Adele Newman
Age: 30
Career: Barmaid
When did you cease using topical steroids: July 2015
What type did you use: Prednisone. Eumovate, Elecon, Betnovate,Trimovate.
What is your favorite product for comfort? Aveeno skin relief lotion and vaseline
What is the hardest thing to deal with during this condition? The pain and being unable to move somedays. Not being able to look after/do things with my 2 kids the way I used to.
What is the first thing you will do when healed? Take my kids swimming, do as much activities as I can with my kids, and treating myself to new clothes that don’t have to be cotton and long sleeved!
Tessa
Age: 3
Career: Being a toddler
When did you cease using topical steroids: September 2015
What type did you use: OTC hydrocortisone mostly, Triamcinolone .1%
What is your favorite product for comfort? Zinc oxide cream
What is the hardest thing to deal with during this condition? Nerve pain and itching at night. Hardest for me as her mother: seeing my baby suffer so much and feeling powerless to help her.
What is the first thing you will do when healed? We’ll travel without worrying about her allergies, dress her in shorts in warm weather, get her to play in the ocean again and reassure her that she was brave and strong through a rough ordeal.
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