May

17

The Rise Of A New Prescription Drug For Eczema

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Coming out with new drugs or medications are big business for pharmaceutical companies.  With the controversy still raging on about Elidel, comes a new medication called EpiCeram. 

Here is the news about EpiCeram, the new prescription drug being studied.
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070425005516&newsLang=en

I tried to look for information as to what EpiCeram contains.  It seems that there aren’t much.  But here is what is being said about this product…

“However, unlike steroids and immunomodulators, both of which have well recognized undesirable side effects and usage restrictions, EpiCeram™’s non-steroidal formulation has a very favorable safety profile and does not have the duration of use restrictions or pediatric patient age restrictions of these other classes of prescription products. ”

If it is not steroid or an immunomodulator, I wonder how this formulation actually works to address eczema.  Hmm…..guess we will have to just keep tabs about this product…

May

11

Bacteria Can Help In Eczema Treatment

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It appears that bacteria can play an important part in an eczema treatment. News source: 
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/04/bacteriahacking

“Probiotics (pills containing bacteria) have resulted in complete elimination of eczema in 80 percent of the people we’ve treated,” says Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno Jr., a practicing physician and former member of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy.

In a recent study, Kaarina Kukkonen, a University of Helsinki allergy expert, and her colleagues gave a probiotic containing four strains of gut bacteria to 461 infants labeled as high risk for developing allergic disorders. After two years, the children were 25 percent less likely than those given a placebo to develop eczema. The study was published in the January issue of Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

Apparently, it is important to get good quality probiotics.  You wouldn’t want those that are no good. Studies indicate that bacterial imbalances are associated with irritable bowel syndrome, post-surgical infections and type 1 diabetes.

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