Sept. 11, 2014, 9:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Bleach baths, bandages, bleeding - eczema has been more than just an itch for Dapto schoolgirl Holly Collins. <\/p>\n
Six-year-old Holly Collins, official Eczema Awareness Week ambassador. Picture: ROBERT PEET <\/p>\n
Bleach baths, bandages, bleeding - eczema has been more than just an itch for Dapto schoolgirl Holly Collins. <\/p>\n
But the six-year-old, who is the face of this year's Eczema Awareness Week, has been able to start school without her full-body bandages thanks to a life-changing trip to the south of France. <\/p>\n
There really must be something in the water at the Avene Hydrotherapy Centre near Montpellier where the local spring water was used to treat Holly's severe atopic eczema. <\/p>\n
\"She was always itchy, her skin was always weeping and bleeding, she was kept awake at night.'' <\/p>\n
Her mother, Julie, said the treatment had meant her little girl could live a normal life. <\/p>\n
\"Before the trip she had to constantly wear wet bandages all over her body which needed to be changed at least a dozen times in a 24-hour period,\" Mrs Collins said. <\/p>\n
\"She was always itchy, her skin was always weeping and bleeding, she was kept awake at night. <\/p>\n
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