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My Experience of Eczema |
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25/05/02 (118 review reads) |
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Advantages: More awareness
Disadvantages: you name it!
When we were wee whipper snappers, my older sister had severe eczema all over her arms and legs and even on the back of her neck!
More so this caused her great distress because she also had acute asthma and coping with the 2 together when she was only 8 was not a great time of her life I must admit.
Once we were sent on a school journey to Dorset for a week and the headmaster had asked our mother to let us go too, she was very reluctant to let us go because of my sisters health problems.
He promised her that he would personally look out for us and the minute there should be a problem he would be immediately on the phone to alert her so she agreed to let us go. While we were out there we spent time in the outdoor pool but my sister wasn't allowed to go swimming as mum had given strict instructions that my sister musn't get wet!
Of course the school took that literally and wouldn't even let her wash or shower not even flannell wash by a sink!
Anyway aside from that her eczema did erupt while we were out there and almost on a nightly basis the poor thing needed her bandages constantly changed which was fine with me and the teachers but unfortunately in those days there was alot of ignorance around eczema and because of that fellow classmates shied away in disgust and made comments about not wanting to catch anything from her. This whole reaction was made alot worse even when the teachers did not allow her to wash at all for the whole week so kids assumed that it was because she was dirty and wouldn't listen to any explanations not even from their teachers!
We finally made it home at the end of the week and she vowed that she would never go away on another school journey again due to the humiliation that she had suffered.
My friends little boy has eczema now but I am happy to say that more people are aware and are educating themselves about eczema and that it is not just something which is infectious and contagious
and he has lots of little friends in his play group that know what he has but to them it's no big deal at the end of the day all they want to know is if he wants to come and play with them!
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- 19/08/02 your op would be easier to read if it was split into paragraphs with spaces between them. I do sympathise though - I have always suffered from eczema, although more severely now than I did when I was a child, people can be very cruel and although people are being educated into the horrors of this terrible condition, there is still a long way to go. I have had people publicly recoil from me because of the condition of my hands - mainly adults, but also children. it is good that ops like this can further awareness of the condition, but it would also have been useful for people to read a little more abut possible treatments for the condition.
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- 27/05/02 Your opinion would be easier to read if it had more punctuation in and was separated into paragraphs, but the information contained in it was useful. |
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- 25/05/02 This must be awful for a child to suffer. It is good that there is more understanding of this condition nowdays. I do hope that your sister improved as she got older. |
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