Red Skin Syndrome is also known as Topical Steroid Withdrawl. Here’s what happens - A patient goes to a dermatologist for mild eczema - Dr prescribes mild topic cortisone - Ecxema improves Then...
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Alright friends and foes, let’s talk about a real issue most don’t know about. It’s a medical condition *someone in your life might have.* It’s hardly understood. It’s called Red Skin Syndrome. I went through 5 years of it. Here’s what it looks like: Cont...pic.twitter.com/Vc3VaCTIeM
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Doctors prescribe a 2% cortisone, which is a mild topical steroid. Eczema goes away. Then it comes back worse. The cycle begins - stronger steroid, short term improvement, worse flare, stronger steroids. From cortisone to clobetasol. Side effects: https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-4403-451/clobetasol-topical/clobetasol-lotion-topical/details …
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After topical steroids stop working, the eczema patient is prescribed prednisone. Prednisone is evil. If you’ve never taken it, hard to understand. You’re always hungry, moody, and you get a “moon face.”https://themighty.com/2018/06/prednisone-photos-moon-face/ …
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Once your skin stops working as it should, you start to obsess. Is it dust mites? So you buy the air filters and bed covers. And the flares keep coming, the burn intensifies, and the drugs doctors give you don’t work. Then one night you find out about Dr Marvin Rapaport.
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Dr Marvin Rapaport, a clinical researcher, discovered that some percentage of the population become “addicted” to topic steroids. Hence why a person goes from having eczema to having parts of the skin covered in second degree burns.https://youtu.be/0JNVj6eAHDs
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The only cure for Red Skin Syndrome is to go off of topical steroids cold turkey. It is horrific. Even water stings. This is what happened to my face once I quit all corticosteroids. This was only the beginning. It gets worse.pic.twitter.com/K81lwzIyEj
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Once the patient quits all topical steroids, the body breaks out into second degree burns. Skin peels off, hair falls out, this is what Topical Steroid Withdrawl looks like.pic.twitter.com/ewurPAP3Ak
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As bad as Red Skin Syndrome was for me, women seem to get it worse. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_burning_skin …
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My skin is fine now, thanks! It’s a multi-year process to withdraw from topical corticosteroids.
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Red Skin Syndrome is iatrogenic. The medications doctors prescribe create the illness.https://www.cernovich.com/red-skin-syndrome-surviving-hell/ …
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This looks drastically more serious than a skin condition
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They said he had eczema and slopped steroid creams, injections and pills for 6 years. Skin was perfect b4 dermatologists.
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That sounds incredibly difficult, sorry for your loss.
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You will be hearing about this.
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CBD OIL - topically works marvels
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Here’s 1 of my CBD caps. Looks like fish oil.pic.twitter.com/JyDg25sADq
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To all of you that have something like this...This book might help: Let Food Be Your Medicine, by Don Colbert, MD. He had psoriasis and it took him a while to figure out how to get rid of it, but he did, through food. Good read for healthier you!
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Try the Carnivore Diet. It has the potential to reverse eczema. Your condition could be a result of autoimmunity to some component of your diet.
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When something is called "red skin syndrome" That implies to me the doctors don't know much about it.
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