About 2 months ago, I was diagnosed with perioral dermatitis after using Nasonex nasal spray. The theory is that a year plus use of the spray may have caused it to get on the area around my nose and cause the perioral dermatitis. I promptly stopped the spray and have not touched it since. I know that sometimes people prescribe antiobiotics for perioral dermatitis but I am prone to candida infections so did not want to be placed on antiobiotics unless totally necessary. I went to an integrative dermatolgist and she prescribed me ketoconazole cream to use on my face and the rash improved although it does wax/wane. It got particularly bad on one weekend around the same time that I also got a vaginal yeast infection. Could that be connected and is perioral dermatitis a fungal infection? I went back to the dermatolgist last week and explained the situation to her. At the same time, I also had a few ingrown hairs on my bikini line from waxing which were causing some itching. The dermatologist said that I have folliculitis and then upon further examination said that she also saw some in my nose. She prescribed me bactroban and told me to swab that in my nose and also use it on my face instead of the ketoconazole cream. I looked in my nose when I got home and saw that I have some little white bumps inside. I don't know if that's from sinusitis and the discontinuation of the nasonex or is that a staph infection? I'm sorry for all of the questions but I'm very confused about all of this. I had beautiful skin before and never had any major problems. The ketoconazole cream seemed to be helping and I don't want to switch to the bactroban if it's just going to make things worse. What do you think? Any information you might have would be greatly appreciated as I don't want to use anything unnecessary that could further damage my health.
Thank you,
Chrissy