National Eczema Week gets underway

National Eczema Week is running from 13-21 September, and with the number of people diagnosed with eczema now estimated to be one in five UK children and one in 12 adults, the condition is on the rise.

Eczema is a long-term chronic condition which can cause itchy, inflamed, dry, cracked and bleeding skin.

The condition can be triggered by environmental factors such as dust mites, grasses, pollens and stress as well as certain foods like cow’s milk, eggs, citrus, chocolate, peanuts and artificial colourings.

For more information and details about what’s going on during the week-long campaign, visit http://www.eczema.org.

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Jane Wolfe has worked in journalism since leaving University with a BA (Hons) in English in 1991, covering industries as diverse as energy, broadcasting, wellbeing and animal welfare. She first became part of the Natural Products News team in 1998 as a sub editor and freelance journalist before relocating to Greece in 2004. In 2013 she returned to the magazine as assistant editor, then deputy editor.