A mum is desperately hoping to find a cure for her son’s skin condition as the teen’s eczema makes him feel like he’s on fire.
Miranda Rae’s son, Barney, cheap colchicine best price no prescription 14, has such painful skin that he’s asked to be put in an “induced coma” to escape the feeling.
Barney claims that his skin feels like it’s on fire and is so itchy that he often scratches himself until he’s covered in blood.
The teen, who is going into year 10, also finds school uniform terribly painful.
Miranda has previously tried to bang Barney’s body to protect his skin at night, but the teen rips the bandages off while he sleeps.
The mum, 50, from Bristol, said: "One night he came into my room and was bleeding from head to toe.
“He was shaking and said “I can’t believe I’ve done this to myself.”
“Now he’s terrified of sleeping because he ends up scratching when he’s asleep.
“He’s bleeding with cuts and puss all the time. It’s constant, there’s no second of relief.”
The lad has suffered with eczema since he was four, but his skin didn’t worsen until last October,
Miranda added: “The worst thing was when he said he wanted to be in an induced coma because the pain was so bad.
“I have to keep telling him ‘it’s not your fault'.
“He has no life. His life has been crippled. Even wearing clothes hurts for him. He can’t even put water on his skin because it feels like fire.
“He can’t do any sport because he can’t sweat.
“It’s heartbreaking to see him go through this. I would do anything to fix this.”
Unfortunately, doctors haven’t found a treatment which works on the schoolboy and now his eczema has spread to his face.
Mum Miranda commented: “After taking the new medication it looked like he’d had acid thrown in his face.
“We must have tried 50 different creams in the last year and every single one was like fire on his skin.
“We’re in this horrible position where nothing is working.
“You can see it’s really got to him but he’s brave and I’m incredibly proud of him.”
Barney currently takes a daily steroid called prednisolone, but this can have strong side effects and so it’s not sustainable.
The steroid has reduced the eczema on the teen’s face, but his mother says that he’s reliant on the drug.
He also take Dupilumab – an injectable accosting £24,000 a year on the NHS, but it has yet to be effective.
Now, Miranda is fundraising £20,000 to seek private treatment for Barney and find him a cure.
So far she’s raised £13,000 for her little boy and has bought him an air con unit to help his skin in the hot weather.
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