New guidance has advised the NHS to stop offering a certain type of eczema treatment to children.
Watchdog the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) said children should not be offered bath emollients after it had reviewed the evidence and concluded that they are not clinically or cost effective.
Evidence from the year-long Bathe trial in 2018 found that pouring emollient additives into the bath provided no additional benefit over standard eczema care. Nice said that while emollient bath additives do not make eczema worse, prescribing an “ineffective” product places “unnecessary burdens” on patients and carers in terms of obtaining and using the products.
