Skintastic news.

Gooby post title notwithstanding, we have seen some progress with Toot and his eczema. For... gosh... what seems like forever, he has taken a 12 hour antihistamine every night to help control the breakouts/hot spots on his skin. And, during the worst of his breakouts, the medicine supposedly also helped him to sleep through at least some of the itching.

The trade-off, though, was that the medicine contributed to the drying out of his skin. You'd think that it would be counterproductive to give someone with eczema a medicine that almost exacerbated his problems. But, from time to time, we would forget to give him his medicine at night, and could always tell by the next evening that he didn't have it the night before. i.e. his skin would be worse. So, we continued the antihistamine.

Well! We had another forgetful moment a couple of weeks ago. BUT, this time, his skin didn't seem to be worse the next day. So, Hmmmm, says I - let's not give him the medicine again. Again, no major new breakouts the next day. Oooh! And again, we kept the medicine bottle in the cabinet when it was time to go to bed. And on and on.... and now he is 2-3 weeks free of antihistamine!

No, he hasn't suddenly cleared up or anything. But, the eczema isn't any worse. AND, his skin is not as dry - which is a HUGE deal. SO, to be able to be weaned off of the medicine is definite progress!

I realize that when we hit pollen season and summer, that things may change. But, for him to have shown this progress makes us have reasonable hope that he may be in a process of growing out of the worse parts of the problem. Praise the Lord for this good news!