High blood pressure medication for adults also helps children with butterfly skin

13 Puede 2025, 08:15

Mía Millán is seven years old and one of the 500 people born in Spain with epidermolysis bullosa, a rare genetic disease — also known as butterfly skin — that causes painful sores that remain open for years at the slightest impact. Science has recently brought good news for these patients with a gene therapy, approved in February by the European Medicines Agency (EMA), that heals 70% of wounds within three months. But children like Mía can also benefit from advances in other areas of medical research. Losartan, a drug used for decades for hypertension, has shown good results in healing butterfly skin lesions in studies.

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