The Calm Skin Guide
How to Manage Childhood Eczema
Published on 11. April 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-80081-595-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
A full guide to help parents navigate their child's chronic condition * 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 ItchysaurusMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 134 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
384 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80081-595-7 (9781800815957)
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E-Book
04/2024
Souvenir Press Ltd
€16.49
Available for download
Persons
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.
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.