While I do not want to defend a pharmaceutical giant, I would like to take slight issue with the above article describing eczema as a common skin rash. Yes its common and yes its a rash but this doesnt come close to describing the sheer torture of this disease. At its worst bits of me went green and I very nearly got septicaemia. To say nothing of the constant vicious itching. You stick to your clothes. You get blood over everything. Skin flakes and scabs fall off you. When I was a child my gran would just hoover the stuff out of my bed. Great cracks open in your skin everywhere making movement painful to the point of being disabled. I wished I was dead. If someone had given me a cream then which would have improved my quality of life in the short term, even with its risk of cancer, I would have taken it. I still would if I had a relapse.
I now take evening primrose oil, which works for me,(also butterbur is good for allergies generally).
I used to get evening primrose on the NHS but in their wisdom they withdrew it after one short study saying there was no proof it worked. If the drug companies and government strangle the herbal & vitamin market like they appear to want to do, then lots of people like me will probably go back to being disabled.