It's probably just because it's the middle of the night, but I'm finding things very tough going at the moment, and wondered if anyone else out there ever feels like this. It would so help to know I'm not alone.
DD1 is 4 and has had pretty bad eczema for the last 2 years. It started when she was 4 months old, but hit a really bad point when she turned two. She's also allergic to various foodstuffs, which seem to set off the eczema too.
At the moment, we're wet wrapping again, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any improvements are soon undone during the day and we have to start all over again in the evening. Life for her and us seems to be one endless round of trying to identify the triggers - I feel like we are constantly watching her clothes, her food, what she touches, or else desperately trying to find some sort of way in which we can make it better - homeopathy, different creams, different shampoos etc. I think that if I search hard enough I will find the miracle cure (and I know there isn't one).I really feel I'm clutching at straws though.
She wakes every night having tried (and generally succeeded) in getting out of the wraps, and is nearly always grouchy and whingey first thing in the morning. We've had so few unbroken nights sleep in the last 2 years that I've forgotten what it's like to feel rested - what she must feel like I don't know.
To cap it all I just can't bring myself to be sympathetic anymore. It's as though I've run out of energy. When it 's my turn to get up to her (dh and I do alternate nights, although we both wake up on the other nights), I invariably end up shouting at her for moaning as I reapply the cream. Afterwards I feel dreadful, but at the time I just can't seem to do anything differently.
Tonight I ended up smacking her, which was hardly constructive. I feel absolutely awful now (as I should), but just don't know what to do any more. Has anyone else ever got to this point? What did you do?
All my contact with dd seems to be about some aspect of her skin or allergies. I feel like the guardian of her wellbeing, and yet powerless to do anything to help. It doesn't help that dd2 (who's 1) has perfect skin.
Sorry for the long post.
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Feeling very low about dd's eczema - does it ever get better?
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Utka · 21/05/2005 01:30
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