Getting hold of eczema steroid cream in Slovenia

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We're on holiday in Slovenia and DD (14yo) has developed large patches of eczema on her hands, legs and arms. She has a small tube of eumovate which is nearly empty and is diprobasing several times a day.

Does anyone know if we can buy steroid cream over the counter in Slovenia? Or is there a way to get some shipped to us? We're here for another 10 days.

I’m not in Slovenia, but in another Central European EU country and you can buy Locoid cream, which is a mild steroid, over the counter here. Worth a try?

Unsure but it’s worth just going to a Pharmacy and asking. If it requires a prescription, will your GP email you a repeat prescription and then, presuming you have a GHIC card, you can probably get it at a pharmacy (and if not maybe you can just pay for it).

Your GP cannot email you a prescription for you to use in Slovenia 🙄. It is called the NHS, not the International Health Service..

https://surreylodge.co.uk/surgery-information/policies/prescribing-policy-for-patients-travelling-abroad/

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If your own GP doesn’t provide that service quoted from the NHS information for travelling OP (or if it isn’t an ongoing repeat prescription for your DD)!maybe a private GP will? Or possibly your travel insurance can point you in the right direction?

@TheCrenchinglyMcQuaffenBrothers your link means the GP will prescribe medication for you to pick up from a UK pharmacy before you travel. A British FP10 (NHS) prescription will not mean anything to a pharmacist outside the UK. The pharmacist might agree to dispense it, but would charge privately for the item.

OP, I suggest you speak to a pharmacist and ask if there are any steroid creams that are available to buy over the counter in Slovenia. If there are not, you need to see a GP there and get a prescription. A UK GP, whether NHS or private, will not be able to help you now that you are in Slovenia.

Go to the pharmacy or pay for a private gp appt. Mine sends prescriptions to my local pharmacy. £50.

Please do not use steroid cream on delicate skin.

I have a skin disease and just have to accept it because steroid cream thins the skin.

And I think it contains hormones, no idea it that is true.

But those countries sell anything over the counter.

Just wait to come home and get a referral from your GP to a dermatologist.

Clobasol is generic eumavate. The pharmacy should sell it over the counter. It is prescribed for you anyway and you could show them the NHS app. If you don’t want to get in to the questions, just say it is for yourself. If they do not sell it to you, try a few other pharmacies because it is often down to their discretion but I think you’ll get it.

Those suffering with horrible outbreaks of eczema know to only use steroid cream sparingly but it gives immense relief. OP's daughter already has it- not for you to tell them what to do.

Read it again.

It's about medication prescribed BEFORE travel. Not whilst you are abroad.

OP, just go to a pharmacy. Most EU countries work to similar rules for medicine these days.

I'd take the pot into a pharmacy and see if they have anything similar OTC. I did this recently when I was abroad.

Often bite relief cream is hydrocortisone based so could also be an option.

Thanks all for your suggestions. We asked in a pharmacy today and they said we would need a prescription to get anything with steroids in it unfortunately. DD has a little eumovate left so hope she can eek it out for a while and will try to find GP if necessary.

A quick update. The eczema kept getting worse so we decided to find a GP. Tourist Information told us to just turn up at the local surgery, no appointment necessary. So we did, waited for 15 minutes, saw an English speaking GP who immediately prescribed steroid cream. The pharmacy was next door and the medicine was handed over in about 2 mins by an English speaking pharmacist. And everything was free as we had our GHIC cards with us. Unbelievably efficient and such a different experience to getting a GP appointment in the UK.

@suburberphobe 'Those countries' do not just sell 'anything' over the counter. Coming from the former region myself, yes, you can get thinks quickly if you pay but they would not prescribe just anything without seeing the symptom. It's not the Wild West contrary to what you might think.