Seb derm flare, please help!!!
I’ve been recently diagnosed with seb derm in the past 2 months and have been experiencing a horrible flare on my neck over the past 3 weeks. Also to note, I’ve had dandruff on my scalp my whole life but it has only recently showed up on my neck.
When I first got diagnosed, my derm prescribed desonide cream and ketoconazole cream to use twice a day. I used the desonide for 2 weeks, as she told me, and then stopped. I continued to use the ketoconazole cream in the mornings, and then use the retinol (Altreno), I have been using for over a year now for my acne, at night.
Over the last 3 weeks, my seb derm has been flaring like crazy on my neck. The patches are red, flaky, and sometimes itchy. I’ve checked all of my products on the sezia website and have been only using products that won’t feed the yeast any more. I have MCT oil that I’ve been putting on my neck, but it hasn’t been doing much.
I’m completely at a loss for what to do. I plan to contact my derm next week, but I’m afraid she’s just going to prescribe me another steroid to calm it down and then it’ll come back again.
Any recommendations of products to help calm this down or solutions? I feel desperate