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Royal Sussex County Hospital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Curing Eczema – part 1\u00a0<\/span> \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

William Mills describes his battle with eczema and relates his experiences with this debilitating skin condition.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I recall in the far off days of the spring of 2018, visiting a consultant dermatologist who I\u2019d found privately.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clinic was located in an old mansion in darkest Hove, with waiting room settees so deep I feared not being able to hoist myself out again.<\/span><\/p>\n

My consultant looked at my hands and feet. My eczema was bad. My skin had agonising cracks in my fingertip pads.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Extensive eczema on palm of left hand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The ones running across the underneath of my foot brought back memories of the film Midnight Express, set in a Turkish jail where prisoners were whipped on the soles of their feet.<\/span><\/p>\n

He examined, and huffed and puffed as doctors do, and showed interest in my income as private consultants do.<\/span><\/p>\n

He prescribed an ointment called \u2018Clobaderm\u2019 and condemned me to two years of agony and discomfort.<\/span><\/p>\n

This wrenched ointment caused my skin to thin and crack even more than before.<\/span><\/p>\n

The low point came when visiting the local chemist in rural Petworth. <\/span><\/p>\n

I was discussing various products with a female healthcare professional when the packaging sliced through my finger as if it was a razor blade leaving blood pouring down my hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

She looked in horror and walked away leaving me to cope the best I could.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps she thought I was about to explode, in which case running away was undoubtedly the best option, leaving me trapped inside my skin with all its defects.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I was getting to the point of desperation and willing my hands to get better of their own accord. I used to dream of being able to type all day long once more.<\/span><\/p>\n

My hands had nearly recovered, twice in fact, only to get worse once more so it was only a matter of figuring out what made them poorly in the first place, and what cured them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I pondered over the causes of eczema I\u2019d read about.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact dermatitis is triggered by touching things, and my finger pads, then as now are most regularly in contact with my laptop.<\/span><\/p>\n

The other was emotional stress. I\u2019d had a rotten time being bullied out of my local yacht club because some others thought I was gay. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sailing is my passion and my life so I felt pretty low.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A painful skin crack in foot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

During the summer of 2019 I decided I must rid myself of this awful affliction so I stopped using the Clobaderm ointment deciding to see what would happen next.<\/span><\/p>\n

In August my fingers swelled up and my feet turned bright red. When I lifted both extremities the blood drained backwards and forwards. As surely as the flowing tide.<\/span><\/p>\n

Next, red pin picks appeared on the back of my hands which in turn spread up my arms and across my chest.<\/span><\/p>\n

This was completely getting out of hand.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked my surgery for a GP appointment and later that day saw a probationer doctor.<\/span><\/p>\n

He was quite shocked at the severity of my condition and asked his boss to have a look who recommended stopping all the various creams I\u2019d been using.<\/span><\/p>\n

I asked the private clinic for another appointment but, alas it was some weeks before I finally got to see the consultant.<\/span><\/p>\n

By then the inflamed areas of my body had calmed down a little but he was concerned for me, and immediately prescribed a course of steroid tablets called Prednisolone.<\/span><\/p>\n

He also suggested I would need phototherapy light treatment, and pointed out that as I probably won\u2019t be able to afford this at his clinic, he would refer me back to the NHS. <\/span><\/p>\n

And with that we said goodbye.<\/span><\/p>\n

I dutifully took the tablets every day for the four weeks as prescribed. <\/span><\/p>\n

For the first three weeks nothing happened and my affliction continued unabated.<\/span><\/p>\n

The patient information leaflet horrified me with its graphic descriptions of the side effects I could expect. <\/span><\/p>\n

I apparently was going to get a \u2018moon face\u2019 and commit suicide, which would no doubt delight my enemies in the marina.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the fourth week I was desperate to stop the pills but I suddenly found they were working. My eczema disappeared as mysteriously as it had come. I was cured.<\/span><\/p>\n

But sure enough, ten days after stopping the Prednisolone pills my affliction returned.<\/span><\/p>\n

But my eczema was no longer incurable and it was now a matter of replicating the remedy without using harmful steroid medications. <\/span><\/p>\n

The final cure would take another three months to discover but was surprisingly easy to achieve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curing Eczema –\u00a0part 1<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In part two<\/strong> William Mills continues his journey of discovery into the cures available for eczema. <\/span><\/p>\n

His account adds further insight to effectiveness of the treatments he tried, and the pain he endured.<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.eczema.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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