Chronic folliculitis a sjogren symptom?

[happylife]

Share your experience.

[irish]

I have never heard of this being a problem with Sjogrens. My middle son did suffer from this on his thighs and usually during the winter for several years. The pediatrician had me buy a skin cleaner that is not soap based. I ended up using the Equate brand of skin cleanser or cleaner. It comes in a bottle and you spread the semi liquid product on the skin for a minute or so and wipe it off with a clean dry washcloth.

What this does is clean the soil from the hair follicles and this helps prevent the inflammation that occurs.
This really does work. I used it on him in the summer when he had such dry skin and would get so dirty playing outside, Smoothed the skin down and the redness, etc disappeared. It helps prevent dryness also.

I washed his body in plain water much of the time except for the underarms, groin, etc. He evenually out grew this, There is a lotion made also to hydrate the skin I do believe. These products don't contain all  those weird ingrediants that irritate the skin. Good luck. Irish

[Deb 27]

I've had several skin infections in the past few years. I posted but I got very little response.  I recently had folliculitis on the back of my neck. I thought maybe it was the pre diabetes but unsure. But, I also have very sensitive skin. Sometimes I get these red spots that look like insect bites on my legs. I have no idea what they are. On my neck, I used witch hazel and calamine lotion. It seemed to help. I did not want to take the  oral antibiotics my doc wanted me to take.

[irish]

Have you seen a dermatologist with these issues.  It is wise to line up a dermatologist as often we have skin issues that no one can explain and a dermatologist who can biopsy these skin issues and interpret the biopsy results is really necessary as people with autoimmune issues can have some weird stuff.

My first autoimmune disease was biopsied and treated by a dermatopathologist. Two other doctors had no clue and I had a huge 13 cm fluid filled blister on my right upper arm and the arm was swollen up like a log. He knew what it was when he saw it he said and the biopsy confirmed the diaqnosis. It was Bullous Pemphigoid accompanied by bacterial and fungus infections. I had been having episodes of this disease on my arms for about 3 years and had to get a different dermatologist to get diagnosed.

I have had to have several other skin biopsies done when things were confusing. Once it confirmed that the large circular rash that I had was a drug allergy to Rifampin. Good luck Irish

[araminta]

I've had this on my legs for a few weeks now though I think it's just the horrible marks that are left rather than the infection, as they're not painful or itchy.   I imagine it's going to take many more weeks for them to disappear.   When I googled folliculitis it seemed that with autoimmune conditions people would be more susceptible.