Dr Fukaya Steroid Experiment and Photos of People Healed From Topical Steroid Addiction

This week has been a really good week for blog posts and I thought I would bring your attention to two of my favourites this week. In my opinion, they are must reads and once you have read what they are about, you will see why.

The first important blog post is from Tommy's Skin of Rose blog. Tommy is a brilliant asset for us in the TSW community because she is able to translate a lot of the Japanese documents for us into English. A lot of pioneering work and research is being done in Japan by the doctors Sato and Dr Mototsugu Fukaya. We are grateful for their work, but as much of it is in Japanese, we are in need of translators. Tommy helps bridge the gap. Thank you Tommy!

Anyway, this week she has written about what happened when Dr Fukaya did an experiment on himself and applied some steroid cream to his arm! Don't worry folks, he survived, but his results are really interesting on a cellular level and show that just because we can't see any damage to the naked eye after using steroids, there is actually a LOT going on at a cellular level. Thanks Dr F for being brave and doing this experiment for us!

My second important blog is by Kristina, over on the Scratchy Monster blog. She and the rest of the Itsan board have been working very hard to build links with the National eczema association and this has led to them creating a task force to investigate topical steroid addiction.

Her post is important because it contains lots of photos of healed children who have come through TSW. These little "vets" are an inspiration and encouragement to the rest of us that we will beat this thing. Thanks to everyone who submitted photos to Itsan to show the NEA. I love looking at the healed skin photos.

For more healed skin photos head on over to the Itsan gallery. The pictures remind us that we will heal, so if you are feeling a bit down and depressed, the photos can be a real boost.

I hope you enjoy reading my pick of the blogs. Thanks to all the TSW bloggers who work very hard raising awareness.