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A young boy with eczema so severe he spent the first six years of his life unable to sleep because of the pain has made a complete recovery in just three months after his mother discovered a miracle cream for him on Facebook.

Tyler Saunders, 6, started breaking out in painful rashes at just eight months old but his mother, Debbie Maddalena-Saunders, said she had no idea that as he grew, the severity of his skin condition would continue to worsen.

Ms Maddalena-Saunders, from Old Bar, north of Sydney, said she had reached breaking point after spending years nursing her son as he cried through the night in ‘excruciating’ pain, unable to go to school, play with his sister or even perform mundane tasks like walking.

© Debbie Maddalena-Saunders
© Debbie Maddalena-Saunders

Turning to social media in a desperate attempt to find a way to help her little boy, Ms Maddalena-Saunders came across a South African dermatologist whose cream was able to give young Tyler a new lease on life.

Dr Richard Aron posted promising results of his treatment plan – the Aron Regime – on the Eczema Association of Australasia Facebook page and after an online consultation the concerned mother had a script for a compounded cream made up of moisturiser, topical steroids and antibiotics.

‘[It was] made for age, weight and severity of eczema and a doctor here would oversee it,’ Ms Maddalena-Saunders told Yahoo Seven.

Tyler started using the cream in September and by November the boy who had previously been forced to wear socks on his hands to stop him tearing away at his inflamed skin had all but disappeared.

‘It was mind-blowing – he had always lived with such a heavy burden but then he had this light and spark behind his eyes,’ she told Kidspot.

Ms Maddalena-Saunders, who was prepared to travel to France to get Tyler alternative treatment, was completely blown away by the results and wanted to share his transformation with other eczema suffers to prove there is an effective treatment out there.

‘We are already down from four applications per day to two, but best of all – it works,’ she wrote.

© Debbie Maddalena-Saunders
© Debbie Maddalena-Saunders

‘He has some good days but those days would be most people’s nightmare. Other days were so bad I couldn’t film them,’ she told Kidspot.

But the images of her son crying and begging for relief have now been replaced by an active young boy who can’t seem to wipe the big, toothy grin from his face.

Now, the boy who once had to be carried around because the rash on his legs was so painful has a busking licence and has danced for crowds of people in Melbourne.

‘Watching him dance and seeing the joy in him after so much pain was overwhelming,’ she told Yahoo Seven.

‘I feel like crying every time I see him [dance] because he couldn’t do it for such a long time.’

Tyler running without eczema_Daily Mail_Facebook
© Debbie Maddalena-Saunders

But the ‘little warrior’ has not forgotten his past and selflessly donates a portion of his takings to the doctor who changed his life in the hopes he will continue helping other children just like him, according to Yahoo Seven.

‘He wanted to help other kids with eczema,’ Ms Maddalena-Saunders said.

By Belinda Grant Geary for the DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

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  • How fabulous is that. I get eczema I wonder how it’d work for me

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  • My kids don’t have eczema but I had it myself for many years and know how impacting it can be on your feeling of well-being. Glad this mum found a cure for her boy by this South African doctor.

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  • I love happy stories like this. so happy for this little guy.

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  • wow what an improvement. As a fellow sufferer i know how hard it can be.

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  • addicted to this/finding out more! don’t want to pay the dollars though… anyone use this and can tell me the magical ingriendents to get my dr to prescribe please???

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  • I had a friend once who’s little boy had really bad eczema. You would often see him wrapped in bandages because of open sores and to stop him from scratching himself. She used to slather him in cream and wrap him in glad wrap and bandages every night. Eczema can be quite dreadful

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  • Wow, a miracle indeed! So happy for the family, no one should have to live in such pain, especially a child. Woohoo!

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  • That is amazing. I’m so glad she found the cream and it worked. I had eczema as a child

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  • I know of a boy who when little was living in Adelaide had such severe eczema that he could hardly walk. After extensive tests trying to find the source of allergy triggers they realised the more they washed or bathed him the worse it got, even when they used only clear water. His Dad requested a transfer and they moved interstate to where they had transferred from and his eczema started to improve within a fortnight. Needless to say his Dad will not be accepting another transfer to Adelaide.


    • Oh! That’s quite special. Could it be a difference in the quality of water then?



      • I know a boy who’s eczema improved when he swam in the ocean. Makes you wonder how much we actually contribute to it

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  • What a big difference. That cream was really miraculous.
    I’ve never suffered of eczema, but I’ve got one friend whose eczema gets worse when she stresses a lot.

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