Are skin equipment for assessing childhood eczema any good?

CONCLUSION: Skin pH (using Mettler Toledo), SH and TEWL (using Delfin equipment) correlated well with various clinical symptomatology scores. Less acidic pH appears to be associated with worse clinical scores of symptomatology, and increase usage of topical antibiotics, These findings not only support the supplementary usage of equipment in aiding objective documentation of clinical symptomatology in eczema therapeutic research but also the advocacy of maintaining more acidic skin and avoiding alkaline soap and emollient products. PMID: 29460656 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29460656?dopt=Abstract

Source: Journal of Dermatological Treatment - February 22, 2018 Category: Dermatology Tags: J Dermatolog Treat Source Type: research