[Electronic Article] Understanding skin care and skin barrier function in infants.

Skin care practices involving the application of products to the skin are common. This article focuses on these aspects of infant skin care, the importance of skin barrier function and how the use of products and therapies applied to the skin can affect skin barrier function.  It also challenges current practice and tradition, and highlights the evolving body of research into practice and tradition.

Lawton, S. Understanding skin care and skin barrier function in infants. Nursing Children and Young People. 25(7)pp. 28 - 34.

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