If you suffer from eczema than you know how distressing it can be.  Your skin is constantly irritable and inflamed.  What most people tend to do in this situation is run directly to the doctor for some expensive prescription cream that may or may not give relief.  Instead, try analyzing your environment — it’s free.  I know, analyze my environment?  Yes, your everyday environment is what triggers eczema inflammation most of all.  According to Skin Care News, “80% of eczema is caused by contact with harsh and toxic common household chemicals and environmental pollutants” this means, becoming anal retentive with your surrounding environment may be the real key to relieving the symptoms of eczema.  “One doctor, the head of a hospital’s atopic eczema unit, has had great success in treating eczema without drugs by incorporating

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Medical Breakthrough In Eczema Susceptibility, Dundee University

"Professor Irwin McLean and his team from the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing at the University of Dundee, together with Dr Alan Irvine in Dublin, have used a groundbreaking new method to examine the filaggrin gene. The team made a major breakthrough last year when they reported that defects in the filaggrin gene can cause dry skin, eczema, eczema-associated asthma and other allergies. Their continued work has now shown that within the gene there can be several faults and that eczema sufferers of different ethnic backgrounds will have different faults within the gene…"

[ Via MedicalNewsToday.com ]