Ugh.

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Hi all. I just joined not long ago. I had posted about a skin issue

earlier. Apparently I have developed eczema. I'm 22 and have never had

this happen before. My dad had it when he was young, and my 1 1/2

year-old son has it as well. Poor me. If I wasn't a vegetarian I'd go

eat some worms. That's what's wrong with my thumb, anyway. It's

driving me ccccrrrrraaaazzzzzyyyyyyy. Since high school I've had this

perfect skin, and now eczema. Eczema!!! Grrrrrrrr. Anybody know of

something for this? For my son, we have Elidel, which we don't use

after reading the info sheet. We use hemp lotion and that works very

well for him. It hasn't done much for me, though. I tried the tea tree

oil and it got really irritated. Same with the whatever on my back,

which I'll get to later. I had tried using tea tree oil a while back

when I stupidly put in non-gold earrings, six of them, again-

stupidly, I knew better, and my ear got really irritated. The tea tree

oil did the same then as it did this time. Dried it out and made it

hurt. Maybe I'm allergic to it? I have a steroid cream for my thumb,

which I took gladly since it's driving me to the brink of cutting the

whole thing off with a kitchen knife. It's bad. Anyway- on my back,

and on my daughter's face, it is some kind of bacterial infection. I

went to the doctor today, and he had to get another doctor to come

look at it, and together they decided that even though it had some

characteristics of a fungal something or other, it must be bacterial,

so they gave me mupirocin 2%, which again, I am using with much

happiness. Antibiotics and steroids. Fun. If anyone knows something

else I could try, please, please let me know. It's driving me mad.

Kadee Sedtal