Daniela Velasco's skin looks healthy for the first time in 4 years. <\/p>\n
\"You see that it's quite normal now. It's unbelievable.\" <\/p>\n
Velasco suffers with severe eczema. <\/p>\n
The painful, itchy flareups would keep her up all night. <\/p>\n
\"The itch doesn't go away.\" <\/p>\n
In August, Velasco joined a study at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York that's testing a new drug called Dupilumab. <\/p>\n
She says the skin on her legs went from this...to this in just 10 days. <\/p>\n
\"Literally, they were disappearing, the wounds were closing. And it was such a quick change, so dramatic. Like from being extremely miserable to like, woah, this is what it feels like to be normal again.\" <\/p>\n
85 percent of the patients in the study taking the drug experienced similar results. <\/p>\n
Dr. Emma GuttmanYassky lead the research which found eczema is an immune driven disease. <\/p>\n
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