How I look after my joints and bones at 63
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Hello, I'm Liz Earl, and a very warm welcome to Age Better. Well, it's Monday, and I've got a brilliant handful of questions for you that I am so looking forward to delving into. As always, I've done the research, so you don't have to. So we can all hopefully live and age better. If you've got a question you'd like me to offer my two cents on, then it's very simple and easy to get in touch with me and the team. All the contact details. Are in the episode description and at the end of the show. Well, coming up today, Lana asks about suggestions on how to calm seborhoic dermatitis. Barbara has a question about HRT and osteoarthritis, and Emma wonders about the potential benefits of grapeseed oil. As well as all of that, I'll be talking about salt and hydration for Janine, and then finally.
Finally, a question about post-contraceptive pill hormone changes that has landed in the inbox, and I'll be sharing my thoughts on that for Helen. Well, let's jump in with a question from Lana. And you write, Hey Liz, thanks for the work you put in for us women. I have a question concerning seborelic dermatitis. I suffer with this condition, particularly on my scalp, but also on my body. The build-up can become quite extensive on my head, and when it occurs on my body, I'm left with scars and dark pigmentation. The doctors have prescribed medicated shampoo. Shampoo for my scalp, which does not agree with me. Can you recommend any more natural or less abrasive solutions to help both my head and body? Thank you, Lana.
Okay, so let's unpack this a bit. Seboic dermatitis is really common and it's a recurring inflammatory condition and it affects the oilier areas of the skin and it can be the scalp. The hairline, the eyebrows, maybe the sides of the nose, behind the ears, sometimes the chest and the wherever the skin is folded. And it's linked to an inflammatory reaction to malesia yeast. I hope I pronounced that correctly. And it's a yeast that normally lives quite harmlessly on the skin along with a load of other yeasts. And then together with sebum production and our individual skin sensitivity. It just kind of coexists and it's part of our skin's natural microbiome, which of course we all have, not just in the gut, but there's a very important microbiome of the skin.
So it's not caused by having poor hygiene, it's not contagious, and it's just really uncomfortable and unsightly because you get this flaky, greasy scale, you get this kind of dandruff-like shedding and itchiness and soreness. And then in darker skin, you know, the redness might be less visible but But the inflammation can leave, you know, quite dark post-inflammatory pigmentation, which is not great. Scarring, though, is unusual. And and I think because you're describing here extensive build-up and scarring, I would really recommend a dermatology review. Just to confirm that this is in fact seborhoic dermatitis. Because it could be something else. It could be psoriasis or a fungal infection. It could be eczema or a scarring scalp condition.
So I'll give you some ideas in a moment on how to get a referral for that. But let's talk about how you might manage it for now. So the aim is going to be to reduce that yeast and to then loosen the scale really gently and calming inflammation. So because this kind of thing tends to reoccur, you just need to have a simple maintenance. Maintenance routine, and that's better to do all the time rather than waiting for it to have a severe flare up. So just washing really gently, lukewarm water, don't have really hot water. If you use an anti yeast shampoo, you can leave it on for about five minutes before rinsing, unless the instructions say otherwise. And then once it's controlled, you can use that maybe once a week or once a fortnight just for maintenance.
And then you could just alternate that with a really mild, fragrance-free shampoo that's going to be less irritating. And you can ask a pharmacist, for example, about a scale softening treatment, you know, rather than scratching or pulling off any thick buildup, which is not going to do any good.
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