title: Understanding skin care and skin barrier function in infants.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Sandra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lawton
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D012879:Skin Physiological Phenomena