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Eczema triggers: what can make eczema worse?
Everyone we talked to could name at least one trigger which could make their eczema worse, and many different triggers were mentioned. This included people...
Young people visited medical professionals for a range of things, like:
The main sources of medical professional help used by the young people we spoke to were:
Some young people saw just one kind of medical professional for their eczema. Alice’s eczema has always been treated by GPs. Other people have seen different types of medical professionals about their eczema and compared experiences between them. Pharmacists helped Laura find a weak steroid to buy over-counter (without a doctor’s prescription), but she says that GPs can give stronger steroid treatment. She adds that ‘it’s even better if you could be referred and speak to a dermatologist’. Himesh prefers seeing dermatology nurses and finds there’s usually less of a wait to see them than for dermatology doctors.
Most people hadn’t talked to pharmacists about managing eczema, but a couple found it helpful. Sometimes other healthcare professionals helped with eczema, even though the person was seeing them for other reasons.
For more about getting medical help, see also the sections on repeat visits to medical appointments and what makes for supportive doctors/nurses.
Everyone we talked to could name at least one trigger which could make their eczema worse, and many different triggers were mentioned. This included people...
Some young people see GPs or their dermatologist frequently. Aisha remembers being 'in the doctors like every other week' for eczema when she was younger...