Before I begin I strongly believe that berating a person for scratching their eczema is the worst kind of well meaning advice. Trust me, if you have eczema and it's in full force, you cannot stop scratching. And sometimes that is OK. Don't beat yourself up if you can't resist that horrible incessant itch that seems to live deep inside the skin, and only subsides when you've … [Read more...]
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Living in a house full of nuts
And I don't mean the people are crazy... haha, I mean nuts, particularly peanuts make an appearance on a regular basis where I'm living at the moment. I did grow up in a house with peanuts; my father used to make his own peanut butter, my siblings both used to eat nuts and even the eczema bath oil I was prescribed contained nuts - not surprising that I had such appalling … [Read more...]