Scratching beneath the surface of a skin affliction

Young Isabel Fynn has suffered for years from the debilitating itch caused by eczema. Her mother Carol tells Helen O’Callaghan what lengths the family have gone to in order to ease her daughter’s distress.

For seven years, Carol Fynn has watched her daughter struggle with a condition that leaves her skin painfully inflamed, intensely itchy, cracked and covered in cuts. Isabel, 12, has atopic eczema, a non-contagious inflammatory skin condition that affects one in five kids and one in 10 adults here.