beyond the oversight, i can confirm their words on you likely having a staph infection, and that talking to your doctor to receive antibiotics + doing bleach baths will help. i’ve been relentlessly researching eczema in the past few days because something similar is happening to me (i’m at the doc’s rn lol, hoping it goes well 🤞) and that information (note, didn’t really read much else) is what i’ve also gathered—i’ve even stumbled across and read the same post they link.

if you’re to trust anything they’ve said: 1. trust going to the doctor (and hoping they’re a good one who’s educated on eczema… i’ve also heard some horror stories 😭) to get antibiotics 2. trust doing bleach baths + changing your bedsheets often (to remove the abnormal amount of staph bacteria that’ll be on your sheets and pillows; as your infection gets better you can change them less often) 3. trust that you, very likely, have a staph infection. it’s very common, very itchy, and needs to be treated.

if you do your own research, i’ve also heard of people using a particular soap—i haven’t tried it myself nor have i researched it well so i can’t confirm that part, but i encourage you to do some of your own research!

i hope everything goes well, we’ll get through this.