the liver problem isn't mine, I'm asking on behalf of a friend for his grandmother. The eczema is the worst around my eyes. I've been trying lots of things from the various threads. It's just an example. I've never had a MD, dermotologist or GP, suggest anything topical other than cortisone or hydrocortosone, since I was a kid. And not much warning about thinning of the skin.

When my eczema flares up usually I've been eating the wrong stuff~! I find if I eat too much of the night shade vegetables [tomatoes, potatoes, green peppers, eggplant, which are actually fruits] that'll do it or too much really salty foods like chips etc........Recently we went to the coast for a vacation and when I got back I broke out, all over my little body...haaa~! And I'd been eating crappy [junk food is so much fun on vacation] therefore I knew what I'd done. I immediately shed the junk and it quickly cleared up.

AT one time [back when] especially during the summer months I'd have these little blister red raised type things on my elbows fingers etc. Now I seldom have them, but if I do I know how to get rid of them when I do.

AND yes they gave me cortisone creams too. Which worked as long as you used the creams but as soon as you stopped it came back.....I knew that couldnt go on forever so I found other ways to combat the malady. Cortisone is a yuky drug as far as I'm concerned only to be used in dire circumstances. ....or for very short periods. That's my OPINON and I'm sticking to it......*Laughing*