How to prepare for your child’s Allergy Appointment Check your appointment letter to see whether there will be any tests done on the day – skin prick or blood test. Also check if and when you need to stop giving any antihistamines before the appointment If there are any tests booked, it’s a good idea […]
Eczema: Finally some true respite!
Since November 2014 we’ve had an amazing breakthrough with MyItchyBoy’s eczema. MyItchyBoy has had eczema for over five years. Not just a little bit, but the kind of eczema that takes over the life of the whole family. The hospital letters refer to it as ‘severe’. In the last two years I don’t think we […]
Dermatology Consultants: 3 things I want you to do
Listen to me I don’t want you to have made up your mind before we sit down. I don’t want you to blindly follow your guidelines. I want you to listen. I want you to listen to how my son is doing, how well we are coping, what the actual issues are. And, I want […]
Allergic Reaction on Holiday
Finding somewhere to take an atopic child on holiday is hard. For MyItchyBoy, it’s not just the food allergies, but eczema too. We have to find somewhere not too remote (proximity to medical services and availability of food), somewhere not too hot (aggravates his eczema) and affordable and preferably where we can communicate with restaurant, […]
MyItchyBoy update Sept 2014
I’ve been quiet over the summer, so I thought I would do a quick update of where we are with MyItchyBoy: 1. MyItchyBoy had blood tests in May of this year. We are still waiting to see the full results. Yes, four months later. The tests were requested by the dermatologist so they’ve only been […]
Really Robinsons? A sachet for juice? You make me cross!
Have you heard how cross I am with Robinsons? Well, actually, I guess I’m not cross with them at all. I’m cross with pharmaceutical companies. Why is it that a drinks company can develop a fancy, simple way to add squash to a bottle of water so we can all drink more sugar, but I’m […]
Will my son make a great pharmacist one day?
MyItchyBoy’s arms and legs are itchy and sore and it seems nothing we are doing is helping. Our last appointment with the dermatologist, lots of scary-sounding solutions were brought up. Since then, he’s been on a two month course of steroids. I was hopeful for the first week that these were going to give us […]
Dermatology appointment – debrief
Well, it didn’t help that last time (4 mths ago) as well as this time, MyItchyBoy was seen in the Dermatology Department. Sound odd? No, I know, a dermatologist in the dermatologist department, right? Well, yes, but when you have to wait over half an hour, it’s much nicer to be seen in paediatric clinics […]
How do you take emollients out with you?
So we can manage MyItchyBoy’s eczema properly, we have always taken a small bottle of decanted emollient out and about with us. We use it quite often, especially on long days out when he needs a cream top up during the day. Decanting the cream is easy enough. I use the Epaderm Cream which has […]
Huge improvement for MyItchyBoy
This morning, putting cream on MyItchyBoy, I felt very emotional. Why? Well, this morning, about 80% of his skin feels weird. Yes, weird. Perhaps not to a parent whose child has never suffered with eczema, but for me, it feels weird. His skin is smooth and soft and almost silky feeling. Most unusual. After a […]