Living with eczema: A life-altering and expensive condition and affects 1 in 5 children
Jeannette Brazel’s 15-year-old son just wants to get on with life — understandable, given the inroads eczema made on his life as a young boy. “From the moment he was born, he started to scratch,” says Howth-based Jeannette.
At his six-week check-up, covered in a rash that doctors diagnosed as infantile dermatitis, Jeannette was told this was common, he’d be fine. Instead the eczema got worse. “He’d wake at night, tearing at his hands and face, the sheet covered with blood. I’d bathe him, use [a] steroid and an emollient. It’d clear slightly but once the steroid was finished, it’d come back worse than ever.”
