Clinicians should consider potentially harmful ingredients such as haptens when using moisturizing emollients to prevent atopic dermatitis or food allergy, according to a review published in Clinical and Translational Allergy.
This careful selection is especially important when treating young children, Klaudia Ryczaj, MD, of the department of pediatric pneumonology and allergy at Medical University of Warsaw in Poland, and colleagues wrote.
The review included 12 clinical trials published through December 2020 involving a total of 16 different emollient preparations that were applied as