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Dermatology (Expert Forum)
Scrapings, color on shaft
Answered by
Alan Rockoff, MD - dermatology, Child Skin Problems
The Rockoff Dermatology Center
Brookline - MA
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Scrapings, color on shaft
by trainbuff, Mar 28, 2007 12:00AM
Well Dr. Rokoff next question. If my dermatologist wishes to do some scrapings to get cells off of the glans/shaft area "OUCH" How does he go about doing this without causing much pain and also bleeding since that area is very spongy and probably bleeds a lot??
Second I have been doing a lot of reading that states that candida comes many times from eating a lot of sugar or having a lot of sugar in your diet. I must confess that I am a sugar junkie and I have made a serious decision to stop this right away effective today!! Too much chocolate, fruit juices etc. My hemoglobin 1ac was up quite a bit and this made me think very soberly. Have you seen any patients whose candida skin rash was possibly due to a person eating a lots of sugar?
Lastly, My RASH is on the shaft right next to the glans and goes around the penis bottom and top. When I looked this up on an internet picture the picture they showed looked exactly like a penis whose diagnosis they marked as candida albicans. Have you had any patients like this??
Rich DeGarmo (Trainbuff)
Look forward to your replies!!
Second I have been doing a lot of reading that states that candida comes many times from eating a lot of sugar or having a lot of sugar in your diet. I must confess that I am a sugar junkie and I have made a serious decision to stop this right away effective today!! Too much chocolate, fruit juices etc. My hemoglobin 1ac was up quite a bit and this made me think very soberly. Have you seen any patients whose candida skin rash was possibly due to a person eating a lots of sugar?
Lastly, My RASH is on the shaft right next to the glans and goes around the penis bottom and top. When I looked this up on an internet picture the picture they showed looked exactly like a penis whose diagnosis they marked as candida albicans. Have you had any patients like this??
Rich DeGarmo (Trainbuff)
Look forward to your replies!!
Doctor's Answer
by Alan Rockoff, MD, Mar 28, 2007 12:00AM
, Mar 28, 2007 12:00AM
If the dermatologist needs to do a test, rubbing with a cotton swab would be all that's needed. The candida infections people get on the skin do not come from dietary sugar or diabetes. But frankly, I doubt you have candida. In any case, treating it and seeing a doctor seem like the best approach to me.
Take care.
Dr. Rockoff
Take care.
Dr. Rockoff
