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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Rikki Loftus

Woman left housebound in ‘searing pain’ after face started to swell

A woman whose face swelled after suffering topical steroid withdrawal from her eczema cream has said the condition was so painful she could barely open her eyes or move but is now ready to have her “normal life back” after a high street cream started to calm her skin “within an hour”.

Morgan Caldwell, 23, who works in marketing, did not leave her house for a month, in December 2022, after she suffered swelling on her face and a red rash across her body due to withdrawal from the steroid cream she had used to cure her eczema.

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