This study assessed the impact of wearing a specialized T-shirt, the Comfiknit Atopic Eczema® T-shirt, on atopic dermatitis (AD) patients during summer and winter. Ten adults with AD participated in a 4-week open-label pilot study during each season. Results showed improvements in AD symptoms, including reduced Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI), Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM), and itch Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) scores. The T-shirt increased stratum corneum water content (SCWC) without affecting skin pH or bacterial cultures. Overall, wearing these T-shirts helped prevent AD exacerbation year-round, suggesting they may contribute to skin homeostasis.
Approval of the research protocol: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Clinical Research Review Board of Nagasaki University (Reference number: 20101902).
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University has recently published an academic paper recommending Comfiknit functional T-shirt for people suffering from a common but chronic skin condition called atopic dermatitis (AD).
Co-authored by several professors from the Department of Dermatology at Nagasaki University, the paper was presented at the 71st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Allergology on Oct 7-9, 2022.
The release of the publication followed a clinical trial of nine AD patients wearing specially-designed T-shirts (Comfiknit Atopic Eczema T-shirts) over a total of eight weeks in the summer and winter seasons in 2020. (Ref. Japanese Journal of Allergology Vol. 71 2022, p. 735)
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