A really excellent blog from Ruth at What Allergy? about scratching - or rather - how not to scratch. I don't think that those of us who are lucky enough not to suffer from a condition such as eczema or psoriasis have any concept of how insane-driving the itch can be. The need …
Jennifer Worth
Is scratching eczema a form of self harm?
Many of you will already know, or at least know of, Ruth Holroyd who runs the What allergy? blog. Ruth has more allergies and intolerances than all of our hot breakfasts put together and writes both movingly and amusingly about living with them. One of the symptoms of her many …
Living with eczema
Those of us lucky enough to have relatively normal skin all pay lip service to 'how awful it must be to have bad eczema' and 'those poor little children' with weeping, open sores. (Pictures courtesy of Dr Harry Morrow Brown.) And indeed we do feel genuinely sympathetic – but how …