURPOSE Food allergies can affect the growth and nutritional status of children with atopic dermatitis (AD). This study was conducted to determine the association between the number of sensitized food allergens and the growth and nutritional status of infants and young children with AD. METHODS We studied 165 children with AD, aged 5 to 47 months, and who visited the Atopy Clinic of the Seoul...

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been proven to be therapeutically effective against atopic dermatitis (AD) in preclinical studies. However, the safety and efficacy of MSCs against AD have not yet been investigated in a clinical study. To establish the safety and efficacy of human umbilical cord blood-derived MSCs (hUCB-MSCs) in AD, 34 adult patients with moderate-to-severe AD were enrolled i...

Background The natural course of atopic dermatitis (AD) in infancy, childhood, and adolescence is not yet completely known. Objective To investigate the prevalence and risk factors of atopic dermatits among 19-year-old Korean male subjects. Methods All 19-year-old Korean males must undergo medical examination for conscription. We precisely evaluated the prevalence of AD in three Korean prov...