pain (My Experience of Eczema)

Member Name: jl_kiwi

Product:	My Experience of Eczema
Date:	20/05/02 (540 review reads)
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Disadvantages: pain, restless nights, wounds

I am fifteen years old and i do still suffer from mild eczema. I remember i was told that i was first diagnosed with eczema as a baby, having eczema made my young childhood quite a misery and pretty much lowered my confidence in lots of things. Say for instance in PE i would be the only one standing there wondering if anyone was looking at my sore, red legs from constant itching. I would dread PE and try to put a plaster where ever i could. If anyone asked i would try and say i fell over, or something to that extent. I was also told that when i was a toddler, we had the decorators in and me being allergic to dust mite i came out all red and swollen and to top that i had an asthma attack - i was taken to hospital.

At night times i would wake up unable to sleep, it is worst when you itch your layer of skin off and it waters. Then you have to try and keep this wound from touching anthing else or sticking. This was especially a night mare come school time as i had to wear tights and come home time it would be painful to take them off.

Next time you get an itch try and leave it and see how long you can last then picture the unfortunate with eczema who suffer from at least 10 times the same but this itching remains in the same place until it gets just to painful to bear.

As a child i would bathe in these chinese medicine that my aunt would sent over in bulk form Hong Kong. Even my baths times were special until the age of 9 or 10. I was also not allowed large amounts of dairy products until i was discharged from the hospital at the age of 12.

During winter i suffered from cold sores and dry very chapped fingers that would crack open when i bend. During my time at Junior school i remember having a verruca. But having ezcema as well - this was a nightmare for me. Some how i got blisters as well and when i itched these they seemed to spread and my feet took ages to recover.

Only about a year ago i took up karate this was when
my ezcema had cleared up quite a bit. But karate only seemed to injure my feet and it was affecting me quite a bit when i was a bit put off by the kicking as i did not want anyone to see.

Now, at the age of fifteen my ezcema has cleared up but leave memories as i have quite a few scars where my ezcema used to be. I still get chapped fingers but it is not as bad. Also i remember that time that i visited my home land - Hong kong in order to get my citizenship and it required a thumb print, mine however was un recognisable from my skin peeling i was was sent home and told to return in two weeks to look after my thumb and heal it, HOW?

Prescription.
As a child on medication they gave me diprosone, oily as it was but it did help a bit. I also had to take this sickly medicine that was supposed to help my sugar levels or something like that because of loss of blood.

Being a teenager i did not suffer from terrible acne as i thought i would because of my ezcema, but, have quite soft skin on my face. I am thinking, is this because my dry skin levels out the pH's from oily skin teenagers get during puberty?

If you do suffer from ezcema i would advise you to try chinese medicine, if there are no chinese doctors where you live, you could try china town in London or the one in Manchester. I do not know why either, but the weather conditions in Hong Kong really seemed to help my ezcema when i visited there when i was a child. I tried many medications and they did seem to work. They may taste gross but they do work. In England i was on the same medication for years did it work? NO. Otherwise i would have healed as a young child not as a teenager. I tried chinese medicine in my later years of ezcema.

Also i have found that in order to get rid of a itch there is quite a quick way to relieve temporary itching. This was to run the patch under very hot water - tap water not boiling water!!! Very hot baths also seemed to help a bit
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Good Luck, do not let it ruin your life or stop you from doing anything that people without ezcema can do!

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