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AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

BACKGROUND: The severity of atopic dermatitis (AD) has been reported to be reduced by dietary eliminations in a subset of patients with AD. AIMS: To assess the reduction of the severity of atopic dermatitis in infants and children after eliminations of certain dietary items. MATERIALS AND METHODS: T...

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Autores principales: Dhar, Sandipan, Malakar, Rajib, Banerjee, Raghubir, Chakraborty, Saswati, Chakraborty, Jayanti, Mukherjee, Susmita
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Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101317
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.53187
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author Dhar, Sandipan
Malakar, Rajib
Banerjee, Raghubir
Chakraborty, Saswati
Chakraborty, Jayanti
Mukherjee, Susmita
author_facet Dhar, Sandipan
Malakar, Rajib
Banerjee, Raghubir
Chakraborty, Saswati
Chakraborty, Jayanti
Mukherjee, Susmita
author_sort Dhar, Sandipan
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description BACKGROUND: The severity of atopic dermatitis (AD) has been reported to be reduced by dietary eliminations in a subset of patients with AD. AIMS: To assess the reduction of the severity of atopic dermatitis in infants and children after eliminations of certain dietary items. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study group comprised of 100 children with atopic dermatitis. Their severity of itching, surface area of involvement, and SCORAD index were measured. Patients who did not have any systemic disease or were not on systemic corticosteroids were included in the study. Selected patients were advised to strictly adhere to a diet excluding milk and milk products, all kinds of nuts and nut-containing foods, egg and egg-containing foods, seafish and prawns, brinjal and soyabean for a period of 3 weeks. Instead of these avoided items, the food items to be included freely to maintain proper nutrition were dal and dal products, rohu fish, chicken, and fruits. All the preintervention parameters were measured again after 3 weeks. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant reduction in severity scores after dietary elimination alone. CONCLUSION: Dietary elimination helped to alleviate symptoms and signs in a subset of infants and children with AD.
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spelling pubmed-28071612010-01-25 AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN Dhar, Sandipan Malakar, Rajib Banerjee, Raghubir Chakraborty, Saswati Chakraborty, Jayanti Mukherjee, Susmita Indian J Dermatol Short Communication BACKGROUND: The severity of atopic dermatitis (AD) has been reported to be reduced by dietary eliminations in a subset of patients with AD. AIMS: To assess the reduction of the severity of atopic dermatitis in infants and children after eliminations of certain dietary items. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study group comprised of 100 children with atopic dermatitis. Their severity of itching, surface area of involvement, and SCORAD index were measured. Patients who did not have any systemic disease or were not on systemic corticosteroids were included in the study. Selected patients were advised to strictly adhere to a diet excluding milk and milk products, all kinds of nuts and nut-containing foods, egg and egg-containing foods, seafish and prawns, brinjal and soyabean for a period of 3 weeks. Instead of these avoided items, the food items to be included freely to maintain proper nutrition were dal and dal products, rohu fish, chicken, and fruits. All the preintervention parameters were measured again after 3 weeks. RESULTS: There was a statistically significant reduction in severity scores after dietary elimination alone. CONCLUSION: Dietary elimination helped to alleviate symptoms and signs in a subset of infants and children with AD. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2807161/ /pubmed/20101317 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.53187 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Short Communication
Dhar, Sandipan
Malakar, Rajib
Banerjee, Raghubir
Chakraborty, Saswati
Chakraborty, Jayanti
Mukherjee, Susmita
AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title_full AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title_fullStr AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title_full_unstemmed AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title_short AN UNCONTROLLED OPEN PILOT STUDY TO ASSESS THE ROLE OF DIETARY ELIMINATIONS IN REDUCING THE SEVERITY OF ATOPIC DERMATITIS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN
title_sort uncontrolled open pilot study to assess the role of dietary eliminations in reducing the severity of atopic dermatitis in infants and children
topic Short Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2807161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20101317
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.53187
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