Thermal spring offers hope for eczema sufferers

The mother and father of 4-year-old Oldham boy Ryan Knott can scarcely remember a period when their boy has not been affected through the discomfort and constant itchiness of eczema.

Steroid creams assisted control outbreaks, but to determine their son covered in unbearably scratchy red-colored patches and suffering angry infections from constant itching was heartbreaking.

Then when mother Jeanette learned about your skin-soothing forces of the French spring, she and husband Bryn began planning to go to.

Now, after a rigorous three-week programme in the Avene Skin-related Health spa within the south of France, Ryan's condition has enhanced significantly.

The therapy, supervised through the spa's own skin doctors, centres on daily baths and showers while using Avene spring's unique thermal water.

Wealthy in skin-soothing silica and bicarbonates, water has got the press from French doctors, who send some 2,000 patients annually towards the health spa for strategy to skin disorders including eczema, skin psoriasis, excessive dryness, skin damage and burns.

Clinical tests have proven that Avene water suppresses allergic attack, reduces inflammation, stabilises skin cells and attempts infection-leading to staphylococcus bacteria from colonising onto the skin.

The spa's skin doctors claim treatment can help to eliminate patients' signs and symptoms by as much as 90 percent, and say a 50 percent improvement is usual, with children frequently reacting faster than grown ups.

Ryan showed up in the health spa for assessment in the center of a flare-up. 'He was very lethargic,' states Bryn. 'His skin was inflamed throughout and the neck particularly was very red-colored and sore.

'He were built with a 20-minute health spa bath your evening - he was too sore for that shower - by evening-time the soreness had already began to subside - you can really begin to see the redness diminishing.'

For the following three days, additionally to his usual steroid cream treatment, Ryan had one 20-minute bath and 2 10-minute showers each day, along with a specific needle-spray shower. He seemed to be urged to consume the Avene water.

'We thought his eczema would break out again after we got home,' states Jeanette, 'but I mist his body and face with canned Avene water and employ an Avene water-based cleansing gel within the bath and - fortunately - it's rarely really return.

'I'd say his condition has enhanced by about 70 percent. We rarely want to use steroid cream on his neck and face now, along with the relaxation of his body, we sometimes can pull off using cream just daily.

'He's eating much better, began sleeping better, and he's certainly got much more energy. He has not were built with a skin infection for age range because he's itching much less, and nowadays, if he's a poor day, I understand his skin will most likely be okay each morning. Before, flare-ups could continue for days.'

The Knott family plan revisit Avene in June the coming year for any second round of treatment, and aspire to see further improvement in Ryan's condition.

'We don't claim water will cure eczema,' states health spa director Marie-Ange Martincic, 'but the therapy is made to help people decrease their want to use anabolic steroids to manage their condition.'

Treatment in the Avene health spa costs around ?15 each day. To learn more concerning the health spa, and also to find your nearest Avene product store, call 0845 117 0116.