It's so weird how in the other areas I have eczema in, it appears to be darker then my normal skin color. But when I look at my face, the areas that I had eczema in got lighter and not darker. I had this for a big while and I'm not sure why it caused this to my face. My skin in my face is very fragile and gets stretched out if I don't mosturize. Any recommended skincare products that could help fix this??

I did not have eczema as a child, my derm is telling me because of that… this is not eczema.

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Background: around 2 months ago my left eyelid turned dark red, along with a few spots under my eyes on both sides. DOES NOT ITCH , but swollen, painful, feels hot.. has some scaling.

I do have a fragrance mix 1 allergy , my derm thinks this is allergic contact dermatitis related. But I am very careful with my products and only stick to products on my safe list. Prescribed me a steroid, it worked in a few days.. the second I stopped it came back, rinse , repeat. We changed to treat like seb derm with an anti fungal cream, has not helped at all. Next step is an antibiotic.

I am still learning a lot about eczema in my own time and thought I’d grab thoughts/ experiences here. Thank you!

Hi all!

My 20 month old has had eczema since he was about 4 months old. The last few weeks it has become unbearable for him. He is itching so much he's bleeding. I have messaged the doctor & they have a referral into the allergist but we can't get in for over a month.

We currently have a steroid cream & aquaphor that we use. I do wet wraps at night where I can - body legs feet but his poor hands are so bad and he won't keep gloves on.

He just digs at his flare up spots - feet, knees, hands, and wrists.

I am honestly at a loss what to do for him. Any suggestions would be so helpful.

I’ve always had really dry skin but i've recently started developing eczema around my eyes and sometimes lips. I was hoping to get some good makeup recommendations. I hate how my makeup looks so dry and creasy. Suggestions such as foundation, concealer, mascara, eyeliner, blush, anything helps!

My eczema on my face has almost completely healed, but I have really apparent smile lines due to my past eczema. They were never like this until I got it. Especially if I smile or laugh for too long, it creases even worse. I'm not even the age to have wrinkles, and it makes me feel I'll age terribly😭 Does anyone struggle with this too?? Are there any products/skincare I should use to minimize this?

I have eliminated the most likely triggers for my eczema and I am yet to see any improvement. Is it possible my eczema has caused more new allergies? Will it go away when I’ve eliminated everything that could possibly trigger it?

my main issue with my eczema rn is that it gets rlly red even tho it may not necessarily be super dry. the only thing that helps it is betnovate rd but im not supposed to use that on my face for more than 5 days and whenever my face gets red again im soooo tempted to use the steroid cream even tho i shouldnt :(( does anyone have tips for managing redness naturally? moisturising alone doesnt seem to help

I’m new to the eczema world having my first little flare up a couple years ago. Now, I’m dealing with it with my 5 month old son who has it pretty much everywhere. We were told not to bathe him everyday, and to apply a cream and aquaphor on top whenever he looks dry. I’ve been fighting to get it cleared up on his eyes and it never seems to improve. Today however, I just used the cream and haven’t put any aquaphor on top and it already seems like it’s doing much better…. any ideas as to why that is?! Is he just sensitive to the aquaphor or was it trapping in bacteria not allowing itself to heal??

researching for my young adult daughter who has really suffered this year with 2, (possibly three starting today) herpeticum outbreaks and severe eczema. She has a cold sore today, is it possible to just get a cold sore or does it mean herpeticum is imminent?

Also, been reading about everyone using hibiclens for eczema, doesnt it sting? Make you more itchy? Would hypochlourous spray work just as well?

when i was fifteen i wrote:

“I want to be an actress and a singer but if the industry tears people apart for being a few pounds over 100, what will they do to me? I can work for years on writing and recording and auditioning for things and learning instruments but my biggest fear is that even if I am incredibly talented nobody will want me because I have such gross hands and I can't wear makeup.”

reading that made me want to cry. i pretty much abandoned my dreams of being a musician because of my skin, and now it’s ten years later and all i think about is how good i could be at music stuff by now if i’d stuck with it. i still have gross hands and can’t wear makeup, but i also feel my musical knowledge slipping away and there’s so much more i could’ve learned but didn’t. i am getting back into music now, but i guess i hadn’t realized how much my skin held me back from pursuing things, or how early those feelings really started.

all this to say: if there’s something you’re not doing because of the effect of your eczema on your self worth, don’t be like me. life is meant for enjoying shit, not for putting limitations on our own joy.

Every single day for the past 6 month or so, I’m waking up in the middle of the night.

My body feels really hot and I feel itchy all over. Not sure which is causing which but I’m just so done with this.

And I have a hard time going back to sleep once I wake up. Using the bathroom, putting on more lotion/cream/vaseline because my body feels dry and cracked from heat/scratching, and then trying to cool down wakes me up completely and on top of that, i’m now hungry so i’m dealing with that too.

This is really affecting my work now because i’m always so tired and have a hard time waking up in the morning.

I don’t drink coffee, alcohol, use any kind of substances, and I always sleep with a fan on. I use a really thin blanket (cooling blankets didn’t feel good on my skin), and even stopped wearing shirts to bed. I also have one of those cooling mattress although I don’t think it really helps because I have protective sheets over it and bed doesn’t really feel all that cool.

I tried taking sleep meds before but it bad a bad side effect of making my nasal congestion 100 times worse. Lol

Anyone else experiencing something like this? I feel so helpless! Eczema sucks. 😭

I moisturize every day, but some mornings I’ll wake with broken skin all over my face and It seems like there’s nothing I can do when it happens. I just have to wait for it to heal.

Has anyone found something that helps heal/prevent broken skin?

Hey all, I just thought I would create my own post here, but my absolute biggest trigger is sleep. I think once I got my phone away from me at night it drastically improved my sleep.

In the past I would always aim for 8 hours but then look at my phone and it would turn into 6.

Now I get 9 hours of sleep a night and my stress levels are lower and my eczema has drastically decreased.

I got some eczema on the bottom of my nose, and I also proceeded to feel itching inside my nose. Now I can't tell if eczema somehow got in my nostrils, which I didn't think was possible. But also, I have a lot of allergies and now that it's spring, it's possible that my nose is simply inflamed. But it just seems weird that the itching came on right after I noticed eczema on the bottom of my nose.

Okay I don't know why this happened. this shitty disease robbed me of my youth and now it just up and disappeared, wtf. I no longer use topical/oral steroids nor constantly catch infections and need antibiotics. I track my changes in a notepad and found these that stand out (co-related with improvement in skin) it may not work for everyone but i hope something can help at least.

The changes:

• supplemented vitamin D and omega 3s, also ate more fish. Blood test results returned optimal after that.
• L-histidine supplement. I dont know how this helps but massive improvement a week after starting it so i just continued. No downsides so far, i justhave too much energy
• used eucerin eczema body cream. This stopped itch, and provided huge relief, I suspect the oatmeal + liquorice root has something to do with it.
• ceradan ph balanced moisturiser. It stings when used alone, so i mixed it with the eucerin.
• stopped dairy. Dairy gave me flare ups everytime i consumed. I miss cheese :(

I went from being so grossly sticky and rashy to basically fucking clear now, like you cant even tell I have eczema. i live in singapore which is sticky hot and humid, but something i done must have hit eczema right in the spot as it is gone. I dont know which one it is so i will just continue what im doing.

Hello,

My upper lip becomes irritated whenever I drink alcohol. Could this just be eczema? Should I be worried? I am trying to obtain information while I wait to visit a dermatologist.

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i just wanted to share something which made an eczema patch go away. last summer i had a circular eczema patch on my leg which was bothering me for ages, and whilst sunbathing one day, i purposely burnt my legs (i know this is bad for you but i was desperate to find a solution to get rid of my eczema patches), and after the burn healed a few days later, the eczema went away with it!! it hasn’t come back since, although i now have another circular eczema patch on my other leg lol. but i plan to sun-burn it off this summer too.

not sure if this has worked for anyone else too?? (ps i don’t encourage sunburning yourself, i just wanted to share something which helped me after struggling with eczema patches for years).

Hey guys,

I recently developed eczema in the creases of my elbow and knees. It started as a 1" blotch on my right forearm maybe like...6-8 months ago? Then it popped up in my right elbow crease as a small patch that just grew and grew. It pretty much covers my whole elbow crease in length and width.

In February, I decided to go to the doctor and they prescribed me 0.05% Betaderm (Betamethasone Valerate) cream. I used it on my forearm and elbow crease as prescribed (1-2 weeks) and they mellowed out pretty nicely. The forearm patch hasn't really come back like it used to be, but I still occasionally wake up in the night super itchy with little tiny pimple-looking bumps, but they go away relatively quickly on their own and I haven't really had to use the Betaderm on that spot again (besides one desperate 3am itch fest just so I could get back to sleep.)

The elbow creases are a whole other beast though. I feel like I've done like 5-6 cycles of the Betaderm on the right elbow crease, and it just keeps on coming back. I've also developed another patch in my left elbow crease too that's behaving the same--flares up, goes away with Betaderm, comes back, repeat. And now, just this past week or two, I seem to be flaring behind my knees too! Sometimes I seem to get a tiny patch on my left index finger, but that patch hasn't come to the party recently.

I'm starting to feel a little hopeless because I don't want to be chained to these Betaderm on/off cycles forever, and I'm a little worried about the effects of using the steroid cream all the damn time when it's really just meant to be used once, maybe twice (for a 1-2 week cycle).

Are there any seasoned eczema veterans here that can help me out? (or newbies too, I really don't care, I just need help) I'm desperate for some advice about how to manage this. I don't really know if I have high hopes of curing it, but any advice on how to soothe the itch would be so appreciated.

For some very important context: NOTHING changed in my life. I didn't start eating differently, I didn't start using new body products or laundry detergent. It seems so random and unprovoked, which just adds to my frustration because there's nothing that I can easily blame for the sudden flares.

I'm 24F, so I was wondering about hormone changes? Could that have triggered it?? I just don't know!!

I have a loooong history of acne (since 11 y/o, so 13 years now) and have always had sensitive skin. I've always needed to use gentle soap and laundry detergents, no heavy fragrance products, and didn't recently start using any either.

I've also been through a full season change (started in fall, went all winter, now in a nice, pleasant spring), so I don't really think it's weather related.

Please, any advice, really anything, I'm desperate.

TL;DR 24F with new patches of eczema in elbow and knee creases. No lifestyle or product changes. Always had sensitive skin + acne, so never any use of heavily scented products, and no recent introduction of these products either. 0.05% Betamethasone Valerate cream prescribed in February. Patches go away with use, but return quickly after stopping. Need help with itch soothing strategies and possible remedies!

I have suffered with eczema since I was a baby. During lockdown I suddenly got patches where I never had them before, and was uncontrollable. My GP was useless and refused to refer me to a derm, I ended up paying to go private (after over a year) and luckily was then referred for patch testing on the NHS. Anyway, it only occurred to me that my skin, and my health in general deteriorated massively during the pandemic/having the jab/having covid. I'm usually a conspiracy theory naysayers, but I do wonder about it's affect on autoimmune issues. Loosely related, my partner also got alopecia during the pandemic/covid/jabs etc, at the age of 27! Thoughts please people? This is my 1st post on reddit, be nice 🙏🩷

I didn’t see much info on this topic so I figured I’d share my experience for someone else who googles this eventually lol.

I have gotten several tattoos while on dupixent and I haven’t noticed any issues while getting tattooed, healing, or the result of the tattoo. However, I got a tattoo last Saturday, the day after I did my injection, and I noticed getting the tattoo was more painful than usual, and I bruised for the first time.

Previously I have gotten tattooed during my “off” weeks, or done the shot after my tattoo appointment. This is my first time getting a tattoo the day after my injection and it’s the only time I noticed a difference.

I hope this helps someone!

Hey everyone! I just wanted to share my personal experience with the paleo diet and how it's been nothing short of a game changer for me. I've been struggling with quite severe eczema on my hands for the longest time, and nothing seemed to help.

I decided to give the paleo diet a shot, and let me tell you, it's been a revelation. Just two weeks into strictly following the diet, I've seen an 80% reduction in my eczema symptoms. It's like I've regained a new sense of freedom in my life.

The paleo diet, which focuses on whole foods and eliminates processed items, has not only helped with my skin condition but also improved my overall energy levels. I'm not here to claim it's a cure-all, but for anyone struggling with similar issues, it might be worth a try.

Has anyone else had similar experiences? Would love to hear your stories!

Also I excluded eggs and dairies.

Hi everyone. My hand eczema seems to be mild, and my fingers have peels about 4 times in 3 years. After they peeled, I was left with lines/wrinkles/ridges all over my fingertips. They recently peeled again and these came back. I constantly use lotion and I have seen results and slow healing, but I was wondering if anyone has had this, what I can do to help it heal faster, and if it’ll go away completely with time. Again, I have seen results with constant use of lotion.

I was in the middle of typing up my story and struggle with eczema but no one really cares and we've heard it all before. I hit my breaking point today, I got home late last night from a holiday where I couldn't sleep, was in constant pain and itching all day. Had booked an appointment with mt GP for this morning. Last night I took my last strong drowsy antihistamine as I would probably get more today. Ended up sleeping past my appointment, woke up to find I had scratched my arms so badly they were essentially bleeding and can't even bend my elbows. I had to call in sick to work.

I cried for the first time today since probably I was a little boy. I am so sick of this condition, I have been to a dermatologist who gave me about 2 minutes of attention and was having none of my questions, been to 4 different doctors all who just give me a steroid and antibiotic. This has been so debilitating for the last 3 years.

End of my rant.

I went to the grocery store and got 3 big 16 pound bags of ice. Next time I think I will get 4. I filled up bath with cold water and the bags of ice. I stayed in about ten minutes with dunking my head 3 times for 30 seconds each.

MY skin went from Bright Red and irritated to light pink and feels pretty normal so far.

I am also going to do an enema and/or colonics because that also works very well.

I've had nummular eczema on my legs, arms and hips with huge weeping lesions for about 4 months. I was using hypochlorous acid and clobetasol 3 to 2 days per week to control it while I got an appointment with a dermatologist.

I finally got to see her on the 9th of April and she gave me Bactrim, Prednisone, mupirocin ointment and desonide, I used the medication for the amount of days she directed which was 20 days and it healed the lesions around 98% until I got my period and I got a flare on my arm; it's tiny yellow blisters, I know these are caused by staph because they ooze and yellow crust, they are small by now but if I don't control them I'm afraid I will get the big scabs and I can't go through that again, I'd rather die, no joke.

I've been using mupirocin for 20 days because the doctor said so but I read online you can only use it for 10 days, I have stopped the ointment and the desonide. I'm thinking about not using them for 5 days and then get on them again for 6 more days now that my period is over to prevent the spread and fully heal.

What do you think?

TDLR: I used mupirocin and desonide for 20 days and healed huge nummular lesions but my period flared some up and I'm thinking about using them again for another week against drug manufacturer recommendations (10 days for mupirocin and 2 weeks for desonide)

The twists and bends I have to make my arm go through to reach the itch on my back are insane

Face skin looked great for a solid few weeks, then I decide to have a day out in harsh windy weather, and we’re back to square one. Mainly PD-like reaction around the mouth area and some rash on the eye. Has anyone had this happen and does anyone know any solutions?

Hi everyone,

I have terrible eczema on my arm, hands, and mouth. I have been applying protopic twice-daily as prescribed by my dermatologist, which will then be gradually reduced to maintain.

My issue is, it's so so greasy! How do you guys cope with this?

I'm finding that whilst at work, my keyboard, mouse, pens and anything I touch just become greasy too.

Are we able to pat the area dry after so long? As it doesn't say in the instructions how long it takes to be absorbed.

Thanks in advance!

Hello guys, sweating causes my eczema. I like running but Im sweating alot, I directly taking bath after short running, but I don't think using shower gel every day is healty.