Severe Atopic Dermatitis and Respiratory Allergies Controlled by Cyclosporine Monotherapy in a Child: A Case Report

Atopic dermatitis is one of the most common skin diseases in childhood. It is characterized as inflammatory and chronically relapsing skin disease with skin dryness, erythema, crusting, and lichenification. Severe atopic dermatitis management can be challenging as some patient fail to respond to standard treatment strategies. We presented the case of 10 years old boy who suffered from severe brittle atopic dermatitis from infancy later accompanied by asthma and allergic rhinitis with sensitization to food and aeroallergenes. From the first point of view it seems as a trivial case in daily practice of allergists, except that multiple allergies were successfully and safely controlled by monotherapy with systemic cyclosporine for 6 months in a young boy and the positive effect was maintained after the drug was stopped.