To think this is the wrong treatment for Perioral Dermatitis?

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My (adult) daughter recently had a breakout on her face, red scaly itchy skin around her mouth and nose and gradually creeping up towards her eye on one side.

She had the same thing a couple of years ago, not nearly as bad and went after a couple of weeks.

This time it was so bad she went to the gp. Ist visit they prescribed Fucibet, a steroid cream. She used the cream for months but when it didn't clear up and began to get worse she returned to the gp, only to be told by a different doctor that a steroid cream was completely the wrong treatment! They prescribed Duac cream instead. This has been a disaster, causing her skin to crack and flake off like really bad dandruff. She's stopped using it now but is in despair as to how to treat the condition.

Does anyone have any experience of perioral dermatitis, how do you treat it, has it cleared up? Anyone successfully used Duac, if so how long did it take to settle down? Thank you.

This is what facial seborrheic dermatitis looks like. Very easy to confuse with perioral dermatitis.

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Worth bearing in mind if it doesn’t respond to treatments for perioral dermatitis.

This may be too late now as hopefully you (or your daughter) have found a treatment that worked but if not you could try proskin eczema by mama nature. It's a tad on the expensive side for my liking but it cured my perioral dermatitis in no time at all and the results were pretty amazing. I'm not one to be usually bowled over by anything but I even forgave the high price of it.