Please help, eczema type rash, rough red peeling skin on face, I'm so depres!


Question: This is awful. I burnt the hell out of my skin using retin-A. But it's only in one spot on my jaw/chin. It's rough, dry, stings, and is flakey. I tried to peel a little of it off, and now there is a mark where the peeled skin was and it is redder than the rest. I can't get my mind off of how GROSS and ugly it looks and feels. Will it scar? I had some left over elidel, so I applied that but I used it up and it didn't seem to do all that much. I applied now a mix of vaseline and cortisone cream. I need to go on with my life. Please tell me how to help this heal. I'll do anything. I feel absolutely the lowest I have felt in a long time. It's been a horrible week, and now this happens on top of it all. Please


Answers: This is awful. I burnt the hell out of my skin using retin-A. But it's only in one spot on my jaw/chin. It's rough, dry, stings, and is flakey. I tried to peel a little of it off, and now there is a mark where the peeled skin was and it is redder than the rest. I can't get my mind off of how GROSS and ugly it looks and feels. Will it scar? I had some left over elidel, so I applied that but I used it up and it didn't seem to do all that much. I applied now a mix of vaseline and cortisone cream. I need to go on with my life. Please tell me how to help this heal. I'll do anything. I feel absolutely the lowest I have felt in a long time. It's been a horrible week, and now this happens on top of it all. Please

It will heal in time -- keeping the wound moist will prevent scarring, but there is no way to accelerate the healing process. You can prevent infection by applying an antibiotic cream to the face during the day, since it is less greasy than the ointment version. Use antibiotic ointment, since it is most moisturizing, at night. Using a hydrocortisone treatment will likely delay healing since it is a steroid, and those suppress immune function (which is how they reduce redness). Elidel will likely not help in this one spot, since it is essentially a chemical "burn".

Keep in mind this is only temporary -- it will subside. If your RetinA is too irritating, you need to step back in the frequency of your applications. To reduce sensitivity in the future, you can also return to the dermatologist and request a topical application called Nicomide-T. It's a topical anti-inflammatory which helps treat acne, and it also helps to reduce the redness and irritation caused by retinoids (like RetinA).

The best thing you can do is to see a dermatologist. Or, you can put an antibiotic ointment on it, like neosporin. Then once it heals up a little, put vitamin E or vitamin A on it every day for a couple months. Otherwise you will have scarring. You poor thing, good luck....p.s. I would also wear a sun block as soon as it heals up some, if the sun hits it, you'll have even more scarring. I really would see a skin specialist.

you can try using coca butter faithfully. I heard that EMU oil is
good for that too. You can check out the website www.emuoil.com . If that doesn't work maybe u need to go to
a dermatogolist for your skin.

you could try calamine lotion , have you heard of it? its contains zinc oxide , and it calms your skin down , its used for insect bites rashes thing like that , but a lot of dermatologists are using it for a whole lot of skin conditions because it works so well in soothing the skin

If you can take say , two or three days off whatever you do , apply a generous amount to the area and just leave it there for the two days



, don't shower or bathe ,, just chill watch dvd' s what ever , relax and forget about it for the two days


you should really stop using and throw out the cortisone cream , that stuff is like a 5 minute quick fix and causes more problems to the skin in the long run.





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