Below are patients who I have seen that had used corticosteroids for many months to years. Representative pictures of them will appear periodically in future blogs. Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Eyelids alone following irritation from eye makeup(s). One [...]
Chronic worsening eczematous rash patients are frequently tested and reevaluated to search for a cause because they appear to resist treatment with corticosteroids, “the gold standard of treatment.” The patients are usually atopic dermatitis individuals. Systemic evaluations and various allergic testing coupled with a large variety of topical and systemic medications fail to manage the [...]
Listen to your patient, he will tell you the diagnosis. Sir William Osler, MD. (1849-1919) Dr. Osler, the distinguished Canadian clinical physician often considered the father of modern medicine, understood that the healing process begins when the physician listens carefully to the patient. Osler was brought to Johns Hopkins University in the 1890’s to [...]
In my experience almost 100% of patients who appear with burning, itching and pain in the scrotal area are men who have inherited the tendency for atopic dermatitis and then develop irritation or a yeast fungus infection after exercising. They often self prescribe a weak cortisone cream that is obtained without a prescription. Relief occurs [...]
