Live Without Eczema

The Handbook for Adults and Older Children

 

Part 3 - Follow-up

 

 

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3.1 The Treatment Levels

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 Once healing has been thoroughly accomplished, continue with emollients as necessary, discontinue topical steroids after hidden healing is judged complete, and use habit reversal only when needed - but from now on ... beware of relapses!

 

3.2 Acute flare-ups

The fluctuations in the severity of long-standing atopic eczema are now replaced by only short episodes of relapse.

 

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Once healing has been thoroughly accomplished, continue with Level 1 treatment only, as necessary — but beware of relapses!

 

3.3 Features of relapse

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LOOK at, and FEEL the skin daily during convalescence. Recently healed chronic eczema remains unstable for several weeks …

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 3.4 Zap the relapse

When an acute relapse is identified — TREAT IT!

Help STAMP OUT chronic eczema...

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Remember!
Itch will go if relapse is treated promptly.

 

3.5 Regime for acute relapses

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As convalescence progresses the skin becomes more stable ...

 

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Look at the skin:


Is there redness, is it dry, rough or itchy?


• The more cautious you are
• The sooner you begin your treatment
• The stronger steroid you use
• The more consistent you are with emollients at the beginning  of treatment


Then...


• The sooner the skin will heal
• The less steroid will be used
• The less trouble you will get with eczema, and with side effects from both eczema and steroids

 

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Then there is only the predisposition to eczema to live with.

 

Click here for your Follow-Up Schedule: complete this with your practitioner.

 

Click here for Follow-up Tips

 

Please Note: Part 3 can usefully include follow-up reviews at six weeks and six months.

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