Children maintained daily
therapy for several years, during which time they were closely monitored
via skin, blood, and immunity tests.
The delivery of drugs transdermally (through the
skin) is a practice used in medicine to avoid the risk or inconvenience of intravenous
therapy, to lower loss of absorption as a drug passes through the gastrointestinal tract, to lower metabolism of the drug by the liver, and to provide a more targeted application (such as a topical non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug delivery
via patch vs. swallowing a pill).