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Eczema (young people)

  • Overview
  • What is Eczema?
    • What is eczema? A medical overview
    • Eczema symptoms: what does eczema look and feel like?
    • Getting a diagnosis and eczema changing over time
    • What are the different types of eczema?
    • Where on the body? Eczema and different areas of skin
    • What causes eczema?
    • Eczema triggers: what can make eczema worse?
  • Getting help from medical professionals
    • What help can I get from medical professionals for eczema?
    • Repeat visits to medical professionals for eczema
    • What makes for a supportive doctor/nurse when you have eczema?
  • Treating and Managing Eczema
    • Eczema treatments: leave-on emollients and wet wraps: overview
    • Using leave-on emollients for eczema and side effects
    • Eczema treatments: bath oils, soap and shampoo replacements
    • Eczema treatments: using steroids
    • Eczema treatments: topical immunosuppressants
    • Eczema treatments: phototherapy (light therapy)
    • Eczema treatments: antihistamines
    • Eczema treatments: immunosuppressant tablets and immunotherapy
    • Alternative and complementary therapies, supplements and home remedies for eczema
    • When eczema becomes infected, antibiotics and anti-fungal treatments
  • Everyday life with eczema
    • Emotions and having eczema
    • Diet, alcohol and eczema
    • Impacts of eczema on exercise, social life and hobbies
    • Sleep and eczema
    • Family life and eczema
    • Friendships, intimate relationships and eczema
    • Managing symptoms, treatments and triggers at school/university
    • Emotions and support for eczema at school/university
    • Money and eczema
    • Jobs, work and eczema
  • Support and advice to others
    • Sources of information and support about eczema
    • Messages for other young people with eczema
    • Messages for medical professionals treating young people with eczema
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    • A doctor speaks
  • Resources and Information
  • Credits

Eczema (young people)

Profiles - A doctor speaks

Dr Tess McPherson

Dr Tess McPherson is a Consultant Dermatologist, Senior Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Oxford and member of the British Society of Paediatric Dermatology.
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