By Cheryl Clark
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
April 30, 2007
In his first year of life, Joel Nelson was a miserable baby. His face, arms, feet and back were so dry that his skin bled and oozed with infection. He cried when his mother removed clothes that had stuck to his wounds.
“Often when I was shopping with my son, people would look at us as if they thought it was child abuse,” said his mother, Jenece Nelson of Chula Vista.
Joel was in such pain that Nelson brought him the emergency room 30 times that year.
The boy has a severe form of eczema, a chronic and non-contagious skin condition that affects 15 percent to 20 percent of children and 10 percent of adults. Symptoms include rashes, blisters and dry, scaly and itchy skin that can bleed and cause infections when scratched.
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