According to the 25-year-old mom, Savannah, her 2-year-old son, Boaz, was nearly diagnosed with leprosy after his skin became addicted to a ‘cream prescribed by a doctor’.
The mother told the doctors that she first applied the cream when her son was just four months old because he had mild eczema and continued treatment for more than a year unknowingly causing further harm. The boy’s skin became so irritated from the cream that he was bedbound for weeks at a time and had to wear socks on his hands so he wouldn’t scratch his sensitive skin.
The baby’s skin has developed a painful response to the steroidal eczema cream. When Savannah took the boy off of eczema cream about six months ago, weeping sores and scabs began appearing all over his tiny body. Read the full story here ▶
