Ania Stolarczyk, Nelissa Perez-Nazario, Sara A Knowlden, Ellen Chinchilli, Alex Grier, Amy Paller, Steven R Gill, Anna De Benedetto, Takeshi Yoshida, Lisa A Beck
Studies have demonstrated that bleach baths improve atopic dermatitis (AD) severity; however, the effects on itch, skin barrier, and cutaneous microbial composition are less clear. We examined whether bleach baths reduce itch, normalize skin barrier function, reduce S. aureus absolute abundance, and increase microbial diversity in adults with AD who were colonized with S. aureus on their non-lesional skin. This was an open label, non-randomized, controlled trial performed at a single academic center. Fifteen AD and five non-atopic healthy controls (NA) were instructed to take two bleach baths (0...
September 27, 2023: Archives of Dermatological Research