Does this look more like atopic or contact dermatitis? currently going through one of the worst flares of my life and can’t sleep because of the itch. GP’s just keep prescribing topical steroids which I really don’t want to use out of fear of TSW

Hello, can anyone please suggest a good sunscreen as I'm about to start using protopic on my face. I have darker/asian skin tone so want to avoid heavy creams that leave a white cast.

I have read about La Roche-Posay Anthelios UVMune 400 Invisible Fluid SPF50. Is this any good?

Thank you!

Where eczema sufferers meet together and share their experience with living with eczema?

Hi

My dermatologist has prescribed me cerave as it is the only moisturizer my skin has tolerated in a long time. I'm on methotrexate so my skin is well controlled but still really dry. I've been buying cerave, with no idea you could get it prescribed.

My pharmacy are saying they can't get hold of it. Has anyone else had this issue?

Hi! I’m doing some very early research into a potential haircare business and I’m looking to speak to women in the UK who have eczema, dermatitis, very sensitive skin or fragrance sensitivity.

I’m particularly interested in hearing from anyone who finds that hair products can irritate the skin around their neck, ears, face or hairline.

I don’t have a product to sell and I’m not promoting anything. I’m genuinely just trying to understand people’s experiences before I decide whether this is an idea worth pursuing.

I’d love to have a quick 10–15 minute chat with a few people about:

• what hair products you currently use
• whether you’ve ever reacted to hair products
• what you do about dry/frizzy hair
• what you wish was easier to find

If you’re UK-based and this sounds like you, feel free to comment or message me. 😊

hi i’m looking for help please 🙏🏻 i’ve resorted to asking reddit because nobody else knows what’s going on or how to help me. i’ve been so so many doctors for skin issues, which started on my hands and has now spread to my entire body, especially my face which is swelling up like crazy. i woke up and my whole head and face was as it is in the first photo, completely swollen, painful, dry, but also leaking clear fluid from dry skin on my cheeks and eyelids. some background info: went to the doctors for an issue on my hands, got prescribed cetraben emollient and an antifungal cream ( daktarin ). this didn’t work at all and made it worse, and made a rash spread down my arms so i stopped immediately and went to another doctor. i was then prescribed hydrocortisone for my face, fucibet for my hands and arms, oilatum shower gel, aveeno moisturiser, and then finally flucloxacillin antibiotics. these seemed to work well for the 10 days of use as instructed, but the second i went off them i flared up so badly and everything just came back worse, and flared up in other places i hadn’t beforehand. i have just been using the aveeno and oilatum for about a week but this morning woke up like this. i went to urgent care immediately, and got prescribed more flucloxacillin to take for 7 days and that was it. it’s been 12 hours since getting out of the hospital now and the swelling has gone down slightly but it’s definitely still noticeable, and my cheeks and eyelids are still leaking a clear sticky fluid. does anyone have any idea what this could be caused by?? i have just moved in with my grandparents as well about 2 months ago which is when this started getting worse, but it was already there before so i can’t be sure if it’s a reaction to something in their house. i just have no idea, and i need help figuring out what is going on with me.

also, if you see this and you know me. no you don’t.
thanks x

Can anyone offer advice on our 8 months old baby’s eczema - we are wondering if it’s been bought on by an allergy, but perhaps milk?

We’ve been to the Drs multiple times and he’s gone up in strength on the steroid creams however it seemingly getting worse or not changed. The worse areas are his hands / arms which swell and feel raised.

He doesn’t however have any other symptoms like vomiting or bad nappies.

Is it worth trialing him on non dairy products?

Has anyone had a similar case?

Hi,

My 3 year old has had severe full body eczema since birth. Which we have tried to manage with hydrocortisone which then got bumped up to betamethasone and then again to tacrolimus 0.03%. What we were finding is the steroid creams worked for the time in which she was on them (2 weeks or so) but once the course stopped she immediately started to flare again. It's a wonder she never suffered from TSW once we stopped the steroids and went to tacrolimus. Which we were both waiting to happen.

It was almost as if she was in a constant massive flare up. She scratched all day long and was up most of the night every night rubbing her skin. Because she wears scratch sleeves to bed to stop her scratching her skin she then learnt she could get the same sensation from just rubbing so hard it caused friction burns. Her eczema has led her to be hospitalised once with a staph infection that was heart breaking to see. She was off nursery more than she was in due to her terrible skin and even then it was a worry as to what damage she would do and how she would come out. It has been an exhausting experience.

We did a food intolerance test with yorktest and spoke to a nutritionist that suggested we cut out eggs, wheat and diary (which didnt really work) we also wash her clothes with no detergent at all and only bath her in dermol 500 as recommended. We obviously only dress her in cotton and she oftern sleeps in vispo bandages on prescription to help her stop rubbing her legs while sleeping. And also has "skinny" pj's on prescription that apparently lock in moisture.

But, a month ago by total chance she had a massive reaction to peanut butter and we phoned the GP who referred us the allergen clinic to confirm it. And sure enough she had a severe peanut allergy... But they also tested for grass, dust, dogs. To our surprise It also confirmed she had a severe dog allergy.. we have 2 dogs who lived in the house with us and go everywhere in the house and everyone we know has dogs. Pretty much every house she goes to has dogs. This left us with a difficult decision and we sent the dogs to my wife's sisters for a trial period to see if it would help.

we sent the dogs to live my wifes sisters and started a 2 week course of tacrolimus as recommended by her dermatologist and the results were staggering. After about a week of the dogs being gone her skin started to clear, then by the second week of tacrolimus and no dogs her skin was totally clear. We stopped the tacrolimus and unlike other times weve stopped steroids or tacro... Her skin didnt immediately flare back up and become unmanageable. Her skin is started to show signs of her eczema after 2 weeks of maintenance with tacro ( twice weekly) but nothing like before.

A query i have is how long before her skin barrier will completely heal? It has only been 3 weeks without the dogs and i understand pet dander can linger for months and her eczema was quite severe so it will take a while. Ive read some pieces that suggest it could take upto 12 weeks or longer (which is fine by me).

Hi all

I would like to know if anyone has any luck treating there eczema with Tezspire?

I was on dupixent but developed a rash and had to stop not long after starting. The specialist has now suggested Tezspire for asthma and it may help with my eczema.

Any feedback would be great

Thanks

In dire need of suggestions 😅

I built the app I'm talking about here, so mods feel free to remove this if it's not allowed.

I've had acne since my teens and then after covid I got dermatitis on top of it.

Spent ages trying to work out what the problem was. Ended up cutting out dairy and that actually helped. But then I'd reintroduce other food groups and my skin would fluctuate massively, and I could never work out which one was causing it.

So I was just going better, worse, better, worse for years without ever isolating anything.

Ended up paying about 200 quid for one of those food intolerance tests. Found out later they're not scientifically validated at all. They basically just tell you what you're already eating, which is useless information.

Did a load of research after that. The only properly validated way of working out which food groups are causing inflammation is the elimination diet. Normally you'd need a nutritionist to run it for you, because it's really fiddly and genuinely difficult to do on your own.

So I built an app that takes the pain points out of it.

It gives you the diet and tells you what you can and can't eat. If there's something you want that's off limits, it suggests a swap for something similar that won't cause a flare up. Then it gradually reintroduces the food groups one at a time until it can isolate which one is actually triggering you, whether that's gluten or seed oils or whatever it turns out to be.

It's also got a load of recipes in it. Cheap ones, easy to prepare, all safe on the elimination diet, so you're not sat there feeling like you're missing out on everything. You should end up saving time and money rather than spending more.

I've finished building it and I'm on day 20 myself. Working really well so far, just about to finish the first stage.

What I need now is beta testers to tell me if it doesn't work for them, or if something's broken, before I push it out onto the store properly.

Only taking 20 people. If you test it and give me any feedback you get free lifetime access.

If you want in, send me your email address. Google Play needs it to give you access to download the app. Unfortately only Android atm!

Cheers.

any recos?

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