LUCY Dimond is a typical six-year-old girl who loves to swim and play resting on her backyard swing but what make her dissimilar to other children is her severe case of eczema, Lucy's mum, Helen, said her daughter experienced eczema all in excess of her body,"She gets a raised red rash, which is really itchy, and when it gets bad it can sob or get infected," Ms Dimond said.
This week marks Eczema Awareness Week, which runs until Sunday, Ms Dimond said it was an opportunity to split her experience concerning her daughter's condition, which Lucy has had since birth, "It became actually bad when she was a toddler and we became aware that we had to use different soaps," she said.
Eczema or 'atopic dermatitis', is a general allergic skin condition and is one of a family of atopic diseases that includes asthma and hay fever it regularly starts in childhood and in many people it persists to adulthood.
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