Wednesday, July 21, 2010
It is a common scenario to want to self treat an unexplained rash before going to the doctor. Maybe you scratch it and it gets irritated and to be on the safe side you go to your medicine cabinet and grab an over the counter antibiotic cream. You put it on your rash to avoid infection. But yo...
It's amazing what our body is sensitive to, and the skin is no exception. Given general health otherwise, it can be one of the most devastating because it is "out" there for everyone to see. Who would think a treatment for the skin rash was actually making it worse?
I keep telling the same story of becoming allergic to a certain soap after using it for so long, but it just reinforces the idea to suspect everything and do your own detective work, along with the doctor. At least they can test for this, but it would have been a long time before I had suspected the treatment was making things worse.
All those, -mycin, made me look that up just now, wondering why so many words ended that way. Apparently it means a substance derived from a bacterium.
Thank you, I learned a couple things here today. :)