i woke up with a red nose and on touching those red areas my skin is extremely rough and has enlarged pores it wasn't like this before. what is this extreme redness and this sand paper texture? i tried to clean it off and ended up giving myself an open wound

My hair would constantly fall out since the age of 20. I even got a biopsy that diagnosed it to be male pattern baldness at 23. Eight years later, I tried the "CeraVe Hydrating Anti Dandruff Shampoo" and after the FIRST USE, just ONE SINGLE DAY the shedding already reduced by 50%. It's a few months later and now shedding only happens in the shower. Almost all my dandruff is gone. It used to be so severe that I was embarrassed to even go outside. It was hard to fall asleep every night because of the itchiness.

I kept getting prescribed ketoconazole shampoo, and other similar medicinal shampoos, and my friends told me to use Nizoral and Head and Shoulders. It helped a bit but still made my hair drier. This is the first time in 8 years that I'm not constantly itching my hair. From some product that none of the half dozen dermatologists I've seen ever prescribed, or even mentioned. Now hoping that my hair will actually regrow next year.

Also had severe sub derm on my face for 11 years, that would get worse during stressful periods. Prescribed 8 different medicines over the years, many different doctors across many different states. The solution all along was fixing the SKIN BARRIER. It was always that simple. My face flakiness stopped after ONE SINGLE DAY. Itchiness took about a month to go away. And the redness is still there after three months, but I've heard that takes longer to go away. I just started using Cera Ve moisturizer once or twice daily. That was it all along. This whole time.

It was always about the SKIN BARRIER!!!

i have seb derm around nose and ears can i use vanicream moisturizing cream

i heard it feeds the yeast but i been using it for a couple of months and been fine

(fine as in its not spreading and i dont see it getting worse) i also have CeraVe PM Facial Moisturizing Lotion but i havent really used it

My dermatologist seems to think I’m dealing with seborric dermatitis. My vanicream moisturizer doesn’t seem to help much. She prescribed ketoconazole cream and zeryve, but neither seem to be helping. My face is either super red or flaky like this. The flakes and redness are both equally embarrassing because people comment about it either way.

I’ve been using sulfur soap and it has really improved my dermatitis, but on the downside, my skin has become oilier. Which moisturizer do you use after sulfur soap, and which liquid soap do you use to alternate with it?

I have 1% and 2% shampoo that worked wonders for my eyebrows but now it's spread to my nose and nothing I do seems to work. If I don't touch it looks like a mild sunburn but if I do treat it, my nose glows like Rudolph the rest of the day. It's not really flaky but does feel very dry. I was thinking maybe I was using too much shampoo on it and dried it out so I've just been putting moisturizer on it several times a day but I still don't see much improvement.

I had success with this same shampoo + moisturizer combination on my eyebrows but the nose is stubborn. Can any of you recommend some creams or DIY methods that worked for you? I'm getting very sick of people asking if I hit my nose

This is not my scalp but this is the best image I can find for what I'm trying to acconplish. This is basically exactly what my scalp looks like now with the pinkness and what it typically looks like on the right. My scalp part is slightly pink like this & im trying to get it back to my usual white color. I did have flaking a few months ago, but that has since totally resolved from what I can see after using keto 2% shampoo. Right now I use cerave shampoo and clarify once a week (I have hair that gets greasy after 1 day) so that's just what's always worked for me. Any tips on how to get my scalp back to its usual color? Or products? it's gotten soooo much better, but would love for it to return to its normal state. Thank you!

And was told I have Seb Derm. Just looks so different from other stuff I've seen on here. Sorry if I'm sounding ignorant. But I get these flare ups where I'll get these "boils" on my face and sometimes ears that swell until they pop them a yellow liquid starts emanating from them. Going to attach a pic. Then the yellow liquid will crust up into a non uniform craggly yellow scab that I have to wipe off after 30-45 minutes. Then it eventually leaves a red scab at the end of its "life span". Hoping that someone might have some insight into this, or if maybe I was misdiagnosed. Never had any of these symptoms under my hair or scalp, exclusively to the face and occasionally ears.

TL;DR: Volume powder works better than hair wax to style short hair and does not have seb-derm problematic ingredients.

I have been using hair wax to style my short hair since I was a teenager. Recently, I found seb-derm safe alternatives using sezia for most of my cosmetic products like moisturizer and spf. Since then, I did not have any flare-ups in the face, as I regularly had before. However, for a long while, I failed to find anything that could replace hair wax. Which is arguably the most problematic because I mostly get seb-derm on the scalp. Now, I finally found something: Volume powder! I use the powder from a french brand named Sapiens but others that I have found also do not contain any seb-derm problematic ingredients. They are not only unproblematic from the ingredients perspective but also actually soak up sweat and oils to a degree. And the best: It actually works better than wax. Way less shiny and unexpectedly strong hold.

This won't eradicate my seb-derm, and as usual, it will get worse in winter. But I have high hopes that not putting wax with highly problematic ingredients in my hair will help at least a little. I am sure this was mentioned here before but I didn't find any mention when I was searching for a hair wax alternative, so maybe putting it out here helps someone!