A 28-year-old mother, from High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, has revealed how a £4.
50 cream cured her eight-year-old’s eczema.
Tara Robbins told her eight-year-old daughter, Chiara, has suffered from eczema since she was just four months old.
Chiara has been hospitalised at least 10 times since then and the mother had spent thousands of pounds on the treatment of her daughter’s cracked, rough and itchy skin.
Tara said: “She was four months old and was covered head to toe in this red rash. I phoned NHS Direct, who advised me to go straight to hospital, where we were told it was suspected meningitis.”
When she rushed her daughter to Aylesbury’s Stoke Mandeville Hospital, they told her it was not meningitis but a viral infection.
Tara again went to see the GP after a few days and was told it was “just a rash.”
Finally, Chiara was diagnosed with atopic eczema when she nine months old.
The mother told: “Her hands were the worst. Her fingers would often be so sore that she couldn’t even bend them, but it was also all over her legs and arms.”
She had to take her to A&E as it would get infected, would bleed and be pussy.
Chiara has been hospitalized at least 10 times because of her condition and had to be covered in anti-infection cream and wrapped in bandages.
The parents had to cover her hands in clingfilm to stop her scratching at home.
Tara tried everything to cure her daughter’s itchy and cracked skin but nothing worked, including a 50ml £100 cream.
Tara told her daughter received negative comments about her skin condition when she started school.
This made her lose her confidence as children would refuse to play with her and would point at her hands and ask: ‘What’s that on your hands?’
Tara said: “People would look at her in the street and would tell her to wash her hands, even though they were not dirty, the marks were scabs.”
“Chiara would say, ‘My hands are not dirty. It’s eczema’, which would break my heart.”
In 2017, Tara decided to try £4.50 Childs Farm moisturizer after hearing good things about the cream.
She thought it was a waste of time and it wouldn’t work as she had tried everything.
Tara said: “I thought it was an absolute waste of time because nothing ever worked. Then, amazingly, it worked straight away. Within two weeks it was completely cleared up.”
Tara and Chiara are now happy with the £4.50 cream as it has changed Chiara’s life completely.
She has moved to a new school so she doesn’t have to worry about children mocking or trolling her.
Tara said: “She no longer has to worry about what the other children are saying because they haven’t known her with eczema.”
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