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Jenny S

About Jenny S

I'm Jenny, a sufferer of eczema and other relative conditions. I am to help raise awareness of chronic skin conditions and to hopefully help others who suffer. Visit my blog here: http://i-have-eczema.blogspot.co.uk

Jenny S

5 Oct

Painting Over The Walls To Hide The Cracks

Shane used a brilliant phrase in his post last month entitled “What If Everything You Thought You Knew Was A Lie?” describing how Doctors tend to paint over the cracks rather than fixing the problem to get to the root of the …

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Jenny S

18 Jun

Hospitalised with Eczema Herpeticum

Sorry I’ve been rather quiet recently. I actually spent last week hospitalised with a sudden and extremely dangerous bout of Eczema Herpeticum and Periorbital Cellulitis. For those not in the know, EH is when the herpes simplex virus occurs, but …

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4 May

Living With Eczema

As with any illness eczema can range from mild, moderate to severe but not many people seem to realise this. Here, I’d like to talk about how eczema as a condition can be debilitating; making leading a “normal” life difficult. …

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17 Apr

Don’t Let Them Bring You Down

I must say that I have reached a stage in my life where I have managed to come to some kind of terms with the fact that I suffer from severe eczema. I’ve stopped giving a damn about how I …

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24 Mar

Adult Atopic Eczema

As an adult sufferer of severe chronic eczema it’s often hard to feel accepted and to know that other people are suffering the exact same thing due to the fact that most people’s view of eczema is only from knowing …

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7 Mar

Hello, I am an eczema sufferer

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My name is Jenny and I have had eczema, asthma and hay fever since birth. I had been able to mostly manage my conditions by taking a steroid inhaler and applying hydrocortisone when it flared up. However it wasn’t until …

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