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Household bleach has a surprising new role: an effective treatment for kids' chronic eczema. The skin disorder starts with red, itchy, inflamed skin that often becomes crusty and raw from scratching. Kids may break the skin from scratching and get chronic skin infections that are difficult to treat, especially from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Researchers have discovered diluted beach baths drastically improve the rash and reduce flare-ups of eczema, which affects 17 percent of school-age children.

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I wonder if , like a lot of skin treatments, the positive effect of using the diluted bleach would eventually decline and simply become another irritant to the skin? Bleach is of course a highly toxic substance. I suppose short bursts of treatment are used to avoid this.

PJH