Student Physiotherapist

Case Study: 26-year old female Student Physiotherapist

She only had eczema as a eczema, but has since suffered from hand eczema for the past 2 years.

Although she hasn’t been seen by a healthcare professional, she is sure of her diagnosis, and thinks that she even knows the cause.

Her hand eczema, which is characterised by itching, followed by small blisters and cracked fingertips, began when she started physiotherapy training 2 years ago and is always worse at work.

She thinks that constant hand washing and alcohol gels in hospitals are responsible. She finds that it improves over weekends or when she is on holiday, but it has been particularly bad over the past few months.

She has tried moisturisers and antihistamine tablets, but still finds that it affects her professional life. Her hand eczema sometimes gets her down, and she finds that it affects her socially too - when her hands are bad, she tends to keep them in her pockets out of embarrassment.