ABSTRACT
Patients teach us so many lessons. One of the more basic ones was taught to me by the mother of a child with atopic dermatitis. Her child's eczema was flaring again. This had been going on for some time, and I was not the first dermatologist to whom she had brought her child. In collecting the history of the problem, I asked what soap she used to bathe her child. She said lvoryN. Surprised, I asked if that was what the previous dermatologist had recommended. "Yes," she said. "He told me to use
DoveTM or Ivory™."
