Can bad teeth cause skin problems? This is long...but I need help.?!


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Can bad teeth cause skin problems? This is long...but I need help.?

About 5 years ago, the tops of my teeth started hurting at my gums. No decaying at that time. My dentist would always tell me I had perfect teeth. Then this pain and the dentist said the separation was occurring because I was getting older and the gums recede. So I just dealt with the pain for the longest time.

Well, at this time, I started getting this rash at my ankles seeming to be at each hair.
Went to dozens of doctors who had me try different things, to no avail. The rash has spread up my legs to above my knees and now on my forearms to above my elbows - lower extremities. The last skin specialist I went to told me I had some "unknown disease" and gave me a photocopy of scripts that he evidently dishes out when he doesn't know what he's dealing with. I went to my car and cried and never had those scripts filled, for obvious reasons. Anyway, my teeth started getting really bad, decaying at a high rate. My 'new' dentist told me it was caused by my ashma medication [puffer] and from drinking soda. I stopped the soda. The rash has not changed. It of course itches so bad and is painful. I wake up to myself scratching my legs so bad that they bleed. I've tried all kinds of meds, all kinds of doctors. I've tried the anti-itch meds, internal, external, anti-biotics, natural remedies like oatmeal baths, etc.

I've been having my teeth done slowly, due to work schedule, sick Dad and money, I'm not able to get them done as quickly as I want.

I just need to know if anyone has ever come across a bad teeth and skin problems relationship.

I have a friend that almost had brain surgery because every doctor blamed her massive headaches and infection in her blood due to something in her brain. Ended up she had a
major tooth infection that had spread to her body, but had never given her any pain to warrant it to be checked out.

Just need some help, if anyone can.
It's 90 degrees out and I'm wearing long pants and shirts. And....yes, I had a blood workup. Doc said everything showed up fine. No problems showing for anything.

Just trying to find out if the skin problem could be linked to the teeth problem.


Answers:

since you already have asthma, i would suggest you go in for in-depth allergy testing. it sounds to me more like you have severe allergy rashes than some of the other things you have mentioned. if your blood is clear of infection, then i doubt it is from your teeth. i would try the allergy testing- that doctory can tell you pretty quickly if it is NOT allergies. and if not, he should be able to point you in the right direction. best of luck to you--grmmynet




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