Living With Eczema

living with an eczema

Eczema- skin disease/problem/condition, usually dry and itchy.
-It is not contagious

Food allergies are more likely to cause eczema flares in infants and to people with server eczema. Symptoms can developed soon after eating an offending food or up to several days later, and may include: itching that tends to get worse at night, increased dryness, redness and swelling.
Nothing is more frustrating than trying not to scratch your #itchy_skin, particularly if you have eczema especially in public. Well for me, it was not only frustrating because i was in public but even at home, nobody understood how it feels like to have eczema, because they never had it. "Hey!, stop scratching just pat it",so I'd also try patting but it would get worse, then find myself scratching the dry, itchy area again, "
You see, you've scratched yourself again after being told not... now it's bleeding, go take your prescribed ointment and apply it"- really!, so they thought,me, patting, applying the prescribed ointments on my itchy skin really eased the itch? All because of frustration and people not understanding how it feels like,I'd scratch myself even more, become emotional but tell myself that i can't breakdown not infront of everyone...continue scratching myself till i see blood coming out of the exfoliated areas that's when I'd stop scratching only because it hurt.

'Sores,blood,swelling,bandages, quarterly injections, antibiotics'- were part of my life, at the age of 7, i was already used to pains, not even crying when being injected, well that i stopped at the age 5. With all these tragic things happening to my body, there was only one source of incoming, mom and i depended on Dad since he was the only working. O, my poor parents, even though the situation was tough they still took me some dermatologists, in town, out of town and across the the province,they did that for me, because they wanted me to be better, they wanted to eradicate eczema from my body, they begun to lose hope, i stopped getting the quarterly injections, antibiotics and not they would buy those prescribed ointments at the pharmacy over the counter, everytime the pharmacists would tell us the samething, "Bath twice a day using this, apply that at night and this in the morning " fine we followed the instructions but still i saw no difference, i was getting worse, the sores, my clothing would stick on them, the cist smelled awful. There was a time when i even thought i was rottening up.
Living with eczema, has made me to have a low self-esteem especially when i was still young I'd always isolate myself from my peers, always assumed that everyone had something negative to say and that today has made me to be very defensive.
"It will outgrow"- every dermatologist's famous words