Dapto girl returns from France with glowing skin

Sept. 11, 2014, 9:30 p.m.

Bleach baths, bandages, bleeding - eczema has been more than just an itch for Dapto schoolgirl Holly Collins.

Six-year-old Holly Collins, official Eczema Awareness Week ambassador. Picture: ROBERT PEET

Bleach baths, bandages, bleeding - eczema has been more than just an itch for Dapto schoolgirl Holly Collins.

But the six-year-old, who is the face of this year's Eczema Awareness Week, has been able to start school without her full-body bandages thanks to a life-changing trip to the south of France.

There really must be something in the water at the Avene Hydrotherapy Centre near Montpellier where the local spring water was used to treat Holly's severe atopic eczema.

"She was always itchy, her skin was always weeping and bleeding, she was kept awake at night.''

Her mother, Julie, said the treatment had meant her little girl could live a normal life.

"Before the trip she had to constantly wear wet bandages all over her body which needed to be changed at least a dozen times in a 24-hour period," Mrs Collins said.

"She was always itchy, her skin was always weeping and bleeding, she was kept awake at night.

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