Borage Oil for Eczema Relief

Research suggests that borage oil, when examined as part of a broader category of complementary and alternative medicine therapies, may offer some benefit for eczema symptom relief in children, particularly when used alongside conventional treatment. The available evidence comes from a 2018 systematic review and meta-analysis that pooled findings from 24 randomized controlled trials involving over 2,000 children, though borage oil was evaluated as one of several CAM approaches rather than in isolation, making it difficult to draw firm conclusions about its specific contribution. The overall direction of findings was mixed, and the authors explicitly noted that the quality of the underlying evidence was low due to methodological weaknesses across the included studies. Safety profiles for borage oil specifically could not be well characterized, as adverse event reporting in the reviewed trials was insufficient.