Eczema made my childhood a misery. I'm so devastated I've passed it on to my son

By Frances Childs

PUBLISHED: 23:05 EST, 5 November 2012 | UPDATED: 23:06 EST, 5 November 2012

In it together: Suzanne Jones and her nine-year-old son Ben

When Suzanne Johns gave birth to her daughter Melissa 12 years ago, she couldnt wait to hold her and look at her for the first time.

But whenever Suzanne did hold her baby during those first few weeks, she couldnt help checking for signs of eczema the skin condition that had blighted her own life since childhood.

Suzanne, 41, who now has two children, recalls: Throughout my pregnancies I was terrified I might have passed eczema on to my babies.

When they were little I was constantly looking for dry, scaly skin.

'I desperately didnt want them to live with the pain, discomfort and embarrassment Id endured all my life.

Suzanne who lives in Yorkshire with her partner Colin, 39, her son Ben, nine, and Melissa developed severe eczema when she was 14 and suffered until her late 20s.

It started on her elbows, hands and the backs of her knees typical areas for sufferers.

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