A desperate mum has described her horror when her little boy's eczema got so bad he would wake up in blood stained sheets. Rebecca Hughes, 32, from Bristol, first noticed that her 16-week-old son Leo’s skin was agitated on his cheek when the area turned red and dry in June.
His mum tried to soothe him by applying healing creams and putting scratch mitts on his hands before bed, but nothing worked.
Rebecca, who works as a compliance administrator, would find blood covering Leo's bedsheets most mornings, as well as fresh cuts on his face from where he had fidgeted and irritated his skin.
She was unable to take her son to the see the doctor due to lockdown and discussions with her GP over the phone were fruitless, after the first-time-mum