Eczema: black skin - pigmentation changes

[Wimmilymorris]

Hello - My DS aged 7 is atopic (asthma, eczema, food allergies). The eczema on his face is causing the skin to change colour so that the affected areas are becoming quite pale in comparison to the rest of his face. We've been through the rota of emollients (diprobase, Unguentum M, Epaderm, 50/50.) Now we're on Eumovate. But I'm concerned for him.
Does anyone have experience of this? Will his normal colour return? What have you used on your child's face?
Thanks

hi wimmily, can't speak from experience with black skin, but I am quite a dark-skinned white person and always had a lot of loss of pigmentation on the areas with severe eczema as a child. The pigments did come back after a couple of years without (or only mild) eczema.

My 7 year old dd also has eczema, we use diprobase on her face and plain steroids (1%) or fucidin h it it gets really bad.

Thanks for this geekgrrl. Relieved to hear that pigmentation loss need not necessarily be permanent.