Dear Colleagues. Do you find yourself with a patient sitting in front of you with skin lesions that you can vaguely classify as eczema? To further clarifications or above all also meaningful and side-effect-poor therapy however you feel already clearly more uncertain – all the more with children. Then this issue of DERMATOLOGIE PRAXIS will certainly suit you.
In many cases, you can already achieve sufficient to considerable success with external topical treatment. In addition to the right active ingredient, however, the choice of the appropriate galenic form is of decisive importance in many cases – especially for the care and treatment of dry skin. Here, the article by Prof. Christian Surber, renowned expert and lecturer in the field of dermatological galenics, offers you many useful and helpful hints for you in practice.
In another review article we bring you comprehensively closer to the special aspects of neurodermatitis in childhood. Dr. Mark Pleimes, senior physician of the Department of Pediatric Dermatology of the Children’s Hospital Zurich, which has been established by Dr. Lisa Weibel for several years, has summarized for you important topics that are frequently addressed in practice, such as vaccinations, trigger factors or useful clarifications. The authors, all of whom have many years of daily experience in the care of atopic dermatitis patients, have also compiled for you the most important concepts and many practical and concrete suggestions for the treatment of this frequent dermatosis, which often runs chronically intermittently, especially in young children.
Another real crux can be the management of chronic hand eczema. In addition to established methods such as topical anti-inflammatory treatment as well as phototherapy, systemic steroids, immunosuppressants and, more recently, a new systemic retinoid, alitretinoin, are used in severe forms. It is very gratifying that several experts in the field of hand eczema have come together to establish a consensus in Switzerland for the most appropriate therapeutic option in each case. Prof. Dagmar Simon has taken the trouble to summarize this consensus paper for you clearly and in a summarized form.
We hope that this issue will provide you with interesting and informative articles for your daily work, and we hope that you will find some new and useful knowledge in addition to the familiar ones.
With this in mind, I hope you enjoy reading it, also on behalf of the authors and editors.
With kind, collegial regards
