Acitretin for non psoriasis related illness

[Ensto]

Hello everyone

I find there is not much information about Acitretin when it comes to treating disorders other than psoriasis.
I have been suffering from seborrheic dermatitis and folliculitis on the scalp and chest for about 10 years, I am a 25 year old male.

My folliculitis is whats bothering me the most. I have been on Tetralysal before which did not help me and I just got prescribed Acitretin 10mg to take every day. 
I'm sorry if my question is not fit for this forum but does anyone here have any information or experience when it comes to treating these disorders with Acitretin?

[Fred]

I can't help myself, but I'll move this to it's own thread as it may get seen better.

Welcome to Psoriasis Club by the way.

[jiml]

Hello everyone

I find there is not much information about Acitretin when it comes to treating disorders other than psoriasis.
I have been suffering from seborrheic dermatitis and folliculitis on the scalp and chest for about 10 years, I am a 25 year old male.

My folliculitis is whats bothering me the most. I have been on Tetralysal before which did not help me and I just got prescribed Acitretin 10mg to take every day. 
I'm sorry if my question is not fit for this forum but does anyone here have any information or experience when it comes to treating these disorders with Acitretin?

Hi and welcome   to the forum thank you for posting your question and it's quite possible one of our members might be able to advise

Here's what I could find

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Acitretin (trade name Neotigason) is a member of a group of drugs called retinoids, closely related to Vitamin A. It works by slowing down cell reproduction in the skin.
What skin conditions are treated with acitretin?
Acitretin is licensed for, and most commonly used to treat psoriasis. Your dermatologist may also use acitretin to treat other skin conditions, including lichen planus, lupus erythematosus, ichthyosis and Darier’s disease.

Source British association of dermatologists

[Ensto]

Hello everyone. I just got off my acitretin medication which I've been taking for six months now and unfortunately it didn't help at all with my folliculitis or seborrheic dermatitis.
I'm quite glad I'm off it since I experienced very dry lips and the corners of my mouth began cracking at the end of my medication period.
Anyway I just wanted to post an update on the situation and maybe it can be of help to someone else if they are offered this medication for these symptons ( seborrheic dermatitis on scalp,face and chest with folliculiar infections)

[jiml]

Hello everyone. I just got off my acitretin medication which I've been taking for six months now and unfortunately it didn't help at all with my folliculitis or seborrheic dermatitis.
I'm quite glad I'm off it since I experienced very dry lips and the corners of my mouth began cracking at the end of my medication period.
Anyway I just wanted to post an update on the situation and maybe it can be of help to someone else if they are offered this medication for these symptons ( seborrheic dermatitis on scalp,face and chest with folliculiar infections)

Hi Ensto and welcome back , thank you for updating. What a shame the acetretin didn't work . What's the plan for the future will you go on to a biological drug next ?

[Ensto]

Hello everyone. I just got off my acitretin medication which I've been taking for six months now and unfortunately it didn't help at all with my folliculitis or seborrheic dermatitis.
I'm quite glad I'm off it since I experienced very dry lips and the corners of my mouth began cracking at the end of my medication period.
Anyway I just wanted to post an update on the situation and maybe it can be of help to someone else if they are offered this medication for these symptons ( seborrheic dermatitis on scalp,face and chest with folliculiar infections)

Hi Ensto and welcome back , thank you for updating. What a shame the acetretin didn't work . What's the plan for the future will you go on to a biological drug next ?

I've currently been put on a 6 week fluconazole treatment which is an oral anti fungal, I am supposed to take one tablet a week for six weeks. The doctor originally wanted to put me on another antibiotic but I suggested the oral anti fungal treatment. Seborrheic dermatitis is an overgrowth of yeast on the skin (malassezia furfur in my case) and since I only get the pustules and papules where I get my seb derm I think there might be a connection, I'm just gonna have to wait and see.
There have been cultures done on my pustules which shows no signs of bacteria or anything at all really and the doctors still want to prescribe antibiotics. Considering Acitretin is a vitamin A derivative it should reduce sebaceous activity aswell (I believe) but that didn't stop my folliculitis so I don't think the reason for them are oily skin either. I rarely ever get normal acne, maybe one zit on my face every six months.
If the fluconazole treatment doesn't work I'm not sure which route to go next, but I'm going to continute doing research (at this point it feels like I've read every page on the internet lol)
I have no idea what a biological drug is actually so I am definitely going to look that up.

[jiml]

Hello everyone. I just got off my acitretin medication which I've been taking for six months now and unfortunately it didn't help at all with my folliculitis or seborrheic dermatitis.
I'm quite glad I'm off it since I experienced very dry lips and the corners of my mouth began cracking at the end of my medication period.
Anyway I just wanted to post an update on the situation and maybe it can be of help to someone else if they are offered this medication for these symptons ( seborrheic dermatitis on scalp,face and chest with folliculiar infections)

Hi Ensto and welcome back , thank you for updating. What a shame the acetretin didn't work . What's the plan for the future will you go on to a biological drug next ?

I've currently been put on a 6 week fluconazole treatment which is an oral anti fungal, I am supposed to take one tablet a week for six weeks. The doctor originally wanted to put me on another antibiotic but I suggested the oral anti fungal treatment. Seborrheic dermatitis is an overgrowth of yeast on the skin (malassezia furfur in my case) and since I only get the pustules and papules where I get my seb derm I think there might be a connection, I'm just gonna have to wait and see.
There have been cultures done on my pustules which shows no signs of bacteria or anything at all really and the doctors still want to prescribe antibiotics. Considering Acitretin is a vitamin A derivative it should reduce sebaceous activity aswell (I believe) but that didn't stop my folliculitis so I don't think the reason for them are oily skin either. I rarely ever get normal acne, maybe one zit on my face every six months.
If the fluconazole treatment doesn't work I'm not sure which route to go next, but I'm going to continute doing research (at this point it feels like I've read every page on the internet lol)
I have no idea what a biological drug is actually so I am definitely going to look that up.

Hi Ensto it sounds as if you are clutching at straws to find some relief it's certainly outside anything I'm aware of but this link will show you the biological treatments available for psoriasis and Psoriatic arthritis Biological Treatments For Psoriasis

There is a wealth of information about them on the forum here and if you put any one of them in the search facility Search it will throw some thread links up for you

Hope you find something that works for you soon
Jim

[Kat]

As Jim said there are a lot of biologic information to be found here so hopefully that will help.

I hope they find something that works for you soon!