Article Highlights
- Beer Sheva’s Soroka Medical Center – Children with eczema have a 75% chance of being diagnosed with ADHD than children without eczema
- Proper treatment of eczema can increase the child’s quality of life
- Ensure that the skin is moist
- Study – included 1,740 children between age 0-18. 940 with eczema / 900 without eczema
- Those with eczema had a 7.1% rate of ADHD diagnosis
- Those without eczema had 4.1% rate of ADHD diagnosis
- Founding was published in Acta Dermatovenerologica Croatica (ADC) scientific journal
The results of this study show that atopic dermatitis, ‘skin asthma,’ is not just a disease which influences…the skin, but other things as well
Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/240449