Woman tells eczema cream caused her skin to BURN so badly nurses thought she’d been in fire: REPORTS

A 34-year-old lady reported feeling “like a monster” after an eczema treatment left her body “scorching red and gushing fluid” due to topical steroid withdrawal. When Cecilia French, of San Francisco, California, was taken to the emergency department with blistering skin caused by a steroid cream, nurses suspected she had been in a fire.

Her body felt like it had been “lit on fire” at times, she added, as she had severe flare-ups of rashes as a result of long-term usage of the eczema treatment. French, a floor lead at a printing press, disliked leaving the house because of the severe symptoms and “stares” from strangers.

The 34-year-old developed eczema symptoms as a baby, and while she doesn’t recall how the ailment impacted her as a youngster, she does recall the rashes and inflammations she encountered as a teenager. As an adult, Cecilia’s condition worsened to the point where she could scarcely endure the discomfort of the crimson, oozing, and incredibly deep itch.

But her horror didn’t start until physicians administered her steroid cream as a remedy for her symptoms, which she said resulted in her being hospitalized with skin so terrible that she appeared like a burns victim. Cecilia was administered prednisone, a corticosteroid, and instructed to combine the pills with a lotion or cream of her choice.

She only used the lotion when she needed it, and while it worked initially, she quickly developed severe symptoms. “I would go on with my life,” she told NeedToKnow.online, “but my flares would be red, hot, scorching itching, and occasionally wet.”

“I started getting awful symptoms pretty early on after taking the lotion,” she stated. Cecilia said that the symptoms became so severe that she spent nearly a “whole year” in her bathtub to cope.

“I spent over a year in my bathtub for six to eight hours a day altogether, often splitting the time between mornings before I had to go to work and evenings falling asleep for the night,” she explained