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Originally Posted by DanaC

@ Dar, I totally get that. My first thought was: "Shit....no hydrous ointment, or Oilatum, or Ventolin."

I don't think I would want to continue in a world that didn't have well-balanced hydrating creams and ointments. I'd be most likely to end up with some hideous skin infection against which anti-biotics might have been fine but against which I would no longer have a defence. I wouldn't dare wash my face because without cream to put on afterwards the skin stiffens to a mask. I'd have no response to the itch, the pain or the debilitating effects. None.

That scares the shit out of me. Really it does. Probably my worst nightmare. Along with not having an inhaler to hand when asthma flares.

If my loved ones are still about after The Event, then I'd probably hope to have a decent supply of creams and emollients and ventolin.

If they weren't about, then there would be little point in continuing anyway and going through the hell of untreated/able eczema. So I'd just hope I had the guts to go through with killing myself ahead of that.

Cheery huh? You'd never guess I was basically an optimist :P

Well, here's a more optimistic way to look at it: for the first few weeks/months, your eczema would probably get worse because the only things to eat at first would be the heavily-processed stuff that survived on the shelf while the retailer was melted by the flesh-eating bacteria (or whatever it is that we're saying everyone else died of.) But then, assuming you lived past that stage, your eczema would probably get much, much better, as food became nothing but raw fruits/vegetables grown in everyone's piddly little hobo gardens, and the occasional stray animal cooked over a campfire. Ain't no sweets and candies after the apocalypse, m'dear.