Eczemabunny: Living With Moderate-Severe Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)

For me, the hardest part of dealing with Eczema is the unpredictable behavior of your flare-ups. Flare-ups are when your skin suddenly forms intense inflammation and itching. Skin can break out in numerous ways so flare-ups usually consists of rashes, hives, scrapes, scratches, blisters, flakiness and a whole lot of redness. If the flare-up is severe, it may also secrete a smelly fluid that dries a light brown color and crusts up in the crooks of your skin. Flare-ups can last as short as a few days to as long as a couple of months, there's really no indication that I've experienced myself to judge how long you'll have your flare-up when it happens. The photos below are from my most recent flare-up that happened almost two weeks ago. There was also redness that was around my eyes, mouth and neck area that isn't pictured. These areas are always problematic for me and I almost never break out on any other body part. Before this, my skin was maintained at my "norma...

I am an Asian-American, 21 year-old female that was diagnosed with Eczema when I was about 5 years-old following my family's move from San Francisco to Antioch in California. There's a significant difference in weather between the two cities so my parents believed off the bat that my condition was developed through the dry, hot, 100 degree heat. As I grew up seeing different dermatologists, I found that I had environmental allergies and asthma that both incorporated to the flare ups I would unpredictably get. My flare ups would last anywhere from days to weeks and happen as often as every other week to every few months. Just when I thought my skin was under control and improving, next thing you know I would develop flakiness, scrapes, raised bumps, open sores or pink tender skin prominently on my chin, mouth area, eyelids, neck, chest and shoulders I've been prescribed multiple ointments and creams such as Alcometasone, Triamcinolone, Elidel, Desonide and Lidex on top o...