Mum's hell: My eczema treatments were costing me more than a mortgage

A mum-of-two suffered horrifically painful, red and raw skin after she ditched her eczema creams for the first time in 35 years - and almost lost everything trying to treat it.

Christine Vyse, from , was given various topical and oral steroid medication, as advised by doctors, to treat her dry sensitive skin from the young age of seven - after her parents noticed she was allergic to their dogs.

As her skin condition worsened she was progressively prescribed stronger creams until she noticed the highest potency no longer seemed to work.

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