Kids with eczema may sleep poorly

- Kids with eczema - even mild eczema - may be more likely to have poor quality sleep than children who don't have this common skin disorder, a UK study suggests.

Even when kids with eczema weren't having active symptoms, they were still 41 percent more likely to have poor sleep quality throughout childhood than kids without eczema. When kids with eczema also had asthma or allergies, they were 52 percent more likely to have poor quality sleep throughout childhood even when they didn't have active flare-ups, the study found. And when children had asthma or allergies along with severe eczema flare-ups, they were more than twice as likely to sleep poorly.

Kids with inactive eczema reported these sleep problems about as often as children with mild eczema symptoms. And, scratching episodes only accounted for 15 percent of awakenings.

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