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Article: family: How to live with eczema; IT'S A SKIN CONDITION THAT HITS 1-IN-5 KIDS SO WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT.(Features)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2007
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Byline: By LISA SALMON
T'S not only children who have problems with childhood eczema, their parents suffer too. The itchy skin disease affects one in five kids, and figures show that 52% of their carers feel they have no control over their child's condition, 23% never get a good night's sleep, and 15% feel the whole household is disrupted.
"When one person in a family has eczema, everyone can be affected," says National Eczema Society chief executive Margaret Cox. "A child with eczema may wake several times a night because they've scratched so much they need bathing, or because they need more cream putting on. This can really take its toll on parents."
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