A lotion enriched with the body's own beneficial bacteria may help protect against skin infections such as eczema, a new study claims. Researchers from University of California, San Diego in the US took bacterial samples from patients' skin, picked out certain species and cultured them in a lab, and then put these bacteria into a lotion. They found that, for five patients with a skin condition, the bacteria-rich lotion protected them against infections by destroying harmful germs on their skin.
The findings show that "bacteria have a very important role to play in our immune defence," said Researcher from the University of California, San Diego. Researchers looked at patients with eczema, a condition which causes itchy, red, inflamed skin, 'Live Science' reported. They found that the patients who had persistent eczema tended to be deficient in the friendly bacteria that kill a type of…
