A young boy with eczema so severe he spent the first six years of his life unable to sleep because of the pain has made a complete recovery in just three months after his mother discovered a miracle cream for him on Facebook.

Tyler Saunders, 6, started breaking out in painful rashes at just eight months old but his mother, Debbie Maddalena-Saunders, said she had no idea that as he grew, the severity of his skin condition would continue to worsen.

Ms Maddalena-Saunders, from Old Bar, north of Sydney, said she had reached breaking point after spending years nursing her son as he cried through the night in ‘excruciating’ pain, unable to go to school, play with his sister or even perform mundane tasks like walking.

Turning to social media in a desperate attempt to find a way to help her little boy, Ms Maddalena-Saunders came across a South African dermatologist whose cream was able to give young Tyler a new lease on life.

Dr Richard Aron posted promising results of his treatment plan – the Aron Regime – on the Eczema Association of Australasia Facebook page and after an online consultation the concerned mother had a script for a compounded cream made up of moisturiser, topical steroids and antibiotics.

‘[It was] made for age, weight and severity of eczema and a doctor here would oversee it,’ Ms Maddalena-Saunders told Yahoo Seven.

Tyler started using the cream in September and by November the boy who had previously been forced to wear socks on his hands to stop him tearing away at his inflamed skin had all but disappeared.

‘It was mind-blowing – he had always lived with such a heavy burden but then he had this light and spark behind his eyes,’ she told Kidspot.

Ms Maddalena-Saunders, who was prepared to travel to France to get Tyler alternative treatment, was completely blown away by the results and wanted to share his transformation with other eczema suffers to prove there is an effective treatment out there.

‘We are already down from four applications per day to two, but best of all – it works,’ she wrote.

‘He has some good days but those days would be most people’s nightmare. Other days were so bad I couldn’t film them,’ she told Kidspot.

But the images of her son crying and begging for relief have now been replaced by an active young boy who can’t seem to wipe the big, toothy grin from his face.

Now, the boy who once had to be carried around because the rash on his legs was so painful has a busking licence and has danced for crowds of people in Melbourne.

‘Watching him dance and seeing the joy in him after so much pain was overwhelming,’ she told Yahoo Seven.

‘I feel like crying every time I see him [dance] because he couldn’t do it for such a long time.’

But the ‘little warrior’ has not forgotten his past and selflessly donates a portion of his takings to the doctor who changed his life in the hopes he will continue helping other children just like him, according to Yahoo Seven.

‘He wanted to help other kids with eczema,’ Ms Maddalena-Saunders said.

By Belinda Grant Geary for the DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA

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