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Course Overview
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What You'll Learn
Explore the links between food, diet, and atopic dermatitis (AD). Learn to differentiate food allergies from sensitivities, understand elimination diets, and review key supplements and botanicals. Examine the mind-body connection and integrative approaches for managing AD. Enhance your clinical practice with effective, evidence-based strategies!
Target Audience
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of clinicians and non-clinicians involved in the care of patients within atopic dermatitis.
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Your CE Source ensures balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all our educational programs. In accordance with this policy, Your CE Source identifies conflicts of interest with its instructors, content managers, and other individuals who are in a position to control the content of an activity. Conflicts are resolved by Your CE Source to ensure that all scientific research referred to, reported, or used in a continuing education activity conforms to the generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. Your CE Source is committed to providing its learners with high-quality activities that promote improvements or quality in health care and not the business interest of a commercial interest.
The faculty reported the following financial relationships with commercial interests whose products or services may be mentioned in this activity:
| Name of Faculty | Reported Financial Relationship |
|---|---|
Peter Lio | Grants/Research Support Consulting Fees (e.g. Advisory Board) Speakers Bureau Ownership Interest / Stock Holder Royalty Other |
Apple Bodemer | No financial relationships to disclose |
Raja Sivamani | Grants/Research Support Consulting Fees (e.g. Advisory Board) Ownership Interest / Stock Holder |
The content managers reported the following financial relationships with commercial interests whose products or services may be mentioned in this activity:
| Name of Content Manager | Reported Financial Relationship |
|---|---|
Venita Sivamani, Planner | LearnHealth founder and shareholder |
Planners at Your CE Source | No financial relationships to disclose |
All other faculty, planner and/or content managers have nothing to disclose nor do they have any vested interests or affiliations. All conflicts of interest have been resolved.
Physician Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Your CE Source and LearnHealth. Your CE Source is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation
Your CE Source designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Method of Participation
Participants must 1) read the learning objectives and faculty disclosures, 2) study the educational activity, 3) complete the post test by recording the best answer to each quiz question.
A statement of credit will be issued only upon receipt of a completed activity and post-test with a score of 70% or better.
This activity is jointly provided by Your CE Source and LearnHealth.
Questions about CE accreditation or CE certificates related to this course, please contact us via email at [email protected] . For all other questions, please contact [email protected].
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Welcome to module 11 as we begin building our integrative dermatology toolkit!
Food, Diet, and Atopic Dermatitis
This course will review the role that food allergies and sensitivities play in atopic dermatitis as well as cover diets that have potential therapeutic benefit in atopic dermatitis.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Differentiate between food allergy and food sensitivity
- Explain an elimination diet
- Review the most allergenic foods
Botanicals and Supplements
There is growing interest in the use of botanical and supplement based approaches for skin care. This session will review some of the emerging supplements and botanicals and discuss their evidence.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Evaluate the mechanism of action and evidence for the use of L-histidine
- Recall the probiotics that have evidence for use in atopic dermatitis
- Describe how herbs and supplements can be incorporated into a treatment plan
Psyche in AD
Beyond the basic pathophysiology lies a rich and complex world of the mind-body connection in AD. We will examine the literature and review the key findings and their implications for clinical practice.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the role of psycho-behavioral medicine in AD
- Outline some of the potential benefits of applying this approach
- Identify some of the pitfalls and limitations of this approach
Integrative Approach to AD
An exploration of using conventional therapy along with approaches from many other traditions, including TCM, herbology, and natural approaches.
After completing this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe the potential difficulties with integrating multiple forms of therapies
- Outline some of the potential benefits of integrative therapeutics
- Identify some of the pitfalls and limitations and knowledge gaps
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Food, Diet, and Atopic Dermatitis
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Botanicals and Supplements for AD
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Psyche in AD - Peter Lio
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Integrative Approach to AD
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Post-Quiz
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- Questions
- 6
- Passing Score
- 70%
- Average Score
- 89%
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