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MD, PhD

Can hypochlorous acid products be useful for staphylococcus aureus decolonization and can they be sprayed on the scalp?

Atopic Dermatitis

The simple answer is yes. There's multiple studies that show that hypochlorous acid, and there's a number of products on the market, OTC products such as lasersin, that could go through the office. There's a levicin that can be also prescribed. But the data shows very clearly that they have a very high degree of eradication of staph aureus and really multiple different bacteria, not just staph strep and others. And yes, it's very nice on the scalp. I can tell you the other thing that works very nice for are conditions such as polyculitis and even acne. And acne. You can use this as a wipe down because it does is really destroys c. Acnes, number one. And number two, it's anti inflammatory. So those aspects go together. I tend to use product epicin for that because it's a higher concentration of hypochlorous acid.