Eczema: has a mother found a cure?

When Tracy Wood delivered her first child, Charlotte now, there is no manifestation of the nightmare which was in the future.

But at three several weeks old Charlotte now created a small dry, red-colored patch on her behalf scalp that the doctor stated was eczema.

He suggested a gentle steroid cream for Charlotte now, but instead of disappear, the red-colored patch started to spread alarmingly.

By 18 several weeks old, Charlotte now was covered from mind to foot with scratchy, dry red-colored patches.

A healthcare facility skin doctor told Tracy to use wet bandages three occasions next day of first using a moisturizer after which steroid cream, and Charlotte now was placed on a non-dairy diet just in case the eczema had been amplified by an allergic reaction. However there is little improvement.

'I remember seeing Charlotte now laying around the sofa together with her legs bleeding because she'd been itching, not able to obtain as much as have fun with her toys. It had been heartbreaking.'

To provide Tracy a relaxation, Charlotte now was accepted to hospital for any week. 'She arrived on the scene just like a new girl because they'd used more powerful steroid cream, however the eczema was still being there. I understood on her sake I needed to take action of my very own.A

But acupuncture, naturopathic remedies and holistic dietary therapy all unsuccessful for stopping Charlotte's eczema.

Finally Tracy walked right into a herbal shop working in brighton, only a couple of miles from her home in Newhaven, East Sussex.

'The individuals the store recommended a flower essence for Charlotte now that we attempted on her behalf skin, however it only appeared to assist just a little.

'I began to purchase books on herbal treatments and spent hrs in libraries.'

In the kitchen area in your own home she played around with with assorted concoction produced from lavender, beeswax and camomile, combined with vegetable oils, however they were either too greasy, or she did not such as the smell or even the colour.

Then she learned that marigold and chickweed were suggested for problems.

'Luckily I'd marigolds growing within my backyard, and my mother had chickweed growing inside a area near her holiday caravan.

I mixed them track of vegetable oils and a couple of other elements and finally, after about 2 yrs of attempting, I discovered I'd a cream I had been pleased with.A

Like a trial Tracy, attempted it on her behalf boy Robert, at that time two, who'd two small patches of eczema on his ft but had steered clear of the higher disasters.

'I place the cream on Robert's ft each morning and during the night. After 10 days the eczema had disappeared. I had been so excited, and made the decision the time had come to test the fit Charlotte now.

'I recall the day exactly. It had been This summer 19, 1999. Rather than using the typical steroid cream after i placed on her bandages, I informed her I would get yourself some of mummy's cream.

'I use it two times each day after a couple of days I saw the eczema was in check.

'About six days later, Charlotte now emerged in sore spots on her behalf ft, and that i required her to hospital. She remained in overnight, but the following day the eczema began to obvious.

'The eczema ongoing to obvious, contributing to five several weeks once i had first applied my cream Charlotte now was virtually free from eczema.'

Tracy, 35, and her partner Steve, 42, saw an impressive switch to their lives. 'Charlotte would be a normal child finally,A stated Tracy.

Now six, the only real manifestation of the appalling eczema she once experienced is really a small, barely-visible patch under one jaw.

Word of Tracy's amazing cream spread. Desperate parents facing similar bad dreams approached her for help. She's now offered over 1,000 jars of her cream in great britan so that as far afield as Australia.

A week ago Tracy was one of the runners up from the female Inventor Of The Season Award, in which the idol judges heaped praise on her behalf product.

Ally Broughton, director of research in the National Institute of Medical Herbal healthcare specialists, also recognized her initiative. 'What Tracy has been doing is wonderful. The herbal treatments she uses make sense.

• Tracy Wood could be approached by letter at 48 King's Avenue, Newhaven, East Sussex BN9 ONB.