Three-year-old with painful eczema is 'shunned by strangers' who wrongly think his itchy, flaky skin is contagious

Roman Allen (right), from Milton Keynes, has suffered with eczema on his face since he was six months old. 


But his mother, Danielle (left), 25, says her son - whose cheeks crack and bleed as a result of the skin condition - regularly gets shunned in the street by strangers who accuse him of being 'contagious'. Some parents even recoil from Roman if they see him close by - snatching their own children away - wrongly fearing they will contract his condition. Mrs Allen, 25, said: 'I just wish people would stop treating my son like some kind of modern day leper.'