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Dermatology (Expert Forum)
is flaky skin rosacea?
Answered by
Alan Rockoff, MD - dermatology, Child Skin Problems
The Rockoff Dermatology Center
Brookline - MA
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is flaky skin rosacea?
by santiago, Feb 26, 2000 12:00AM
I know english no more...
For almost one year i am diagnosed that i have rosacea.
My dermatologist treat my problem with meticorten 50 mg, and when i permanently use that drug i felt good, but in the Internet information about rosacea say that the treatment is with doxiciclina and that make me doubt.
When appear, my skin looks like a flaky skin in my eyelid and when i scratch my skin because i feel itch, from my skin shed little scales. I note that i have more itch when i have in pressence of a hot environment, but the itch isn`t only over the skin, i feel itch in my eyes too.
With meticorten my skin make better but the itch is present in all moment. This drive me to despair.
Please help me.
For almost one year i am diagnosed that i have rosacea.
My dermatologist treat my problem with meticorten 50 mg, and when i permanently use that drug i felt good, but in the Internet information about rosacea say that the treatment is with doxiciclina and that make me doubt.
When appear, my skin looks like a flaky skin in my eyelid and when i scratch my skin because i feel itch, from my skin shed little scales. I note that i have more itch when i have in pressence of a hot environment, but the itch isn`t only over the skin, i feel itch in my eyes too.
With meticorten my skin make better but the itch is present in all moment. This drive me to despair.
Please help me.
Doctor's Answer
by Alan Rockoff, MD, Feb 28, 2000 12:00AM
, Feb 28, 2000 12:00AM
Santiago:
What you describe sounds much more like eczema than rosacea, and therefore a cream with cortisone in it, like Meticorten, makes sense, not doxycycline.
I'm really not sure, though, why the cream makes your skin better bit still leaves you with so much itch. Maybe you should ask your doctor to look at the skin when it is itchy, and make a suggestion to deal with it. I'm sure there is something that will help.
Meanwhile you can try taking diphenhydramine (Benadryl in the US), 25 milligrams at betime, to fight itch.
Good luck.
Dr. R
What you describe sounds much more like eczema than rosacea, and therefore a cream with cortisone in it, like Meticorten, makes sense, not doxycycline.
I'm really not sure, though, why the cream makes your skin better bit still leaves you with so much itch. Maybe you should ask your doctor to look at the skin when it is itchy, and make a suggestion to deal with it. I'm sure there is something that will help.
Meanwhile you can try taking diphenhydramine (Benadryl in the US), 25 milligrams at betime, to fight itch.
Good luck.
Dr. R
Ive had eczema for 5 years now. Ive tried everything, Ive been to about 5 different dermatologists and nothing seems to work.
A perscription will last about 2 weeks and then the rash will grow immune to it and come back! I have it on my eyelid and have the same symptoms as Santiago. Is there anything you can suggest?