This content is machine translated New interdisciplinary consultation hour at UKBB Interdisciplinary against complex diseases Parents of children with a complex medical condition face significant challenges in their daily lives. The relief is all the greater when they do not have to attend many individual…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated How to proceed with chronic wounds? Assessment, dressings and adjuvant therapy Chronic wounds are a major challenge for primary care providers. The reasons for this are the diverse causes of wounds, the patient’s desire for rapid treatment success and, last but…
View Post 9 min Atopic dermatitis Pruritus and relation to barrier function Chronic pruritus (> 6 weeks of duration) is one of the most frequent skin complaints and occurs in a broad variety of diseases including dermatological, systemic, neurological, psychosomatic/psychiatric and gynaecological…
View Post 8 min Dexeryl® Skin diseases that respond to Dexeryl® Dexeryl® is a medical device for topical use and is composed of an emollient (softening and soothing effect) and hydrating cream (increases the water content of the skin). It is…
View Post 7 min Description of biometrological alterations Atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and ichthyoses and improvement in case of use of an emollient based on vaseline-glycerol The stratum corneum barrier is commonly described according to the “brick and mortar” model constituted respectively by corneocytes and intercellular lipids: the former are composed mainly by insoluble bundled keratins…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Immunological-allergological aspects Epidermal aspects The disease with two faces The term atopic dermatitis was introduced in 1933 to designate certain chronic eczemas occurring mainly in children, in order to emphasize their connection with allergic diseases, such as asthma and…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Biological treatments in dermatology Off-label indications This review, which is not exhaustive, covers the main dermatoses for which there is a relatively large literature on the effect of anti-TNF drugs. Biological treatments seem to be an…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Therapy with biologics How to react in case of cutaneous side effects? Since the discovery and introduction of the substance class of biologics, we have been able to achieve unprecedented therapeutic successes in the treatment of inflammatory dermatoses. The very specific action…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Auto-inflammatory diseases in childhood Recurrent episodes of fever as the main symptom Auto-inflammatory diseases are characterized by an increased systemic inflammatory response and are mediated by cells of the innate immune system. Children and adolescents are particularly affected. Typical for these altogether…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Interactions with drugs Most interactions are known and therefore avoidable What happens when two or more medications are taken at the same time? The answer is: there may be an increase or decrease in drug effects. In some cases this…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Therapy of chronic recurrent pyoderma Erysipelas and boils carry a high risk of recurrence At the 96th Annual Meeting of the SGDV in Basel, one of the topics was bacterial skin infections. Antibiotics remain first-line treatment options for both erysipelas and furunculosis. Beyond that,…
