I am happy to announce today that, three years after this website went live, we have a first guest post. Tim, a reader of the website, kindly agreed to share his story with our audience. Tim, the page is yours. Hello. I turned 50 earlier this year which means that I’ve been dealing with seb derm for 26 years, more than half my life. The first year was really tough because I had no idea what I was dealing with and the Internet wasn’t the source for medical information that it is now. My skin was red, raw, cracking, flaking and very oily. It was diagnosed as seb derm right…
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Vitamin D deficiency and seborrheic dermatitis
After discussing the effects of sunlight on SD as well as a “cheat” of bringing the sunlight into our homes during the winter, let us focus today on the related topic of vitamin D deficiency and supplementation. Time and again, vitamin D deficiency is brought up both in the scientific community (paper1, paper2) and anecdotal accounts by those with SD. Let us bring forward some of those accounts: I myself have been diagnosed with Vitamin D deficiency so like others with Seb Derm, I’m “proof” that Vitamin D deficiency and Seb Derm go hand in hand and I was still deficient despite taking supplements for around 2 months. Also, I…
