Dr. Nicole Cain posts a personal YouTube update (part three) about perioral and periorbital dermatitis. She recounts a brief dermatologist visit where doxycycline was recommended, explains the diagnosis (inflammation around mouth/eyes), refused antibiotics to avoid gut microbiome disruption, and reports her skin cleared; she teases a follow-up video describing three major changes she made to resolve it.
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This video is part three about my face and so I can do this video with integrity. There is no filter. Recently I posted a video about getting perioral and periorbital dermatitis and how I went to the dermatologist who took 12 seconds to look at my face, said that I had these diagnoses and that even though it wasn't infectious, that I should take doxycycline, which is a heavy hitting antibiotic. Perioral and periorbital essentially mean around the mouth and around the eye. Dermatitis means inflammation of the skin. Have you been diagnosed with that? It's an especially annoying diagnosis because it doesn't tell you anything about what's causing it. It's just observing what's happening. In essence, I told the doctor that I wasn't going to annihilate my gut microbiome if I didn't have a severe infection. And she was really upset with that and turned to her colleague and said that I refused the treatment. So I took my face into my own hands and as you see, my perioral and periorbital dermatitis is gone. And I have some theories about why. In my next video, I'm going to talk with you about the three major changes I made to completely clear up my perioral and periorbital dermatitis.