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Treating Children with Eczema

Access

12 months

Format

Online Webinar

Duration

1 hour

Presenter

Dawn Whitten

Atopic eczema is a chronic inflammatory skin condition that affects up to 30% of children in Australia.

What are the long-term health impacts of eczema on children? How can parents and caregivers support their children with eczema? What can we do as practitioners to support the lives of patients with eczema?

Atopic eczema is a relapsing inflammatory skin condition that can be lifelong. Management of eczema is often focused on infants, with many school-aged children undertreated. Uncontrolled eczema has a significant impact on the quality of life of the child and their family.

Join Australia’s leading Naturopathic Medicine Practitioner Dawn Whitten in discovering the role of nutrition in the pathogenesis, prevention, and management of childhood eczema.

Topics covered include:
  • Understanding what’s new in childhood eczema
  • Reasons why children experience eczemaStrategies to support eczema

MEET YOUR PRESENTER

Dawn Whitten

BNat (Hons 1st), IBCLC, FNHAA 
Dawn Whitten is a Naturopath and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She is passionate about protecting and nurturing the microbiome of the next generation and has a broad base of clinical experience with a focus on women’s health through pregnancy and beyond, as well as infant and toddler health. She has been in clinical practice for 18 years and is part of Goulds Natural Medicine, a busy apothecary, clinic and associated herb farm in Tasmania, Australia. 

Dawn obtained a Bachelor of Naturopathy with First Class Honours from Southern Cross University. Her Honours topic was within the field of herb-drug interactions. She is published in the peer-reviewed literature and has contributed to clinical textbooks (Including the Breastfeeding chapter in the recently published Hechtman L Ed, 2020, Advanced Clinical Naturopathic Medicine 2020, Elsevier).  

Dawn coordinates two units within the Evidence-based Complementary Medicine post-graduate program in the College of Health & Medicine at the University of Tasmania. She is part of the research team at Probiotic.Advisor.com and a clinical director at Goulds Natural Medicine in Hobart. 

Dawn Whitten – Probiotic Advisor 
References
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