‘Evie was on various types of creams, antibiotics and steroids. None worked’

Mum-of-three Angela Morgan (42), from Belfast says her daughter Evie’s (5) eczema was so bad there would be blood on her bed clothes. The Four Winds beauty salon owner says she “felt helpless” about the condition until she found something that worked for her little girl. She says:

My youngest daughter Evie has eczema, asthma and allergies. “She has had all of those from birth. Since she was very small her skin would be itchy and red, particularly in between the creases of her arms and legs. Then it spread. Her face would be totally broken out. Around her cheeks, the skin was raw and would get quite infected, particularly when she was teething.

“It was really hard to manage. She was on all types of creams and antibiotics and steroids. We tried everything but nothing worked.

“They thought initially that it was baby eczema, but as she started getting older, nearing a year old, we realised that the likes of strawberries, bananas and tomatoes would have set her skin off.

“So by the time she got that little bit older, it was very much tied to food as well.

“At its worst, during a really bad flare-up, it would appear all over her.

“I remember one day when she was very young, taking her into a cafe before a doctor’s appointment and people were staring at her because her face was so raw.

“She would have just scratched herself until she bled.”

Angela says that she tried every cream on the market as well as everything the doctor prescribed, to no avail.

“Any time her skin looked in any way dry at all, we plastered her in cream,” she says.

“She would have scratched herself in the middle of the night, so there would be blood on the bed clothes in the morning. And I felt terrible because there was nothing I could do about it.

“The doctors were giving me cream after cream, hoping that something was going to work. And with Evie being so young, I didn’t want to resort to antibiotics all the time.

“It was a constant battle try