Hi! My 6 year old DD1 has relatively mild asthma & eczema. The asthma seems fairly well controlled, and she is fairly good about taking her brown inhaler (though she rarely takes her blue - had it at school the whole of last year and only asked for it once, which either means she didnt need it or that she didnt WANT to ask for it). But she is very resistant about her eczema. She doesnt like the aqueous cream (says it's cold, yucky, etc). We add the bath oil to the bath, which she's ok about. And she will just about let us put on the hydrocortisone ointment she is prescribed. She says she likes scratching. She claims the aqueous cream hurts her face & neck - having checked with an adult friend with eczema this sounds unlikely. She even started bleeding in bed a couple of weeks back, which she's never done before. Normally she has a problem in late winter and is fairly ok in the summer, but this year she's been bad all through. It's SOOO frustrating. I hate to see her hurt herself. I've tried to explain to her that if I saw someone at school scratching her til she bled I'd be very cross and MAKE them stop, but what am I to do to her when she's the one hurting herself? Anyway, I've always threatened her with wet-wrapping since I read about it on Minti. Then a couple of weeks ago she asked to be wet wrapped. The novelty wore off after about a week but by then she had improved SO much. So thank you to those who wrote advice articles - some progress here AT LAST! | 
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