The pain was too agonising for Ryan Harding to bear. Pus oozed from his blisters, his body red and crusty. Curled up in a ball on his bedroom floor, Ryan began to cry.
The 28-year-old plumber had never experienced eczema like this before. But taking prescribed steroid tablets, the patches behind his legs began to spread across his entire body – leaving him housebound for most of the year.
“I’ve tried to put on a brave face, but some days I spend the whole day in bed,” Ryan, from Mossley, Tameside, told the Manchester Evening News.
