Conventional treatment plus DLE

Conventional treatment: oral Cetirizine 0.25mg/kg, every day, for 4 weeks; chlorpheniramine 0.35 mg/Kg, daily divided in 3 doses, for 4 weeks; and topical Methylprednisolone 0.1% over affected skin area, every 12h for 10 days, then every 24h for 10 days, then every 48h for 10 days and suspend;

Dialyzed Leukocyte Extracts as Adjuvant Treatment: oral DLE (Transferon) (2mg/5mL), then every day for 5 days, and then every 72hrs to complete one month.

Conventional treatment plus placebo:

oral Cetirizine 0.25mg/kg, every day, for 4 weeks; chlorpheniramine 0.35 mg/Kg, daily divided in 3 doses, for 4 weeks; and topical Methylprednisolone 0.1% over affected skin area, every 12h for 10 days, then every 24h for 10 days, then every 48h for 10 days and suspend; plus oral placebo, every day for 5 days, then every 72hrs to complete one month.

Paediatric patients with diagnosis of atopic dermatitis according to Hanifin and Rajka and evaluated with SCORAD as moderate atopic dermatitis were included. Patients were randomized and received in a double blind placebo-controlled treatment:

Group 1: Conventional treatment plus DLE Conventional Treatment: oral Cetirizine 0.25mg/kg, every day, for 4 weeks; chlorpheniramine 0.35 mg/Kg, daily divided in 3 doses, for 4 weeks; and topical Methylprednisolone 0.1% over affected skin area, every 12h for 10 days, then every 24h for 10 days and then every 48h for 10 days and suspend; plus oral DLE (Transferon) (2mg/5mL), every day for 5 days, then every 72hrs to complete one month

To determine clinical outcome by SCORAD.

To evaluate immunophenotypical changes, on peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) before, at day 14, and end of treatment.

Immunophenotypical changes in this study are defined as changes in CLA and CD103 expression on PBMC; and changes in frequency of CD4+CD25+FOXP3 regulatory T cells, before, at day 14, and at end of treatment.