Eczema

Vitamin D may help reduce eczema in early infancy

Vitamin D may help reduce eczema in early infancy

By Nicola Gordon-Seymour

Routine vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy can reduce incidence of atopic eczema in the first year of life, according to researchers at the University of Southampton.

Vitamin D supplements may offer an alternative eczema treatment to steroid creams, long-term use of which can lead to skin thinning. ©iStock/champja

Review backs vitamin D supplements as eczema remedy

By Annie Harrison-Dunn

Sufferers of atopic dermatitis are more likely to have low serum vitamin D levels and vitamin D supplements could be a new way to combat the common skin condition, a review has said. 

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