Skin care interventions in infants for preventing eczema and food allergy

CONCLUSIONS: Based on low- to moderate-certainty evidence, skin care interventions such as emollients during the first year of life in healthy infants are probably not effective for preventing eczema; may increase risk of food allergy; and probably increase risk of skin infection. Further study is needed to understand whether different approaches to infant skin care might prevent eczema or food allergy.PMID:36373988 | PMC:PMC9661877 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD013534.pub3

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 14, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Maeve M Kelleher Rachel Phillips Sara J Brown Suzie Cro Victoria Cornelius Karin C L ødrup Carlsen H åvard O Skjerven Eva M Rehbinder Adrian J Lowe Eishika Dissanayake Naoki Shimojo Kaori Yonezawa Yukihiro Ohya Kiwako Yamamoto-Hanada Kumiko Morita Emma Source Type: research