By Maria Lally <\/p>\n
PUBLISHED: 19:12 EST, 18 March 2013 | UPDATED: 19:12 EST, 18 March 2013 <\/p>\n
Looking down at my 20-month-old daughter Sophias feet, my heart nearly broke. <\/p>\n
The skin was angry, cracked and bloody.<\/p>\n
She had similar patches on her legs, tummy, back and arms and was frantically scratching any area she could reach until the skin split.<\/p>\n
I tried gently to restrain her but it just upset us both further.<\/p>\n
'Sophia had seen various GPs for eczema every month or so for as long as I could remember,' said Maria Lally, pictured with daughter Sophia <\/p>\n
The next day I took her to our GP again. He took a brief look at her feet (by now so red and scabbed they looked burnt), said hed seen worse, then handed me yet another prescription for steroid cream, even though I told him we had several half-used tubs at home.<\/p>\n
Sophia had seen various GPs for eczema every month or so for as long as I could remember. Each time wed been given steroid creams with barely a word.<\/p>\n
Then, just after her second birthday, she suffered a vomiting bug and for two days had just water and dry toast. Her skin became beautifully clear.<\/p>\n
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