Claim · according to Coridum · status published
Claim C-0010
A single intervention study suggests that using an air purifier at home for 24 weeks reduces the severity of atopic dermatitis in children.
Structure
- Outcome
- Atopic dermatitis (eczema)
- Intervention
- Air filtration and air purifiers
- Population
- children
- Relation
- decreases · SCORAD index −18.5 % after 24 weeks
- Evidence grade
- D · single-study
- Caveat
- 18 patients and 6 controls, without blinding; the study reports no separate effect of the filtered pollutants; air pollutants fell in both groups but the outcome is reported for the atopic dermatitis group alone, so there is no controlled comparison of the outcome; immunoglobulin E and eosinophils did not change; the authors call it preliminary
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Counter-evidence
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