Being A Parent To A Child With Eczema



Written By: Felecia Causey and Samantha

Photos Provided By: Samantha



As a fellow mother to a child with eczema, I remember all the late nights crying and the scratching my daughter did until she made herself bleed. There isn’t a mother that wouldn’t do anything to stop the discomfort or pain of their children. As you watch people, teachers, or kids not understanding what is going on or think it’s contagious is heartbreaking. After many doctor visits and visiting specialists, hope was hard to find. As a mother I realized that I must continue to fight for her, as well as never giving up. 

With there being thousands of companies on the market that say that their products help with eczema, that can become really expensive trying to try them all.  My daughter, now 16, still has flare ups, but with her dad and I researching home remedies that worked for us, things have gotten a lot better. She still has scars from the scratching and the flare ups. I remember I had a family member making a joke when my daughter was about two years old that her skin looked burned. It wasn’t funny then and I sure don’t find it funny now. Let's just say I have too much of nothing to say to this person. 

 

 


I recently came across Samantha’s TikTok where she shares her son’s journey, who has an extreme case of eczema.  Please be sure to follow her son’s journey. Please be sure to pray for this mama and her sweet baby. As many mothers that have a child with eczema, that has been to many doctor visits, tried so many products, to not receive any answers for help, and feeling helpless for your child.

TikTok: @deylovinslim




 

Hello I'm Samantha, I'm a mother of two kids, a girl that's 3 and my son that's 1 year old. My son was born at 35 weeks, and he was healthy. As days went by I started to notice patches on his skin. I began to get worried, so I decided to take him to the doctor. They told me this was normal, but as the month passed it began to get worse.  My son would cry because of the pain, and neither one of us was getting any sleep.  As a mother I was worried, I was stressed, and I felt like I was going downhill, and I couldn’t get any help from anyone.  

 





I had to wrap him up every night with triamcinolone cream and hydrocortisone. We are currently using a stronger steroid. It’s not getting easier, but it has gotten better. My son’s skin is slowly getting there, with me just being persistent and doing the work myself.



I just wish a doctor or specialist could tell what it is without just guessing and not doing any tests. With everything being about money, it’s hard to get the help I need.  My baby is one year old, and didn’t ask for this.  I know he is uncomfortable, and I just love him to death. I try my best to keep him comfortable and calm the best way I can, but it’s hard when nothing is working. I even wash his clothes in unscented detergent.  We have been to the hospital back to back, but have just been sent home. We have also visited the dermatologist three times.



 

I feel like I shouldn’t have to sit there and my son’s skin be cut off his body, just to test it, and tell me it’s eczema, when I think it’s more.  I’m frustrated, but I am doing fine day by day.





 At the beginning  people were saying a lot of bad things .  They were saying things like he was ugly eww I don’t want him to touch me, clean him, and I hope he dies.  We have gotten a lot of negativity, but I have decided to stop worrying. 






I want to show him that he is no different than anyone, he is handsome, he is perfect and he will not be like that forever. I just came to accept it all myself and show him as much love as I can because he didn't ask to be that way. 






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