I was hospitalised often a few years ago for secondary infections, and when eczema was over at least 90 percent of my body, Luckily it hasnt been as bad a that for a while, I used to be happy about going in because it helped the skin to get better in a small amount of time and it was RR for me, Usually when my skin is so bad it gets that smell, the skin is kind of dry and sticky from scratching and their are a few sleepless nites as well, the other thing is when its so bad you cant really do anything becase of the tiredness from not sleeping and because the body is fighting the infection, I hate going in their now because i get worried about that MRSA

MRSA what is that?

MRSA is a superbug, I have been tested for it luckily i dont have it but it is a bacteria thingee that if you have it u never loose it and it lives in wounds as far as i know, It should be on google, What they do is they test you if you get admited and they will take swabs from the inside of your nose and in the nether reigon as well

I have been hospitalised 3 times for it in the last 3 years. The first time i had eurytheredermic eczema (all the skin was red all over and i was severly dehydrated). The next time for eczema herpeticum and a strep and staph infection and the last time for a staph infection. Each time i was coated in steroid creams, bandaged from the neck down and put on a rehydration regime. However i do have severe eczema which is still not under control x

When i was hospitalised for eczema they put me on 3 wetwraps a day, smoothered me in Beta cream and wrapped me up, First i was given a potassium magnmate(purple) bath to kill the bad bacteria on skin and then wet wraps and once my skin was a bit better they would give me light treatment

So then afterwards what, did they have you live in a bubble and regrow the good bacteria?
Not meaning to be rude at all. Just stating the fact of: Gardening for example. If you use pesticides as prevention, you are also killing good bugs. In 100% of the cases I have found. The bad bugs reproduce 10 times as fast as the bad bugs. You have to set up a eco balance.
In the mean time generally you are only killing some of the baddies, and the ones living are building up an incredible tolerance to these pesticides.

I was hospitalized for this off and on my whole life. They put me in for about 3 days or so with IV's and a sedative to help with the scratching. My secondary infections were usually cellulitis. But *knock on wood* I havn't any flare up bad enough to land back in the hospital for about 3 yrs now... *woot woot*

hi, i were hospitalised twice in the past month, first time my skin were really dry,red and irritated all over and were really dehydrated, my skin were constantly weeping and when i woke in the morning and the bed coveres were covered with blood. it is still not under controll but at least i am not alone and all the people on this sight understands what i am going through. xx

Oh wow. I never knew people were hospitalized. I've got severe eczema as well and I've gone to the emergency room countless times because it got so bad, but they always gave me strong steroid pills to clear up the infections, gut protectors to protect my stomach from those steroid pills, and steroid creams and then sent me home to combat it on my own. Or well, with the help of my mom and her strict, strict ethnic cures perhaps. It caused a lot of tears, some yelling, and plenty ruined pajamas and bed sheets from all the sheer gunk she slathered all over me. And raw flare up + rubbing alcohol is just....ouch.

beimprobable, please tell us about your Mom's strong ethnic cures. I have found over the years that Mom's are brilliant at coming up with unique remedies for illness. I am a firm believer in some of these treatments/cures because I have found a number of them to work very well for various aliments. Please share, if you can. Thank you in advance.

Aside from infection when you are head to toe it is very difficult to regulate your body temperature, which causes a host of other problems,