| Nowadays every time a new drug is launched on the | | | | give the sensation of burning skin and people have |
| market, the reporters rush to announce on the | | | | complained about this fact. This sensation generally |
| evening news that a breakthrough has been realized | | | | disappears as skin heals but scientists need to work |
| in the health field, without considering if this is a real | | | | more on correcting the disadvantage this creams |
| thing or not and so creating an unnecessary mass | | | | bring. In children aged less than two years these new |
| agitation. | | | | creams are prohibited but it is more likely that after a |
| These breakthroughs are not as often as they are | | | | few years of intense researching they will be |
| presented to be and only from time to time | | | | improved and parents could use them on small |
| scientists can say that they have really discovered | | | | children too. |
| something exceptionally for out health. For example in | | | | The good thing about these new creams is that they |
| 2001, tacrolimus was approved to be used on the | | | | are highly effective and they work even in those |
| marked, under the brand name of Protopic. This | | | | patients in which the topical steroids are worthless. |
| medicine is used for treating atopic dermatitis, is the | | | | This does not mean that the steroid based on |
| first nonsteroid treatment and seems to be quite | | | | creams will not be used any more, this means that |
| effective. Nowadays another resembling drug has | | | | people will have more solutions to their problems. The |
| been launched on the market, known as pimecrolimus | | | | old creams are still useful but they need do be well |
| with the brand name of Elidel. | | | | prescribed considering the age of the patient and the |
| At first these drugs were used as immune | | | | affected area. |
| modulators and they were meant to suppress the | | | | Unfortunately these new drugs, like the steroid |
| immune system’s activity in patients who | | | | creams will not cure the eczema for good because |
| suffered an organ transplant to avoid a rejection of | | | | this affection seems to be inherited and will probably |
| that organ by the body. When used as creams on | | | | reappear after a few years or so. By monitoring the |
| the skin they do not interfere with the immune | | | | skin condition continuously the doctor will prescribe |
| system of the body and they do their job without | | | | the needed treatment at time and the patient will |
| causing atrophy or thinning of the skin like cortisone | | | | resolve his problem more easily than before especially |
| creams do. | | | | if he has more treatment options to pick from, due |
| The bad thing about this new medication is that they | | | | to the continuous progress of science. |