Children Skin health education
A hydrotherapy treatment is a good time to learn how to better manage your condition on a daily basis, improve your quality of life or simply talk to other hydrotherapy patients with the same condition. The Avène Thermal Centre offers you a choice of Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) programmes for personalised support or unit workshops to be chosen according to your needs and desires.
Our Therapeutic Patient Education programme
Our TPE programme: EczA'Gère
This programme is intended for adults, adolescents and children with atopic eczema. The goal is to better understand this disease in order to improve your daily life and quality of life. It takes place over approximately 8 to 12 hours during the 3-week course of treatment.
This programme was developed in collaboration with French experts in atopic eczema, atopy schools in Lyon, Montpellier, Toulouse and Nantes.
Approved by the Occitanie Regional Health Agency.
*Programme Payant, non pris en charge par l'Assurance Maladie
Programme content* :
A ONE-ON-ONE INTERVIEW UPON YOUR ARRIVAL
GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL EDUCATIONAL SESSIONS
The topics proposed are:
- Where does it come from and how long will it last?
- How can I better control my skin's hygiene and hydration?
- Why treat eczema?
- How do I manage my daily life with eczema?
Itching, stress, diet, self-image, lifestyle
AN ASSESSMENT BEFORE LEAVING
The dates of this programme are set in advance, remember to book
Our unit workshops
Throughout your child's course of treatment, you will have the opportunity to attend unit workshops together, to provide information and help you to live better with your child's condition on a daily basis.
Thanks to sessions adapted to the child, they will be able to learn the right hygiene techniques, learn how to apply their cream on their own, and find tips to better manage periods of itching or even stress.
Take advantage of these sessions, which are also an opportunity to talk and share experiences
Hygiene and Hydration
By playing with Coco the ladybird and Leo the leopard, your child will learn:
- What should be avoided and what should be preferred when washing
- Why and how to moisturise your skin
Application of emollient
Two techniques are presented to motivate children to apply their cream every day:
- A rhyme: "Applying cream while having fun" for fun application: click here to watch the rhyme
- Massage: "Applying cream while relaxing" for comforting application: click here to view the tutorial
Alternatives to scratching
By playing with Coco the ladybird and Leo the leopard, your child will discover new habits and techniques to stop "traumatising" their skin and limit scratching on a daily basis
Creation of the "anti-scratch" box
This workshop is dedicated to children, allowing them to create and personalise their own "anti-scratch" box. In this way, the child makes the alternatives to scratching their own, transforming the effort of no longer scratching into a game.
Relaxation
During this workshop, you will share with your child a moment of complicity and relaxation. You will discover exercises that are easy to reproduce at home to help your child relax.
Teens Art therapy
While customising a T-shirt with a positive message on it, teenagers create bonds, exchange ideas and share their experiences of their illness.
Medical make-up and concealer
This medical make-up technique will allow you to conceal your skin blemishes discreetly, whether on the face or on the body, and is open to everyone: girls and boys.
Food, an ally for the health of your skin
Optimise the health of your child's skin by looking at the dietary factors that influence it: microbiota, anti-inflammatory diet, pro-inflammatory diet.
Our Conferences
The conferences we offer are important opportunities to exchange ideas and understand the dynamics of care, the effects of sport on health and, ultimately, how to better manage your own situation.
"Welcome and information meeting on the hydrotherapy treatment in Avène" to find out all about Avène Thermal Spring Water, its properties, its history, the hydrotherapy process and treatments. An opportunity to ask any questions you may have...
"Physical activity and health" discusses the health benefits of physical activity and sport
