Eczema is a very common allergic skin condition that is marked by inflammation and dry/itchy patches on the skin. Thousands of people have this condition (the most common form is atopic eczema) and are left with minimal solutions for this ongoing inconvenience.
However, a recent study by German researchers found that acupuncture has provided short-term solutions for atopic eczema–aiding skin inflammation as well as itching.
They found that the therapy, when done minutes after patients’ skin was exposed to an allergen (either pollen or dust mites), appeared to soothe subjective feelings of itchiness.
In addition, when patients were exposed to the allergen for a second time shortly after the acupuncture session, they tended to have a less-severe skin reaction, the researchers report in the journal Allergy.
The findings show that in this “experimental setting,” acupuncture seems to ease the itch of atopic eczema, lead researcher Dr. Florian Pfab, of the Technical University of Munich, told Reuters Health in an email.
For more details about the effects of acupuncture in this study, read the article from Reuters here.
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