Nose peeling in sheets after a burn for 2 years now

[krispykritter74]

My nose started peeling two years ago this July after a severe sunburn. It hasn't ever stopped, and this year over last 2 months has started getting far worse. I cannot touch my nose without a piece of skin popping up, or where make up like an organic tinted moisturizer, and you will see lines everywhere that the skin is starting to peel again. I have tried numerous organic ointments with essential oils, and salves, and a silver antibacterial gel, all to no avail. It feels like the inside on the left now is thinning and crusting. There is mold in the house I am in, and I am hoping to move, but have only been here since last Dec. I just dab a cotton ball in purified water to clean it, and then put salve on it numerous times per day. It has bled in spots that thicker skin peeled from. No where else on my body is doing this, only my nose. I am on medication for anxiety and pain, as I am 55 years old now with 2 young children, and very high stress levels. I have no family, nor have I had even 10 hours from my children since their birth. one is 10, and one is 11 years old now. My cervical spine is disabled, and am in deep poverty, so it is very hard to get any help at all. I am just trying to find out what could cause this, and if there is anything I can do on my own that may heal it once and for all. I am also smoking organic cigarettes, as the stress is getting so much to bear with house issues, kids, and now my nose getting worse. I do bio-identical hormones also, and have been for a couple of years. Could a medication do this but only to nose? I have had the same medication since 2009 and even decreased it significantly last year, but this has worsend with nose, and also facial hair increase especially after pain doctor put a steroid injection in my neck, and then I had severe reaction, so no more shots. Was also wondering with shots they use for numbing joints in spine, do they stay in the body forever, and what are long term effects on health with this. Nose coincides also with a root canal done on front tooth just before the nose issue started, and the tooth looks very bad now. Thank you.

[krispykritter74]

Thank you so very much for your reply. I haven't seen a dermatologist, but my D.O. doctor. She doesn't think it is a type of carcinoma as it is over the entire nose, and is traveling now up the bridge of my nose, and also one bone on bridge of nose can be seen, where it couldn't before. I do wear sunglasses all the time outside, and have since I was a teenager. So, I think the bone thing could be from glasses over the years. I have seen now in a magnified mirror, many tiny hairs all over my nose, and wonder if this could have anything to do with peeling. I did discover it actually worsens with a salve on it compared to a cream. I am also an avid user of Lifewave glutathione patches, and think this could have been far worse if I had not used the patches. I tried one of the biore nose cleaning strips, and when I took it off, a ton of small hairs were on it along of course with skin. Thank you so much for me to research the dermatitis thing you mentioned. As, I am not sure if this can be treated with an antibiotic of some sort either. I am scarring from this, and had beautiful skin and always took great care of it. Many thanks to you. K.K.

[Bhupinder Kaur, MD]

Hello,
It can be due to seborrheic dermatitis or even actinic keratosis. Actinic keratosis presents as rough, red bumps on the scalp, face, ears etc and may invade deeper in the skin to become a fully-developed squamous cell carcinoma. Hence this lesion can be a squamous cell carcinoma.

Consult a dermatologist and get it examined and biopsied.
It is very difficult to precisely confirm a diagnosis without examination and investigations and the answer is based on the medical information provided. For exact diagnosis, you are requested to consult your doctor. I sincerely hope that helps. Take care and please do keep me posted on how you are doing.