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Cabbage wraps for eczema, psoriasis

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Cabbage wraps for eczema, psoriasis

Could something as simple and natural as cabbage help your eczema? It seems that the humble green has healing properties that can help eczema and psoriasis too when applied directly to the skin.

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Pale skin or dark. What does your eczema look like?

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Pale skin or dark. What does your eczema look like?
Eczema can make the skin itchy and inflamed whatever the skin tone, but it tends to redden lighter skin or make darker skin purple, grey or ashen.

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Tilt your head when using your asthma inhaler

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The key to successfully opening your airways to ensure that the asthma medication reaches your lungs is to either stand or sit upright.

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Histidine supplement shows promise for eczema

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Complementary or alternative treatments from collagen to B12 are often touted as the best natural therapies for problem skin. For eczema, supplements of L-histidine certainly seem to show promise. 

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Gene editing to end cat allergies

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  There have been some useful advances in the search for a solution to the miseries of allergic reactions to our beloved pets. A recent Allergy Best Buys blog post  looked at the promising development of  a vaccine against dog allergies. And now scientists are using cutting-edge technology to make allergic reactions to cats a thing of the past. It has been known for some time that a single gene and its protein Fel D 1 are the primary cause of 90 per cent of cat allergies. Researchers have mostly focussed on ways to neutralise the effects of the protein. But scientists at...

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