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Hollie Bone & Steven Smith

Five-year-old boy's severe eczema leaves him covered in blood and in agony

A little boy's eczema has got so severe that his skin is left "red raw" and he ends up covered in blood. Until last September, Theo Mills, five, had no health issues.

But when his eyelid became puffy his parents Jon and Cecilia thought it could be an allergy such as hayfever. The rash, however, soon spread to other part of Theo's body and it became obvious it was eczema.

Just a few months later, around Christmas, the couple, from Collier Wood in London, had to move Theo into their bed at night so they could hold down his arms and legs while he slept, because he was scratching himself so much that he and his bed would end up covered in blood.

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