The Eczema & TSW Guide
The Eczema & TSW Guide · Free until Wed 23 September
If steroids work, why do you keep needing stronger ones?
It is the question we hear most often, and the answer is more interesting than "they stopped working."
24 pages on eczema and topical steroid withdrawal. What is actually driving it, what steroids do and do not do, what withdrawal looks like, and what recovery involves month by month.
World Atopic Eczema Day was Monday. To mark it, the guide is free until Wednesday 23 September. It is $55 in the shop.
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What is inside
Why it develops, the filaggrin connection, why Māori and Pasifika are affected at higher rates in Aotearoa, histamine and mast cells and why you are so itchy, and the skin microbiome. Including the number most people find hardest to believe: staph is present in around 10% of the general population, and up to 80% of people with eczema.
What steroids actually do, why they can seem to stop working, and what happens for some people when they come off them. TSW is its own condition, and you can have eczema and never experience it. Includes the four patterns: red mask syndrome, red sleeve sign, headlight sign and elephant wrinkles.
Our approach, nutritional foundations, CAP Therapy and HEALITE LED, the four stages of recovery, and what to expect month by month. Plus a two-page low-tox checklist you can start on tonight.
Who wrote it
Constance is the skin therapist behind Sol Studio in Mount Maunganui. She works with eczema, dermatitis and topical steroid withdrawal, and she uses Cold Atmospheric Plasma in the studio.
She is not a doctor. The guide works alongside your GP or dermatologist, not instead of them, and it is clear that whether and when to stop steroids is a decision to make with your health provider. It also tells you exactly which signs mean you need medical care rather than a skin appointment.
On CAP Therapy
Cold Atmospheric Plasma is ionised air. A device passes energy through the air just above the skin, producing reactive oxygen and nitrogen species that already exist in the body and act as signalling molecules. It runs cool, and it does not injure the skin to get a response.
That last part is why we use it here. Most things that work well on skin work by causing a controlled injury and letting repair do the rest. When a barrier is already broken, another injury is the last thing it needs. It is not a cure, and the guide says so.
Free until Wednesday 23 September.
$55 in the shop from the 24th. Two fields and it is yours.