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Article: 'Images' takes close look at lives itched by eczema.(Life - Health)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- December 19, 2006
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Byline: MARTA SALIJ - Detroit Free Press
Susan Lipworth first got really bad eczema during her second pregnancy.
That "second" is important, she thinks. She was fine the first time: No itching skin, no scratching until she bled But something with the baby or the pregnancy wasn't fine, and Lipworth miscarried.
The second time, everything switched. Healthy baby, not-so-healthy mom. Lipworth had never had a rash that maddening.
"And all I could take was Benadryl," she says, eyes widening.
It's the nature of a disease like eczema to send sufferers - about 35 million of them in the United States, according to the National Eczema Association - to look for ...