'miracle' cream from asda

purplepatch

ethansmum wrote:

I have some for my daughter (4) to be honest I found it pretty useless- it made no difference whatsoever. Save your money - sadly this is no miracle worker, atleast not for us.

Hi, thanks for the post. Are you referring to the Elicina snail cream from Chile or the Asda cream that the thread was about originally? It was the snail stuff I was interested in.

If you are talking about Elicina, do you mind me asking what condition you got it for? It seems to have a fairly unique quality in treating rosacea (about 50% success rate as I understand it), which I hadn't heard of as being a children's complaint - think teens can get it occasionally but generally it's a condition of the 30s-50s.

As with everything there are plenty of people who say it did nothing for their rosacea but worsen the symptoms, while others say it has been a miracle cure and has got rid of all redness. When you see the misery that it causes the sufferer you can see why for the sake of £30 they will give it a go even if there is only a middling chance of it working.

calleyw

This is for purple patch.

I know nothing about the cream but watch the diet doctors on Channel 5 and they claim that alot of of people suffering rosacea can be helped with diet alone.

One woman they had on there after 3 months you would not have believed the difference in her face.

here is a link to what they say

Hope that helps you.

Yours


Calley

ethansmum

Purplepatch, sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the stuff that Asda are selling (hy-shield or pro-shield). My daughter has servere eczema - she is 4 now but has had it since she was 2 months old. She has a big problem with recurring impetigo which was one of the reasons why I really wished that this cream worked.

Sadly, I too have been told that diet might improve Sophie condition. However I'm very sceptical since she was breastfed till 7 months (even though the eczema started at 2 months) and despite changes to her diet we see no improvement. For her, she reacts to stress and changes in the weather.

I know exactly what you mean about wanting to spend any amount of money to help these terrible skin conditions. Heaven only knows all the lotions and potions I have bought for my baby- goat milk soap, aloe vera products, stuff off qvc, every dry skin remedy on the market in the UK! Fortunately we have the income to be able to afford to try anything that we come across. Its just that I have been so dissappointed after getting these creams and potions that seem to work miracles for everyone else but us. I have just learnt to accept that Sophie 'might' grow out of it but it is very unlikely.

I do hope that you can find something to help improve your condition. Like you say, if you can afford it, give it a go.

best wishes
Tracy

purplepatch

Ethansmum - you've probably already tried it, but on the offchance. One of the things that we tried for DH when we thought his rosacea was eczema was something called skinsalveation. It was a soap invented originally for miners who got dermatitis from the coal dust I believe. My mother in law saw an article about it in the Daily Mail.

Anyway it didn't do much for hubby, but both myself and my daughter suffer from eczema (albeit mildly) and whenever we get a patch we can zap it with this soap - the results can be seen almost overnight.

Edited to say don't be put off by them not specifically mentioning eczema on the website - there was some reason a while back why they had to change the wording to "itchy skin". Some of the testimonials still refer to it though, they make interesting reading.

ethansmum

Thanks Purplepatch- I will get some to try on Sophie

Savvy_Sue

Don't think I have mentioned the National Eczema Society in this discussion as eczema's only recently been mentioned. Would strongly recommend them to sufferers!