Living

Does your workplace cause you to flare up? In addition to being an eczema advocate, facilitator, and speaker, I currently manage my family's bakery in Northern New Jersey. While this...

Exercise is important to everyone, it is good to keep healthy on both the inside and outside. Mentally it makes people feel better about themselves and others around them. Physically it makes...

There are about 30 million people in the United States living with some form of eczema. That means there's an entire community out there who understands the day-to-day challenges of...

It is well known that October is breast cancer awareness month, but in the past few years being more active in the chronic health community I realized that October is...

October is in full swing! Everything is falling — the temperature, leaves, and even my electric bill. These are all great things to be excited for along with football, cider...

At times, there can be a clear distinction between us, the people who live with eczema, and those who go day-to-day without any skin problems. Those moments are sometimes most...

Emotional intelligence is a term that relates to having control of personal emotions and empathy within your relationships. Despite reading books and taking courses that focused on the balance of...

Some comments are eye-roll worthy, some are downright annoying, and others can be just plain mean. On top of living with a skin condition that we have no control over...

Are you one of the many people with "The Trifecta"? The terrible three: asthma, eczema, and allergies. I am one of those people. I have had all three my entire life. I grew up...

Sometimes the comments that people make about our skin are eye-roll worthy, but others are just plain annoying. From offering advice on what we should use on our skin to...

The following was written in a moment of frustration and desperation during the recent heatwave, in hopes that writing would somehow help me focus and release the anger from my...

Atopic dermatitis is a chronic condition that affects approximately 16 million adults in the US. It is estimated that 10% of the children in the US suffer from this condition...

In these days of instant access to information, one thought or one page leads to a different thought and a different page, and then another. I started researching alopecia and...

Starting back in 2016 I started to get very hot and itchy hands and feet. My feet would feel like they were on fire and my hands would be hot and...

Imagine it taking over 20 years to gain information that would alter your life dramatically. Like trying ice cream or pizza or french fries in your adulthood for the first...

"I'm fine." Stop lying to yourself. These two words are a bald-faced lie, and you know it. Why, these two seemingly harmless words do you and our community a disservice...

We've talked about why it's hard to open up about eczema, how some found the courage to start talking about their skin, and how the advocates at AtopicDermatitis.net came to...

I am so frustrated! I just finished vacuuming and dusting, then walked back into the living room only to see my dark couch displaying my dry skin flakes. Like a...

I have suffered from eczema all my life, but I had it managed for most of my life up until 2014. Something changed in my body in 2014 and my immune...

Finding suitable products that don’t irritate sensitive, eczema-prone skin is a routine chore in my house — kind of like laundry. And, like laundry, it seems to never end. At...