Eczema Treatment Care

Question by MarineMom: My 14 y/o gets a brown/dirt looking ‘rash’ on her neck from time to time. I’ve been told it’s Eczema?
However, everything I research Eczema is a red/bumpy rash. I’ve tried creams even alcohol wipes to try and remove it. Nothing seems to work. It comes and goes, but lasts for weeks. Does anyone have any idea what this might be??? Thank you.

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Answer by Hannah W
I’m 14 too and had eczema. I’d decribe it as simillar to what you’ve decribed. Not all eczema has to be red and bumby, that usually decribes what it looks like when it is immflamed after scratching it. For me my eczema comes and goes too. Usually it is brought on by colder, less humid weather and stress. Recently I had been living in australia where it went away, but when i came back to New Zealand it came back again.

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Question by Mariah: I have eczema on my hands, and I work in a restaurant, im in water all the time, what can i do?

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Answer by HappyEnergyFlow
You might want to try herbal remedies from serenaskin.com, this stuff works very well for my eczema. I used ointment and spray to clear the skin and now just take anti-eczema extract to prevent future flare-ups. These remedies do not content steroids.
Wish you the best.

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I’m atopic, so I’m particularly prone to colds, rhinitis, eczema, asthma etc. I usually get a cold every six weeks or so and they tend to last about 10 days, often longer that that. But sometimes I find that just as I appear to be recovering from one cold, I come down with another one; so whilst I am in the snotty-nosed part (sorry to be so graphic!!), I’ll get a sore throat, blocked nose, headache, shivers etc, which I usually associate with the start of a new cold.

Basically my question is to anyone who is medically trained: is it biologically possible to get two colds at the same time? And if it isn’t, what is it that’s happening to me? (Is it the same cold re-emerging or just having a final crack at me?) And if either (or neither) of those guesses is correct, is what is happening to me normal or very odd indeed?!

Thanks in advance!

PS No need to tell me to take more Vit C etc – it’s irrelevant to my situation and won’t make any difference. Thanks!

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