Man is healing his eczema with a Japanese 'no moisture treatment'
Channel: The OverSeaTV
Date: 2022-01-14

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Man is healing his eczema with a Japanese 'no moisture treatment'
A healthy young man has been left unable to take care of himself after suffering from a unique out-of-control skin condition.
Jorden Hendey, from northern New South Wales, has been experiencing 'Topical Steroid Withdrawal' (TSW) consequently from overusing steroid cream for 20 years to relieve his eczema, leaving his skin incredibly flaky.
As his skin is healing, the 26-year-old avoids going in the sun, constantly wears long sleeved clothes and is unable to bathe himself. 
Jordan told FEMAIL he chose to stop using the doctor-recommended cream before Christmas and now his skin is constantly itchy and irritating trying to heal itself without moisture.
Topical Steroid Withdrawal is a term used to describe the collection of symptoms that arise after a person stops using prolonged topical steroid medication.
Jordan, a marketing agency owner, has been battling eczema since he was a child and as he got older it started spreading over his body.
While doctors constantly said he would simply 'grow out of it', he said this never occurred.
'I was confused as to why my eczema wasn't going away and didn't realise what was going on until five years ago,' he said.
'It was constantly getting worse and my lifestyle was getting harder and harder - anything outdoors like going to the beach or camping was a nightmare.'
In 2016 at the age of 20 he realised the reason why his skin was worsening was because of the addiction to steroid cream.
'Doctors recommended using the cream for seven days until the eczema disappeared, but I would use it for 14 days to keep it away,' Jordan said, which continued to be an ongoing cycle. 
Jordan, a marketing agency owner, has been battling eczema since he was a child and as he got older it started spreading over his body.
While doctors constantly said he would simply 'grow out of it', he said this never occurred.
'I was confused as to why my eczema wasn't going away and didn't realise what was going on until five years ago,' he said.
'It was constantly getting worse and my lifestyle was getting harder and harder - anything outdoors like going to the beach or camping was a nightmare.'
In 2016 at the age of 20 he realised the reason why his skin was worsening was because of the addiction to steroid cream.
'Doctors recommended using the cream for seven days until the eczema disappeared, but I would use it for 14 days to keep it away,' Jordan said, which continued to be an ongoing cycle. 
When he was 20 he stopped using the medication only to find his skin turned bright red overnight. 
In March 2016 he visited a naturopath who advised to have a blood test to test for any parasites in his body, but doctors found something more sinister. 
'Late one Saturday night I received a random phone call thinking it was my brother, but it was the doctors telling me I needed to get to a hospital as soon as possible,' he said. 
'I asked if it could wait to the morning but they said it's an emergency.' 
The test detected two blood infections due to his delicate skin, even though he had no symptoms and 'felt fine'. 
'It was incredibly scary, I could've died from it, and I was on a drip for about a month later,' he said.