My husband’s stress eczema has been flaring on and off since we started packing, so I finally stopped guessing what set it off and started actually tracking it.
Nothing complicated, just three questions in my notes app every night before bed:
– hours he slept the night before
– anything new touching his skin (new detergent, new lotion, nothing)
– how stressed he seemed, 1 to 3
After 12 days of this, the pattern was obvious. Every single flare lined up with a night under 6 hours of sleep, not with anything new on his skin. The move’s been eating into his sleep way more than I realized, between late box runs and him still job hunting during the day.
Not changing any products for now. Just trying to get him to bed earlier, even if that means fewer boxes get packed that day. I genuinely thought it was the new laundry soap until I wrote this down and realized it wasn’t.