10:00am Saturday 24th September 2011
By Kathie Griffiths
You’ve got to hand it to him – sports journalist John Fuller has come up with a novel way of raising awareness about living with eczema.
The 34-year-old from Highfield Terrace, Shipley, wore wicket-keeping gloves for a whole day to show just how awkward life can be for sufferers of hand eczema. He said: “I don’t have hand eczema but I do have the condition elsewhere. I had it as a child then it disappeared and came back when I was 21 – which happens quite a lot.
“Hand eczema can be a nightmare to live with. Sometimes people have to wear gloves to stop their hands getting infected and that can really get in the way.”
The gloves Mr Fuller was wearing belonged to Yorkshire wicket-keeper Gerard Brophy.
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