u/Useful_Silver6927

Been battling with eczema for almost a year now
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Been battling with eczema for almost a year now

Been on antibiotic and steroid for the past year but they always came back right after i stopped it.

I went through like 10 different derm and they all did the same thing. Some antibiotic and steroid. They never look at my eczema and only prescribe the same generic drugs. The last one simply said that's the whole regimen, there's nothing else she could do for me.

They mostly appear on my legs. At first it appears as a small red dot and will burst oozing yellow fluid after a couple of days, always no matter what I do (keep clean, moisturizer, Hocl,...). EDIT: more thing to add, I tried mupirocin on those spot without steroid and it doesn't do anything at all, could be resistance or maybe not infected? the fluid is quite yellow and thick though.

I noticed I had a small cut on my thigh and that turns into the same thing. So I suspected it's a staph infection? I got bitten my mosquito quite often so maybe it's infected bug bite? But it happens all the time out of nowhere (and only on my legs) so idk.

Here is when it's oozing: Oozing

Here is another spot that is not: Dry

They all form a crater like spot with red in the middle.

I'm planning to try to decolonize staph. But there's no mucipicin for nasal in my country. Read other post says you can use chlorhexidine or povidone but those are not safe for nasal so I'm too afraid to try.

Since the derm in my area has pretty given up and don't even let me visit them anymore. Any help is appreciated.

u/Useful_Silver6927 — 10 days ago