Don't you just hate depending on prescription medicine to control your Seborrheic Dermatitis?I did! When I was first diagnosed with Seborrheic Dermatitis five years ago I was relieved to finally find out what I had.
Then
doctor prescribed me with a cream that I needed to use to control it. I found out size of tube cream came in and how much it cost.
Needless to say, I was no longer relieved.
I could handle treating this condition on a recurring basis. But relying on a doctor's prescription was something else altogether.
If I was going to have condition, I wanted as much freedom that I could get with it.
After concluding how I felt about it I decided to research subject a little further to find out what Seborrheic Dermatitis was. And to see if there was a way to live with condition using over-the-counter medicine.
My first question was...
What is Seborrheic Dermatitis exactly?
And this is what I found out:
Seborrheic Dermatitis, also known as "facial dandruff", is said to be a common inherited skin disorder. Found more often in men than in women. It is a chronic occurrence of inflamed skin believed to be caused by build-up of a yeast-like organism in sebaceous glands. The yeast-like organism is known as Pityrosporum Ovale.
Common symptoms of Seborrheic Dermatitis are redness, itchiness, flaking, greasiness and/or scaliness.
The areas that are most commonly affected by Seborrheic Dermatitis are scalp, eyebrows, eyelids, sides of nose, flesh behind ears, mouth region, mid-chest area.
Other less commonly infected areas are armpits, breasts, naval, buttocks, and groin.
I was only experiencing it on my face.
The areas that were affected on my face were: my eyelids, eyebrow region, sides of my nose, and sides of my mouth.
Once I understood cause of Seborrheic Dermatitis I then dedicated my time to finding an over-the-counter remedy.
It took me hours before I ran across a very valuable website. One that would give me exact information that I needed.
The name of site was American Family Physician:
Treatment of Seborrheic Dermatitis www.aafp.org/afp/20000501/2703.html
Had it not been for this very site I would have never thought to control inflammation on my face by simply washing my face with dandruff shampoo everyday. It was missing ingredient that I was looking for.
I knew I needed one product to take care of inflammation and another product to take care of itchiness and flaking.
