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Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis) Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, is the most common chronic inflammatory skin disease. The condition occurs in 10 to 30 percent of children and 2 to 10 percent of adults in the United States. People with eczema have dry, itchy skin that can weep clear fluid when scratched.
Probiotic Skin Therapy Improves Eczema in Children, NIH Study Suggests. September 9, 2020. An experimental treatment for eczema that aims to modify the skin microbiome safely reduced disease severity and increased quality of life for children as young as 3 years of age, a National Institutes of Health study has found.
For example, if infected with herpes simplex virus, they can develop a severe skin condition called atopic dermatitis with eczema herpeticum. Those with atopic dermatitis should not receive the currently licensed smallpox vaccine, even if their disease is in remission, because they are at risk of developing a severe infection called eczema ...
NIH Study of Early Predictors, Mechanisms of Food Allergy and Eczema has Begun. March 19, 2021. A study to identify prenatal and early childhood markers of high risk for food allergy and atopic dermatitis, or eczema, as well as biological pathways that lead to these conditions, has begun.
Genetics. Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is caused by mutations in the WAS gene, which provides instructions for production of a protein called WASp. This protein plays an essential role in relaying signals from the surface of the blood cell to the cell’s actin cytoskeleton, the network of fibers that make up the cell’s structural framework.
NIAID supports targeted research to understand the underlying immune responses that lead to asthma. This understanding may aid the development of asthma prevention strategies and treatments to improve life for those already living with the disease. NIAID research focuses on understanding how environmental exposures interact with a person’s ...
Norovirus, a highly infectious virus that is the leading cause of diarrhea and vomiting in the U.S., has no approved therapeutics or vaccines to prevent its miserable effects. This is partly due to a lack of reliable animal models to study norovirus infection and predict how effective interventions would be in people.
Prion diseases are transmissible, untreatable, and fatal brain diseases of mammals. Their cause is highly unusual: The host’s normal prion protein can, for unknown reasons, malfunction and assemble into structured aggregates called prions that cause infectious brain disease. This process – which can be underway for years before symptoms ...
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are caused by pathogens transmitted from person to person through sexual contact. STIs can be caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. STIs have a devastating impact on adults and infants and affect millions of people in the United States annually. Infection with certain STIs can increase a person’s ...
Common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) is a primary immune deficiency disease characterized by low levels of protective antibodies and an increased risk of infections.