A secondary school teacher who believes her skin has become “addicted to steroid creams” now vacuums her bed every morning as she sheds it “like a snake” in her sleep after ‘going cold turkey following 44 years of using the treatments.
First prescribed corticosteroid creams when she was around 10 for a “small patches of eczema” on her elbows, knees and hands, mother-of-two Nicky Higgs, 54, finally stopped using them altogether in January 2021, as if she stopped and started applications her symptoms flared up uncontrollably.
