Eczema Awareness Month 2023: #OneThingAboutEczema

For Eczema Awareness Month, the National Eczema Association (NEA) aims to bring greater attention to eczema’s physical and mental impact, while also working to reduce stigma and build compassion for the eczema community. Each year, NEA selects a theme to encourage people with eczema and their loved ones to join the conversation and help raise awareness. For October 2023, NEA called on community members to share #OneThingAboutEczema.

#OneThingAboutEczema

Through social media-driven calls to action, people shared short videos and social media posts calling out the one, most important thing they wanted more people to know about eczema. The goal was to not only share relatable stories and facts about eczema, but also to highlight the different perspectives that make each eczema experience unique.

Here are a few submissions:

Kyle Bruner, a young adult living with eczema: “I wish more healthcare providers knew how much pain and suffering we truly go through. The late nights and early mornings unable to sleep or stay asleep. The constant urge to scratch until you bleed. Eczema is serious and it needs to be understood that way.” 

Maisie Paredes-Wong, a mother and eczema caregiver for her son, Jeremy: “Obviously, eczema impacts the self-image of those affected and I hadn’t really thought about it impacting me, as a caregiver. But it has. I didn’t feel ‘enough.’ I didn’t feel I was doing enough, didn’t feel I was a good enough mom because I couldn’t make it better — and because all my friends’ babies were sleeping through the night and mine wasn’t!” 

Hello, Times Square!

NEA also featured a #OneThingAboutEczema billboard in New York City’s Times Square to help raise awareness of the 31 million Americans living with this chronic skin condition. The billboard displayed photos of people with eczema and eczema caregivers alongside their powerful insights on how eczema impacts them personally.

Read more #OneThingAboutEczema insights from the community in the fall 2023 issue of NEA Magazine.  

Get involved with Eczema Awareness Month 

Learn more about Eczema Awareness Month, and follow NEA on social media @NationalEczema to join the conversation.