When eczema is good

06/02/2012 by spindlygiraffe.

It has been a long time since I posted on here.  Overall things have been pretty good.  My huband took James to his last dermatology appointment and asked questions.  The referral to a paediatric dermatologist had been rejected.  In fairness it has not been so bad since then.  However, I was cross it was rejected.

James’ face has been so much improved, we are able to use protopic 0.1% at the weekends and pretty much moisturisers the rest of the time.  I could spend all day just looking at his handsome wee face.  I was speaking to his teaching assistant at the Christmas Fair and she was commenting on the photo I had sent with the eczema fact sheet I’d prepared for him starting.  They’ve not had to see that, I find it upsetting to look at the photos, even though that was how he used to be… the majority of the time.  His face used to be varying degrees of severity, usually severe but sometime worse and occasionally better.

I’m loving it now.  He is a very tactile little boy and loves it if you stroke the side of his face.  It is an amazing feeling when it is soft!

Over his body is not too bad.  The cold does not seem to have affected it too much.  Central heating has.  Last week, his eczema did take a turn for the worse, but it ended up being more of an asthma problem.  Now he is 5years, he is officially asthmatic!  He has patches but not too bad - nothing that a bit of Elocon won’t hopefully sort.

Such a relief.

I did find out from someone who used to be an MDA at his school that not all of them are that sensitive during the hot weather.  She was saying that she used to get him to sit by the window to eat his lunch.  He overheats and scratches intensely.  Others however, apparently said, he needs to deal with it.  Oh if they could change shoes for a day and endure it.  I will raise it at the next parents evening pre-summer.

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