There are very few positives I can take from having a child with eczema, but learning about my own skin and how to treat and protect it has been one of them. We moved house last year and lost an ensuite bathroom in the process. That in itself was not terrible as I am not […]
Our family trip to the London Allergy Show 2013
This year we made the trip to the London Allergy Show on the Sunday. We managed to leave on time, walked super fast to the station to find we were 5 mins early. The train was nice and quiet, apart from MyItchyBoy narrating the journey with his head glued to the window (not literally, you […]
Our adventure into a salt cave
We live not too far from a couple of salt therapy places, but have never actually been before. However, it has been a tough week or so for MyItchyBoy with his eczema and so I thought that it would be a good opportunity to give it a go. Salt therapy is something usually recommended for […]
Eczema friendly bedding: What I’ve learned so far
For a child with eczema, like MyItchyBoy, having the right bedding is key to a good night’s sleep. Tiredness makes an already itchy child more itchy and tired, grumpy parents will find coping with the daily trials of eczema harder than usual So, this is what I’ve learned (the hard way!) about bedding for eczema […]
Eczema: the impact on family life
MyItchyBoy has suffered atopic eczema since he was a few months old. His wrists are almost always dry and itchy but eczema on the rest of his body depends on so many other things. He has food allergies and intolerances that affect his eczema but on the whole we manage to lead what we consider […]
Eczema is giving me piles – of laundry!
There are so many times that I wish MyItchyBoy had ‘normal’ skin. However, this week, my sighs and desires for normality come from the combination of a backlog of laundry and the change in weather. Due to the eczema that my son suffers, we change his bedding every couple of days. Most mornings when I […]
Eczema Egg Challenge
So, did I mention, we can now give MyItchyBoy eggs? Well, when I say eggs, I mean we can bake cakes and buns and things and actually put real egg in. Yes, real egg, from chickens. It may sound like a trivial thing, but when they have been out of his diet for the past […]
Chicken Pox 1, Eczema 0
The recent Easter holidays started well. We were lucky enough to visit some great friends in central Europe over the bank holiday. Then we returned to some sunshine, a nice family day out on the Tuesday before Husband returning to work on the Wednesday. Then it went downhill quite quickly. I’m all for Easter being […]
Help me! What is he allergic to???
Right, a few weeks back I got a call from MyItchyBoy’s nursery. I was told that he had a red eye, that it possibly looked a bit swollen. They were concerned enough to call, weren’t sure what had happened. They couldn’t find the anti-histamine that they have on site (don’t get me started on that!) […]
Solving the sleep issue
For a while now, MyItchyBoy has had trouble sleeping. That is to say, he has no trouble sleeping when he’s asleep and is settling as well as can be expected from a procrastinating genius that all 4 year olds are. The trouble has been that he keeps waking up somewhere between 1130pm and 3am and […]