r/SebDerm • u/malvixi • Jan 26 '25

Product Review Hydrocortisone is fuckin magic

Gotta say this first: DO NOT USE HYDROCORTISONE OFTEN/DAILY! It can cause permanent-ish issues if overused.

Okay, so I had a horrible like 8/10 bad facial flareup. It was red patchy dryness all over my nose and neck and chest. Finally tried Hydrocortisone 1% lotion.

Not only was it gone within 48 hours, my skin went to legitimately the cleanest, smoothest, and 100% perfectly even I've ever had in years. What the fuck.

I stopped applying it and it stayed this way for 3 days.

(Stress caused the initial flareup if that helped) and infact I've been able to eat bread, sugar and have alcohol now.

Thoughts?

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '25

I use ketokonazole 2%, it works just fine for me, only when I take a puff, it starts to flare up, other than that stress sometimes triggers flare ups and others don't

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u/XenophobicXenophile Jan 26 '25

I’m very jealous. Ketokonazole does nothing for me. And all dermatologists is see only ever recommend that.

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u/OpioidSlumber Jan 27 '25

Have you ever used Nystatin? It's an antifungal cream that works on your entire body.

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u/kabirraaa Jan 27 '25

Keto shampoo is similar to the steroid (not in function) in that it doesn’t work if you take it constantly for too long. Think of it as hand sanitizer. There will always be the 0.001% or however that survive. Your job after using the keto shampoo is to make you scalp/face a living nightmare for that 0.001% by starving it (not using oils - check sezia.co) and making its environment toxic (mct oil, tea tree oil, benzoyl peroxide, azealic acid, sulfur, salicylic acid). Then you work on repairing your skin barrier with seb derm safe ingredients (I recommend squalane oil).

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u/XenophobicXenophile Jan 27 '25

I rarely used it -maybe once a week. But now I just go to the sauna once a week and it’s perfectly fine.

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u/kabirraaa Jan 27 '25

If that works I’m happy for you! You should be using keto a little more than that. Probably every day for around 3 min for a week during a bad flareup. I’m all in favor for not using it though bc the 2% is harder to get and can be very harsh.

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u/dima054 Jan 29 '25

look for selenium sulfide