Skin Deep: Simplifying Practice Guidelines for Children With Atopic Dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin disorder in children. Often called eczema, AD is a papulosquamous eruption often characterized by pruritus and then the typical distribution and morphology of the rash (Saavedra  et al., 2013). Thus, an idiom often used by health care professionals to describe AD is “the itch that rashes.” Two leading organizations jointly authored an update on AD in 2012 (Schneider et al., 2013), and a third published several guidelines for the management of AD (Eichenfield et al. , 2013, 2014, 2015; Sidbury et al., 2014).
Source: Journal of Pediatric Health Care - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Practice Guidelines Source Type: research