A woman has shared her horrific ordeal of using steroid creams to treat her mild eczema – leaving her with "oozing" skin, hair loss and self-esteem issues.
Rhianna Burns, a warehouse worker from Manchester, began suffering with small patches of eczema on her elbows as a child, which spread to her neck as she got older. As a child, the 22-year-old felt self-conscious about her skin and would try to hide her patches after school peers pointed them out to her.
When she turned 13, Rhianna consulted her doctor and a dermatologist, who both prescribed topical steroid creams, which, at first, worked wonders. Soon however, she became trapped in a nightmare that she is still clawing her way out of as she started losing her hair, including her eyebrows, and struggling with terrible pain.
