October is Eczema Awareness Month -

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Having Eczema can be very painful and at times embarrassing especially if you are having a major flare up. Unfortunately, my oldest daughter Maddie knows what is feels like to suffer from this dreaded and embarrassing skin condition. Before I tell you about Maddie’s experience with Eczema let me give you a little bit of facts about this horrifying skin condition. It is a family of skin conditions that causes the skin to become swollen, irritated, and itchy. Cases of eczema can be either mild or extremely harsh. There is no cure for this skin condition but there are treatments that make the condition bearable for those that suffer. Eczema is a rash characterized by redness, swelling, itching and dryness, crusting, flaking, blistering, cracking, oozing, or bleeding.

Like I said my oldest daughter suffers from this horrifying condition. We have tried everything out there to help ease her suffering. Her eczema is on the top and bottom of her foot. The bottom of her foot near her big toe was covered with blisters and the top part of her foot is often red, swollen and very itchy. Just listen to her testimonial.

Maddie has noticed that it tends to flare up more at night but there have been times that she has wanted to cut short her times with friends because of how bad it hurt. Just looking at I can see how painful it must be for her. I cannot see how she can even walk on it.

So when I was asked to try out AVEENO® Eczema Therapy Collection, I was excited. I researched this collection and found out some awesome tidbits of information. I loved how there were different products in this collection. The products were as follows:

AVEENO® Eczema Therapy Care Kit

The AVEENO® Eczema Therapy Care Kit is a two-step regimen formulated with ACTIVE NATURALS® Colloidal Oatmeal to help soothe eczema-prone skin. Eczema Therapy Bath Treatment gently cleanses and relieves irritation due to eczema. Then, Eczema Therapy Moisturizing Cream seals in moisture to protect and help strengthen the skin’s natural barrier function. The kit helps to improve the four symptoms of eczema—itchiness, dryness, irritation and rough skin.

Maddie found that this was very helpful for when she flared the most.
AVEENO® Eczema Therapy Bath Treatment

AVEENO® Eczema Therapy Bath Treatment combines ultra-finely milled, ACTIVE NATURALS® Colloidal Oatmeal to relieve dry, itchy skin caused by rashes, eczema and other irritation. When dispersed in water, this powder forms a milky bath that soothes as it naturally cleanses without soap. After bathing, your skin is softer, smoother and relieved of the irritation associated with dry skin.

This was very helpful for Maddie, she is not fond of baths she would rather take showers but she found that if she filled a pan with water and put this in the water. She would sit and watch television while soaking her foot.

I would highly recommend this product even though it did not heal Maddie’s eczema it did help ease the pain that she felt because of this horrible skin condition.