seborrheic dermatitis articles ↓

This recently published paper investigates the effectiveness of a `novel steroid-free cream containing multiple active ingredients’, called Sebclair to treat facial seborrheic dermatitis.

This product sounds quite interesting for rosacea and rosacea/SD sufferers. Little information about Sebclair is currently available on the internet.

Sebclair (MAS064D) is approved …

With the recent push by Clarisonic to promote their sonic brush as treatment for rosacea, I thought it might be interesting to see some reviews of users of the Clarisonic Skin Care System by rosacea sufferers. Although it is expensive, it does seem to be working quite well and so far no-one is reporting that it has irritated their skin. …

Interesting threads on the Rosacea Support Forum started by Artist. Apparently it is well known but it was a surprise to me that seborrheic dermatitis is not caused by Pityrosporum ovale, but in fact Malassezia Globosa. The second bit of information that was surprising to me was not only that ketoconazole is effective against M. Globosa, but so is Pyrithione Zinc (PTZ). Some great links …

Trawling patent applications is challenging but also interesting. There is a huge mine of information available for us to scavenge information that might lead to future treatments. I thought this patent was interesting because it deals with something that I hadn’t heard of before, but seems like it might have some potential. This patent application makes me wonder if we will see anything else …

Although this poster session doesn’t name Xolegel (poster sessions aren’t supposed to name products directly) as the product that was studied, it looks likely that this is the product as the company involved, Barrier Therapeutics has recently gained FDA approval for Xolegel (also known as sebazole).Anti-inflammatory effects of ketoconazole: Clinical benefits in the treatment of seborrheic dermatitis, Lieve Vandeplassche, Barrier Therapeutics, Princeton, NJ, United StatesSeborrheic …