Health care Information and resources - Essay Example

mothers who may be at home with their young children, may go down this route as they have the time and resources to research for this alternative advice. Therefore, a 25 year old mother will have many other resources available to her if she is not satisfied with the treatment, or the results of the treatment that her 3 year old child is currently receiving from the family GP. The best way to obtain information on childhood eczema and to find out what different treatments are available if the individual is not satisfied with the treatment their child is receiving from their GP, in the World Wide Web.

Here the parent can find numbers for helplines, such as the National Eczema Society (NES) and NHS direct and their official websites and suggestions for treatment, also on the internet the parent can find alternative treatments to those offered by their GP, from qualified complementary practitioners or advice from online forum from other parents, or natural alternative treatments.   The first two resources are from official websites, these are the National Eczema Society and NHS direct give medical advice given by dermatologists, GP’s who specialise in eczema and dermatology nurses (NES, 2009).

However, the NES (2009) do also provide a fact sheet on complementary medicine. The NES (2009) is also written by people who have personal experience of eczema themselves, and is aimed sufferers and their carers. They advocate the use of emollients and topical corticosteroids, as the most effective treatments to control eczema, with advice on possible side-effects or adverse reactions to these treatments (NES, 2009). However, while they describe different types of eczema, it is then obviously down to the parent to try and understand what type of eczema their child may have.

The NHS (2009) online advice is very similar to NES (2009) describing types of eczema and likely symptoms. They also give advice to treatments parents can use at home to help their child, and practical