Charlotte is an eight year-old girl, who
developed atopic eczema at three months of age.
Her skin became red and inflamed, and was generalised all over her body,
her face was more severely affected with weepy infected areas on her
cheeks.
Charlotte’s parents have had to become
expert dermatology carers and support their daughter to adapt to living with
eczema and cope with daily life. Generally, Charlotte copes well in the day;
she loves school and her social activities. However, night-time is a difficult
time for Charlotte, she does not sleep throughout the night and often in the
morning she finds it hard to wake-up and can feel very tired during the
day. Her parents need to change the bed
on a daily basis as most of the damage to Charlotte’s skin occurs at night as
she is very restless and scratches in her sleep.
Charlotte was given a pair of DreamSkin pyjamas when she was 8 ½ years old and in year 3 at
school.
The night she first wore the pyjamas,
Charlotte slept throughout the whole night and this continued for the next
week. Over the next two weeks her skin
improved to the best it had ever been. Her parents were able to reduce her
topical corticosteroids down to a moderate preparation more rapidly than usual
as her skin was so much better. Charlotte was much brighter in the mornings for
her school day, waking up fresh and not feeling tired. Her parents said:
‘Charlotte is more rested, has slept better
and is more comfortable’.
Charlotte has
now been wearing the pyjamas every night for 4 weeks, they have not needed to
be washed daily (and now the bed only needs changing twice a week), as she is
not scratching there are no blood stains on the pyjamas or the bed linen.
Charlotte and her parents now say that they cannot do without DreamSkin pyjamas. Charlotte sums up by saying:
‘The best thing is when they are on; they
feel special and soothe me. They are cool and stop me being sore. I slept
straight through the night too.’
The positive effects for Charlotte and her
family, after ten days of wearing DreamSkin pyjamas are:
Itch significantly reduced
Skin is much improved
Cooler at night
Did not cry out in sleep, restlessness eliminated
No blood on night ware/bedclothes AM
Woke up fresh, no longer tired in mornings
Used less topical steroid
Reduced use of emollients
