A six-month-old baby suffered eczema so bad it looked like she had been shot.
A mother has spoken of the pain of seeing her six-month-old baby suffer from a common infection so bad it looked like she had been shot.Nikoletta Pezos recently returned home after spending six days in the hospital due to a severe outbreak that covered her entire body.
The eczema initially appeared on Nikoletta’s stomach and rapidly spread, resulting in large boils that resembled bullet wounds when they burst. In addition to the eczema, Nikoletta developed a serious staph infection, which led to her taking intravenous antibiotics to treat the condition.The young mother, who works as a teacher in Adelaide, said Nikoletta would wake up every hour in agony from itching.“You can’t explain to her, ‘this is temporary, we’ll be fine’. It’s pretty heart-wrenching.”
An Adelaide mother has spoken of the pain of seeing her six-month-old baby suffer eczema so bad it looked like “bullet wounds”.“Being in Australia and her being such a young baby, you want them to be exposed to water … I’m worried about how we’re going to have her at the beach, how are we going to have her in the sun?” she said.Australia has one of the highest incidences of eczema in the world.An estimated 1.
The Eczema Association of Australia found more than half of current eczema sufferers describe their condition as “chronic”, and 72 per cent say weather is the biggest trigger for flare ups.A leading dentist has spoken of the trauma of having to remove the teeth of a two-year-old who was bottle-fed Coca-Cola since birth.Peak health groups are pushing for a significant change to alcohol packaging, similar to what has been done with cigarettes.
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