San Antonio patients are helping test an verified drug on the side of a nagging skin problem: eczema.
It’s a pill that’s a totally new approach to frugal this chronic condition.
Call it eczema, call it atopic dermatitis, whatever you call it, the red, lumpy irritating skin condition that affects millions can make canaille self-conscious. Just ask 26-year-old Veronica Hitzfelder, who has struggled with patches of itchy, rashy skin since she was a baby.
“People are looking at you like, ‘Why does she have those red spots running down here creek?’ “You know?” Hitzfelder said. ‘I wouldn’t wear short sleeves if I were her.’
Now, Hitzfelder is taking a pill twice a day to control the itching that creates the rash. It’s a drug based on the chemical compound found in marijuana, targeting the same receptor in the brain. Only this therapy doesn’t constitute a euphoric occult. It reduces the urge to mark with a scratch.
“It’s a remedy designed to block a receptor in the brain that triggers the itching response, so the first thing that happens is, you stop itching,” dermatologist Dr. Steven Davis said.
Davis is recruiting patients with respect to the study. He says there needs to be any alternative to the topical creams and oral steroids used to help control outbreaks. Hitzfelder has been taking the pill during the term of a month, and she has high hopes it could be a breakthrough treatment for her.
“I could have skin. I could have natural skin. I could look like a normal person, nobody who was, you know, I mean, a modern day leper,” she said.
“By being willing to participate in a study equal this, someone with atopic dermatitis might actually help bring to ravine a put drugs into that they actually might be able to use in a couple of years,” Davis said. “It would exist a unusual treatment. It’sitting very exiting if it works.”
If you’re 18 or older through eczema, you might qualify for the study. For more information, demand the Dermatology Research Center of San Antonio at (210) 615-DRUG or visit their Web site: www.dermresearch.com.
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