Child admitted to hospital for severe eczema

[MummOf5]

Has anyone had a child admitted to Dermatology in hospital for treatment of severe eczema? Can you tell me what to expect and how they treat it please? We are waiting for a call to admit my daughter to Dermatology but I don’t know what to expect and how they will help her?
She has been suffering from such severe eczema for the past few months and it had gotten progressively worse and more painful for the last 3-4 weeks. She’s not sleeping well, she can’t walk unassisted so we spend every night on the sofa downstairs because she cannot walk up the stairs to her bedroom anymore. She has been off school for at least 3 weeks now and everything we’ve been prescribed by her doctor and dermatologist has not worked or improved her symptoms one bit.

No experience but it must be touch on her and you to have is in such severity.

Perhaps there are some medicines that might work but need to be given via IV? Hopefully she will be admitted soon and it will dimish her eczema.

How old is your daughter? If she is young, make sure that you have multiple things from home with her, so f.e. her favorite bedding. Would make it easier to settle in for her.

I don’t know for sure because it wasn’t myself but my mum. So obvs a long time ago. But it was medicated wraps and bandages they applied.

They possibly do wet wraps with steroid creams. And prednisone and then immunosuppressants? Not sure what stage you are up to with the dermatologists.

There are Facebook groups full of children who look like they've severe eczema, but it's Topical Steroid Addiction/Withdrawal or Red Skin Syndrome. It looks shocking and painful, but children do heal and get over it.

My little girl was referred to dermatologists, had multiple allergy tests, was given every single steroid cream under the sun, given emollients etc. Nothing worked and she continued to get skin infection after skin infection. We eventually got referred to an epidemiologist to see if it was allergy related and for more tests. He felt it was simply really bad eczema. I wish someone had told me at the very start of our journey the advice he eventually gave me. 1 cap of Milton sterilising solution in the bath, 1 cap of emollient (if we so wished but he didn’t rate it and simply said it made the bath slippy), then just apply her normal emollient cream on. Her skin is now almost completely clear! A few small patches sometimes re appear and we apply a very small amount of steroid but we are so happy with her skin. She has been like this for almost a year now and we just wish we had known sooner.