No Moisture Treatment is a specific regimen formulated by Dr Kenji Sato in Hannan Chuo Hospital in Osaka, Japan, to help his patients get through topical steroid withdrawal (TSW). It involves radically restricting the amount of moisture the body is given, whether by drinking it or by using emollients.
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Who is Dr Sato and what is NMT?
Sato is known as ‘the leader against topical steroids.’ NMT was translated into English by Tokuko Kameda, one of Dr. Sato’s former patients who completely healed her TSW with NMT. She hoped that translating this to English would help TSW sufferers around the world.
What is Nono moisturizing treatment?
No Moisturizing Treatment was founded by Dr. Kenji Sato after he closely monitored his TSW inpatients 24/7 at Hannan Chuo Hospital in Japan. Dr. Sato is known as ‘the leader against topical steroids.’ NMT was translated into English by Tokuko Kameda, one of Dr. Sato’s former patients who completely healed her TSW with NMT.
What is no moisturizing treatment (NMT)?
What is no moisturizing treatment (NMT)? No Moisturizing Treatment was founded by Dr. Kenji Sato after he closely monitored his TSW inpatients 24/7 at Hannan Chuo Hospital in Japan. Dr. Sato is known as ‘the leader against topical steroids.’
Why would someone do a no moisture treatment?
This treatment was specifically designed for those of us who were diagnosed with eczema, treated with topical steroids, developed a topical steroid addiction, and who have stopped all steroid usage and are now going through TSW.
What is NMT treatment?
NMT utilizes specific massage therapy, flexibility stretching, and home care to eliminate the causes of most neuromuscular pain patterns. This specific and scientific approach to muscular pain relief will help to bring about balance between the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system.
How long does it take to recover from TSW?
An analysis of numerous medical journal articles and studies related to TSW found that TSW recovery does often take more than three months.
What is moisture withdrawal?
What is moisture withdrawal? It's when you stop slathering moisturizers all over your skin. The idea behind this is to teach your body how to moisturize itself once again. When your skin is dependent on moisturizers, it forgets how to take care of itself. So it stops producing oil and cortisol.
Does drying out eczema help?
If you can't get it (and it is online), then try keeping your eczema dry, that's what it needs, not moisturizing, but keeping dry. Keep it out of water if you can. Water feeds the fungal yeast. It will turn to dust in a week or so.
Is Neuromuscular Therapy real?
Neuromuscular Therapy is a highly-specialized form of manual therapy that corrects pain and dysfunction by treating trigger points, muscle adhesions, and fascial (connective tissue) patterns.
Will I ever heal from TSW?
TSW might cause symptoms that last weeks, months, or years. People with the condition will recover at different rates and respond to treatments differently. Since the condition is so rare, there is not an average time estimate for recovery or a known outlook.
How is TSW caused?
TSW is a skin condition that can develop from the frequent use of potent steroids. The condition usually develops within days to weeks after stopping the use of topical steroids, or it can manifest as a worsening rash which then requires stronger and more frequent application of topical steroids to control it.
What happens when you stop using steroid cream?
When topical steroid medication is stopped, the skin experiences redness, burning, a deep and uncontrollable itch, scabs, hot skin, swelling, hives and/or oozing for a length of time. This is also called 'red skin syndrome' or 'topical steroid withdrawal' (TSW).
Can skin atrophy be reversed?
The short-term treatment skin atrophy can be reversed, while the long-term one, which results in striae development is indeed permanent damage. In short, topical GC affects stratum corneum components, subsequently affecting skin barrier integrity.
Should I moisturize topical steroid withdrawal?
Moisturise Your Skin Using a facial serum or body oil with natural botanical oils is the good way to keep your skin moisturised without irritating skin further during topical steroid withdrawal.
Does topical steroid withdrawal cause hair loss?
TSW is not for the faint of heart.” The potentially debilitating symptoms of TSW can include burning, weeping, flaking, shedding, peeling, spreading, swelling, redness, wrinkling, thin skin, pus-filled bumps, cracking, itching, nodules, pain, insomnia, hair loss, shivering, fatigue, depression and disability.
Links
Healthy Skin Show ep. 180: How Hormones Impact Your Immune System + Skin Health w/ Heather Zwickey, PhD
Jennifer Fugo, MS, CNS
Jennifer Fugo, MS, CNS is an integrative Clinical Nutritionist and the founder of Skinterrupt. She works with women who are fed up with chronic gut and skin rash issues discover the root causes and create a plan to get them back to a fuller, richer life.
