Cheilitis is a common inflammatory disorder of the vermillion and adjacent skin of the lips. A special type is angular cheilitis. The disease has a mixed etiology, mostly with bacterial and fungal components.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Emollients are the baseline treatment for mild or moderate atopic dermatitis (AD) to improve the epidermal barrier and provide anti-irritant and anti-pruritic effects. Emollient 'plus' can influence the skin microbiome of atopic eczema patients.
Objectives: To evaluate the benefits of using Emollient 'plus' to reduce corticosteroid consumption.
Vopr Kurortol Fizioter Lech Fiz Kult
November 2019
The problem of finding new ways for pharmacological prophylaxis and treatment of respiratory tract diseases is very relevant in public health. To eliminate hypoxia, many European and American clinics use carboxytherapy as an additional or alternative treatment. Carbon dioxide administration eliminates the sequels of oxygen starvation, by producing artificial tissue hypercapnia, which causes an increase in oxygen delivery and carbon dioxide removal from the tissues and then from the body.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA lip cream with special propolis extract GH 2002 at a concentration of 0.5% (199 patients) was tested against aciclovir 5% (198 patients) in the treatment of episodes of herpes labialis under double-blind conditions. Upon inclusion, all patients were in the vesicular phase.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFClin Cosmet Investig Dermatol
January 2017
Background: We speculated that an emollient supplemented with a biomass of nonpathogenic bacteria such as , grown in a medium containing thermal spring water (LRP-TSW); (LRP- biomass [LRP-VFB]), could have a beneficial effect for patients with atopic dermatitis (AD).
Patients And Methods: This double-blind, randomized, comparative study was conducted with 60 patients with moderate AD. Before starting the study, participants were pretreated for 15 days with drug therapy to improve their SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD) by at least 25%.