Do you know how atopic eczema feels like?

Welcome to atopical Lives

Atopic eczema (also known as atopic dermatitis) is much more than a skin disease, it affects the whole body of patients, their life and mental health.


The #AtopicalLives exhibition is an EFA project featuring real people affected by atopic eczema of different age groups, portraying for the first time the similarities and differences among patients in Europe.

#AtopicalLives video series

Under the skin you see
An endless race to find a balance between the constraints of your illness and the will to live to the fullest. Watch these atopic eczema patients on top of their lives, under the skin you see.
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Skin in the game
Daily treatments and family: children with atopic eczema learn early the importance of discipline to be healthy and play, skin in the game.
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Atopical Lives
The best happens when other people welcome you as you are, despite how the eczema looks today.
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#AtopicalLives Podcasts

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Episode 1 – A life with a skin disease
Could you imagine spending most of your childhood living in a hospital? In this episode, an anonymous 62-year-old woman from the Netherlands speaks freely about her life with atopic eczema. Listen to her experience coping with the disease at work, with family and in her daily life.
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Episode 2 – Growing up with atopic eczema
When a child has atopic eczema, it impacts the whole family. In this episode, a mother from Finland tells the story of her 13-year-old daughter. A loveable kid who enjoys school, but who everyday deals with constant itch. This episode shows how her family finds ways to support her.
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#AtopicalLives Galleries

Atopic eczema is much more than a chronic inflammatory skin disease. In these four galleries, discover the real-life stories of 19 patients from eight European countries and how the disease impacts their lives.
Look at me, I have atopic eczema
Gallery 1: Atopic eczema affects people of all ages and backgrounds. Meet them, they are not very different from you.
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My atopic eczema burden
Gallery 2: Patients with atopic eczema have to wait to have the right diagnosis and to access the right treatment. They also have to po with the cost of their care. 
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My atopic skin
Gallery 3: Body image and self-esteem are important for patients with atopical eczema, whose skin is fragile.
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My life with atopic eczema
Gallery 4: Apart feom frequent sleep disturbances and anxiety, eczema disrupts the live of patients and caregivers
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Discover the stories of patients by country

Browse through the country galleries and discover how life with atopic eczema unfolds for patients and their families.
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Eczma stories

Helder, 19, Portugal
Fay, 25, United Kingdom
Dean, 18, Great Britain
Victoria, 20, United Kingdom
Dirk, 52, Germany
Anna, 20, Sweden
Eva, 33, Netherlands
Michaela, 28, Germany

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Please remind that all photographs on the Atopical Lives website are in printing quality for non-commercial purposes only and require indication of copyright “© 2018 or 2022, Lurdes R. Basolí / EFA Atopical Lives Project”.

 

Please remember to comply with the mandatory attribution and make sure to read the terms of use below:

 

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The www.efanet.org site and its original content are owned by EFA – European Federation of Allergies and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations – and are protected by European copyright and intellectual property and proprietary rights laws. Your access to download and use of the pictures in www.efanet.org/campaigns/atopical is conditional on your acceptance of and compliance with the following terms of use:
 
1. Downloading the pictures does not grant any property rights but permission for use only. This permission can be revoked by EFA ex nunc at any time without a need for justification.
2. Downloading, distributing and publishing the pictures, in digital or printed form, is allowed for non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to license, sell, rent, lease, disclose, exhibit or otherwise commercially exploit the pictures.
3. No photograph will be retouched, cropped or transformed in any way. The original format of the images will be preserved.
4. Publishing the pictures in digital or printed form requires indication of copyright “© 2018, Lurdes R. Basolí / EFA Atopical Lives Project”
5. The pictures may be published in blogs and both online and print newspapers, journals and magazines when indicating copyright.
6. The pictures may be used for publication in digital and printed form only when being contextualized with atopic eczema.
7. Any use of the pictures without previously downloading them directly from www.efanet.org/campaigns/atopical is bound to the terms of use stated above. Any misuse will be pursued and has legal consequences. This is a legal contract. By downloading the picture you agree to be bound by these terms.

 

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Dear visitor,

 

Please remind that all photographs on the Atopical Lives website are in printing quality for non-commercial purposes only and require indication of copyright “© 2018, Lurdes R. Basolí / EFA Atopical Lives Project”.

 

Please remember to comply with the mandatory attribution and make sure to read the terms of use below:

 

Terms of Use

The www.efanet.org site and its original content are owned by EFA – European Federation of Allergies and Airways Diseases Patients’ Associations – and are protected by European copyright and intellectual property and proprietary rights laws. Your access to download and use of the pictures in www.efanet.org/campaigns/atopical is conditional on your acceptance of and compliance with the following terms of use:
 
1. Downloading the pictures does not grant any property rights but permission for use only. This permission can be revoked by EFA ex nunc at any time without a need for justification.
2. Downloading, distributing and publishing the pictures, in digital or printed form, is allowed for non-commercial use only. You are not allowed to license, sell, rent, lease, disclose, exhibit or otherwise commercially exploit the pictures.
3. No photograph will be retouched, cropped or transformed in any way. The original format of the images will be preserved.
4. Publishing the pictures in digital or printed form requires indication of copyright “© 2018, Lurdes R. Basolí / EFA Atopical Lives Project”
5. The pictures may be published in blogs and both online and print newspapers, journals and magazines when indicating copyright.
6. The pictures may be used for publication in digital and printed form only when being contextualized with atopic eczema.
7. Any use of the pictures without previously downloading them directly from www.efanet.org/campaigns/atopical is bound to the terms of use stated above. Any misuse will be pursued and has legal consequences. This is a legal contract. By downloading the picture you agree to be bound by these terms.
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