Understanding skin care and skin barrier function in infants
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Understanding skin care and skin barrier function in infants

Sandra Lawton Nurse consultant in dermatology, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Skin care practices involving the application of products to the skin are common. This article focuses on these aspects of infant skin care, the importance of skin barrier function and how the use of products and therapies applied to the skin can affect skin‑barrier function. It also challenges current practice and tradition, and highlights the evolving body of research into practice and tradition.

Nursing Children and Young People. 25, 7, 28-33. doi: 10.7748/ncyp2013.09.25.7.28.e358

Correspondence

sandra.lawton@nuh.nhs.uk

Peer review

This article has been subject to open peer review

Conflict of interest

The BEEP study was funded by the National Institute for Health Research under its programme grants for applied research funding scheme (RP.PG.0407.10177). The views expressed in the article are those of the author and not necessarily those of the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research or the Department of Health

Received: 07 February 2013

Accepted: 18 April 2013

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