Charlotte's Story

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

To find out how DreamSkin could help you or a loved one visit www.dreamskinhealth.co.uk