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Anybody been diagnosed with facial seborrheic dermatitis and if so, any tips?

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yes - it affects my eyes also (so much so that it got the stage of not being able to open them) and I now have that under control with baby shampoo washes in the shower and either Vaseline or beeswax around my thinned eye skin. But I haven't got the forehead under control - using ketoconazole cream currently and it does seem a bit better.

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I have, or at least think I have SD? Apparently some skin conditions can be difficult to diagnose. SD was mentioned once or twice during my dermatology appointments as was rosacea. There's little doubt I have the latter but less certainty about SD. Anyway, perhaps some of these symptoms are similar to yours?...besides the typical rosacea rash on my face plus nasty weeping spots and pustules that take ages to heal. These also occur on my back, neck, chest and scalp. Crikey it looks like I'm asking advice off you rather than the other way around. :-)

I've tried topical antibiotic creams for the pustules etc, which did nothing to help, and Ivermactin cream for the rosacea, which seemed to help at first but less so later. Except for Dermol 500 ant-bacterial wash, I don't use anything now and both conditions are if anything slightly better than they were when using the prescribed stuff. Due to my problems with antibiotic resistance I refused to go on long term oral antibiotics, following which I was discharged as they could do nothing else to help me.

I also use Ketopine shampoo

Hope you have more success with your condition

edit...forgot to say that flare ups in both my RA and skin condition coincide with each other. All part and parcel of having a messed up immune system I guess.

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Thanks to everyone for their , as always,useful, informative comments.

Onwards and upwards........

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Hobbits

I have rosacea and a type of dermatitis called Perioral Dermatitis. It literally took 4 different doctors to diagnose. Everyone thought it was something else. Finally my dermatologist told me what it was.

Various doctors basically guessed what it was and gave me various medications.

PCP first gave my Ivermectin as she thought it was rosacea. ( I already had rosacea and she thought this was a more severe case?) it didn’t look anything like rosacea

Then another PCP (fill in, not my doctor) gave me Fucidin cortisone cream - she said it was a bacterial infection and also gave tetracycline for 20 days.

The cortisone cream made it much worse ( I later learned you do not put steroid cream on Perioral Dermatitis)

Then I happened to talk to my Gasterontologist who on the spot hooked me up with a very good Dermatologist at the hospital she was not my doctor and could not prescribe but took samples and I was now part of a study, she guessed it was Perioral

Then finally after months I got in to see my own Dermatologist he was trying a student doctor he asked her what it was and she was clueless Then he told her it’s Classic Perioral Dermatitis he told me never to put cortisone it any steroid cream on it as initially it will look like it’s getting better, then it will get much worse!

I was put on the only thing that would clear it up a two month course of antibiotics called Doxycycline - within about 4-6 weeks it started to disappear, and by end of treatment it was completely gone

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I've had SD my whole life, but didn't know it. I had it on my scalp and eyebrows. What I used to shampoo and how often didn't help. When I was little it was called "cradle cap" but it never went away with me. Mine is caused by excess candida, overproduction of yeast leading to a fungus outbreak--which was being aggravated by eating too much sugar--even from natural sources--and from foods like corn and wheat that my body was converting into sugar fairly quickly. My is mostly resolved by changing my diet. When I eat too much sugar, including fruit, my scalp will break out. So, I try to avoid too much sugar and recently have cut wheat out of my diet because of suspecting that I had wheat or gluten intolerance. Controlling my diet has helped tremendously. At one point, I had an outbreak because of antibiotics my dentist prescribed and he gave me a massive prescription to fluconazole for yeast infections. This helped the yeast get back to controllable levels.

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I have always had rosacea but only recently diagnosed with severe facial seb.dem. Mine also is due to reaction to yeast/Candida. The usual meds aggravated mine and I am allergic to many antibiotics but, after looking online for fellow sufferers, I tried,on their advice, Apple cider vinegar. I wash my face morning and night with this undiluted and it seems to control the redness. Worth a try!