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Article: Easing the pain of eczema sufferers; Emma Johnson talks to a couple who are speaking out about their sons' experience as part of National Eczema Week.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 23, 2004
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Byline: Emma Johnson
IMAGINE having to watch as your babies scratch and claw their skin until it is so red that it bleeds. Having to listen to them crying in pain at night and find blood on their clothes from cuts in their skin.
It sounds horrific but that is what Susan and Mark Molyneux have had to go through with their twin boys Aaron and Bradley.
Aaron and Bradley, now four, have suffered from eczema since they were just 10-weeks-old and, while some may consider it a minor skin disorder, at times the boys' condition has been so severe it has resulted in their hospitalisation. ``Their skin is dry all over, '' says dad Mark, ``particularly ...