The Calm Skin Guide

The Calm Skin Guide: How to manage childhood eczema
by Jae Rance and Amber Hatch


A friendly guide to understanding, managing and living with child eczema

Eczema affects 1 in 5 children, and it can be especially upsetting for children under ten who cant understand why their skin is so itchy, sensitive and easily damaged.

The Calm Skin Guide offers an overview of all the treatment approaches on offer, to equip you with your own management plan for your child. It includes clear guidance on:

• - Eczema and the itch/scratch cycle
  - Doctor and pharmacy-based treatments
  - Alternative treatments and how to use them
  - Identifying triggers in the home like dust,
  humidity, skincare products, detergents and foods
  - The relationship between eczema, asthma and allergies,
  and how to manage these conditions together
  - An emergency flare-up chapter - what to do first
  With tips on washing and laundry routines, practical ideas for ensuring comfortable, itch-free sleep, and guidance from GPs and dermatologists, here is friendly, researchbased advice to help you keep your childs eczema - and the distress resulting from it - calm, soothed and under control.