Eczema

[Jody]

Dream cream will make some but a small effect. If your skin is broken it hurts like hell. The doc gave me eumovate ages ago and my excema is totally clear. If I don't use of for 4 days (approx) it comes back. So I only have to use it ever couple of days in tiny amounts.

I would suggest keep using it just now. Try this;

1) A non-fragrant face wash with an exfoliant sponge on the areas you find most trouble.
2) Put on a tiny amount of Eumovate for the face and Betnovate on the rest of your body
3) Apply dream cream on top of the areas that are really ruff
4) Buy Lemon aid from benefit if the excema is on your face. It is approx £16 but it lasts forever and you just put it under foundation and on top of the mosturiser. The yellow pigment gets rid of the redness in your skin. Helped esp with my eyes.
5) If you have drank alot of alcohol, make sure you drink at least a pint of water before bed. The alcohol makes your skin irritable.

That's my advice

[Pantgirl]

Hmmm my Eumovate tube is almost finished Might have to go back to the doctors and see what they say. It's seriously horrendous and popping up in weird places it never has before - strange patches on my thighs I cry.

[Jody]

Originally Posted by Pantgirl

Hmmm my Eumovate tube is almost finished Might have to go back to the doctors and see what they say. It's seriously horrendous and popping up in weird places it never has before - strange patches on my thighs I cry.

Friction burn?

[Pantgirl]

Haha! Alas no just itchy ming. want to go get my legs waxed this week - will ma eczema affect this? gash.

[CollegeDropout]

Was mummified as a kid at night, then over the years it was going away. Then BANG one time at New Year's it came back with a vengeance, breaking out over my neck and my feet - a place where I never had it - and it was fucking brutal.

Now it isn't all that bad, feet still get mad itchy and the palms of my hand now get itchy

As for creams I use Cetraben and Doublebase, and Vaseline on the feet. 50/50 is good, but really greasy and I use E45 bath oil, which is actually the bees bollocks.

I long for the day where I will not have it, but alas I do not think that day will come.

[Jody]

Maddog 50/50?

Eyes have totally cleared up, arms are breaking out REALLY red.

[Tigger]

I've thankfully never had eczema but I do get a horrible patch of itchyness on my wrist when I get stressed. But Sky gets really bad eczema on the back of one of her legs. It's a wee shame when it flares up coz she scratches it all the time and it's really hard to tell her to stop. But the dream cream really does help her. Gets rid of the itching pretty much over night. Hope you all find something that works!

[CollegeDropout]

Originally Posted by Jody

Maddog 50/50?

Eyes have totally cleared up, arms are breaking out REALLY red.

My face is always unaffected, maybe a wee flare up now and then but never actually cut or anything. Though I tend to rub it a lot ....

[sarabee]

Arghh I've had it since I was a baby as well

Eczema on my arms at birth, went away when I was about 7, then my gran died and I got it on the backs of my knees (REALLY bad, like cracked/weeping etc), then after that had gone I went into 1st year and got it on my hands. It's almost gone, sort of disappeared nearly completely by 5th year and instead of going dry and cracked, it just goes tight and red now.

It's now reappearing a weeee bit on my arms and wrists. But meh. I went to see a dermatologist about it a wee while ago and she thinks I have both contact dermatitis and eczema.

Does anyone with it on their hands get really deep ridges in their nails? The dermatologist told me that this indicates when you had a really bad flare up of it - it irritates the nail bed and causes interrupted growth. She also told me that if you're stressed your eczema can get ridiculously bad, so try to chill out more, have baths etc when it gets bad

Originally Posted by Dynamo Fenn

i remember having it on my hands once and it was so bad i couldnt bend my fingers without it cracking and bleeding

I know the feeling, I had that for about 5 years

Originally Posted by Pantgirl

Mine has always been ok until recently..it's gone fucking mental I have it in places I haven't had it before and its taken over most of my arms so I look like a leper and feel ugly Eumovate cream calms the itch but it don't go away. Might go to the doctors in the morn to get a huge tup of Diprobase (used to use that yonks ago)

I used Diprobase as well, but because it's just an emollient I started becoming immune to it. Eumovate did nothing really :\

Originally Posted by bikuki

I get it intermittently (mostly on my legs, although a wee while ago I literally had it all over my body). Not found anything that really takes it away more than just time. Sucks majorly, though.

On top of that I also get contact dermatitis (very different skin condition) when I wera anything with nickel in it.
I hate my skin.

I really really hate it when you think it's going away and it just moves somewhere else


The one thing I did find (although obv everyone is different and it might not work for you) is this hand lotion by Bayliss and Harding. It looks like a ripoff of Molten Brown, is slightly fragranced and contains vitamins. It's AMAZING for using after you wash your hands, and it's really helped the eczema on my arms and anywhere else it appears.

£2 gets you a huge bottle - from New Look. I kid you not. It's worth a try.

[Peatbog]

ugh its horrrrrible

mins is ok just now, wee bit on a couple of fingers &elbows but not too bad

terrible when i was wee, and for about a year in 5th year or somethng i had a terribekl patch on my neck, had to wear a dressing on it all the time, people always said 'HICKEY'

bastards

[DoNotResus]

Mine is so not ok at the moment, all over my hands, my arms and for the first time ever I think, around my eyes. I look like I have a ski mask on Its stressed related when it goes there apparently, and buying a house and breaking up with girlfriend of 2 years won't be helping much Any tips?

[bikuki]

My neck's broken out recently, although I think that's a reaction between my sweat and the metal clasp on my necklace - seeing as it only really irritates me when I'm at the gym.

[sarabee]

I keep getting a rash on my chest when I come out of the shower, it's so annoying

[bikuki]

I used to break out something rotten on my face, chest and neck whenever I had a really hot shower - I think it was brought on by heat, or sweat.

I think I'm allergic to my sweat

[Pantgirl]

I'm still a state...got much better this week then got much worse last night. I think i'm allergic to Mick

Must join a doctors in Hyndland (I have no time at all though) as I
a) want to look nice for the Final Year Dinner in 2 weeks time and
b) want to look not like a leper on the FInal Year holiday in the middle of June.

GAAH
*buys new skin*

*edit* oh god yes..when I have a shower I seriously look like a leper - big huge red wheals all over my body *boak*