Our researchers need you...

Have you heard of the FLAME study (Flares and Antibiotics in the Management of Eczema)?

This is a study which is aiming to establish whether some "infected" flares should be treated with antibiotics, or not.

NHS funded researchers based at the Universities of Bristol, Nottingham, Southampton and Portsmouth are working together to develop a study to find out how to best treat a child with eczema who has a "flare" of their condition. By flare, they mean that the eczema worsens despite using the regular treatments. One reason for this can be infection.

If you have one or more children with eczema, they really would like you to complete a short survey. They need as many people as possible to take part. Your answers will be important in helping decide how to study this particular problem.

There are 9 questions over 4 pages, and it should take no more than 10 minutes to answer them.

If you can help them, please go to the flame study survey site which can be found at:

https://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/primarycare/carersofeczema/

For any further information please email me at webmaster@nottinghameczema.org.uk or use the Contact Us page on the website.

Welcome to the new website for the Nottingham Support Group for Carers of Children with Eczema

Its been a while in the making but now it’s here. We think that it is a real improvement on the old site format which had served us very very well since 18 July 2005. Over the years the site has been prodded and poked with bits being added and bits being taken away, all of which has led to quite an unwieldy administrative task just to maintain it. So, out with the old and in with the new. We have added a number of new features as well as keeping the old faithful's.

Today we have some new features to share:

The questions that have been asked of our experts over the last year and answered exclusively to those on the Email Alert Service. You really should be on it!

Video Podcasts. These are videos of interviews given about the effects of being an eczema sufferer

Our profiles pages have been updated

We also have a page dedicated to the NICE guidelines relevant to eczema

The RSS and Audio feeds have been brought into the site.

The menus have been redesigned as well. At the top of each page is the title and above that are the 5 main groups. Below the title are the pages in that group. This means that you are never more than 2 clicks away from any page on the site.

We have also incorporated some selected pages from the National Eczema Society

We hope that you will use our sit to its fullest and any feedback would be warmly welcomed. Feedback can be left via the Contact Us page.

Thank you for your continued support. It really is appreciated. To enter the site, please click the Home Page link above. Its the "N" in the banner.

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