Could Accutane be related to seborrheic dermatitis?

I wonder if accutane could be related to seborrheic dermatitis for my son suffers for years now from severe form of acne. He was on minocin for years but have heard that accutane might clean his skin totally and has started with accutane but lately his scalp area and eyebrow area is covered by seborrhea. I think it has something to do with accutane so my question is could accutane be related to seborrheic dermatitis.

Well I don’t know if accutane might cause the development of sebborheic dermatitis but on the second thought it is more than possible that your son have earned the sebprrheic dermatitis due to accutane use for I know that accutane may make the skin so dry than in some cases it is a good base for developing severe forms of dandruff. But also for he has acne he must be having oily skin and the condition is usually worse during summer period. Anyway the best seborrheic dermatitis is frequent hygiene that usually consists of using soap in removing oils from affected area and it is recommended to avoid sun exposure and outdoor activities. And as for the accutane I would never use it for his serious side effects and I think minocin is good enough in treating the acne and a s for the seborrheic dermatitis your son might try with some so called antifungal preparations such as azole agents, sodium sulfacetamide and topical terbinafine though studies shows that accutane also could be of help here but it is strongly recommended that accutane should be used as prescribed and under the frequent medical control.

I also had bad acne when i was a freshman in high school. I took accutane and it got rid of my acne but while i was taking it i started noticing that my nose was always red, dry and oily. My doctor said that I had sebborheic dermatitis and here i am a senior in high school still trying to get rid of it.

I started on accutane in 1997 and it cleared my skin of the acne I was suffering from. Now I'm 28 years old and I have moderate seborrheic dermatitis on my face. It started when I was approximately 19 and has cleared for periods of up to a year and has recently gotten worse than ever. I think accutane may have made my skin more prone to this condition. Accutane changed my skin so severely while I was on it, I'm sure that it couldn't have any positive effect other than clearing the acne. I saw my younger brother toward the end of an accutane treatment 2 or 3 years ago and his lips were chapped so badly that it was cracking an inch above an below his mouth. I had a similar experience on accutane. I don't recommend accutane to anyone, it's too extreme. It's better to work on diet and stay away from greasy restaurants while in teenage years or take the anti-biotic acne treatment. I believe dermatitis is a side effect and dermatitis is an incurable disease that requires constant work to find effective treatments, then once one is found, one's body builds a tolerance over time and another type is needed.

Hope this helps any teenagers/parent thinking of accutane treatments.

Actually roaccutane is supposed to help very much with the seborrhea. After all seborrheic dermatitis is a skin condition where your oil glands produce farm more sebum, and your skin sheds too fast. Roaccutane actually helps normalize both sebum production and keratinization.

Most people with acne may also have seborrhea later in life, they are basically due to the same factors i.e. greasy skin and shedding skin. The only difference is that acne generally begins in your adolescent years while seborrhea doesn't usually start until you are well into your twenties or thirties.

Therefore it may seem as though you got seborrhea years after stopping accutane, but believe me, that is because your sebum production is out of control again after stopping the drug.

Many people think seborrheic dermatitis means your skin is dry since you get flaky scalp, eyebrows, cheeks etc. In reality dry skin and seborrhea are two different conditions due to different causes. As I've mentioned, seborrhea is due to too much oil production.

My recommendation is buying a shampoo containing coal tar (e.g. Neutrogena's T range), selenium sulfide (Selsun or Selsun Blue) or ketoconazole (Nizoral). It should be left in on the scalp, face or any part of the body so affected for 5 minutes, then rinsed off. Doing this daily will help get rid of the seborrhea. Once that's out of the way, continue to use it once or twice a week to prevent it from recurring. However you will still have to live with the oily skin.

There are oral medications that are used "off label" to treat severe seborrhea. One of them is roaccutane. Used in low doses e.g. 10 mg/day, it will regulate sebum production without as many side effects as going on a full dosage ( usually 0.5 mg - 1 mg/kg/day).

Hope that helps.

I was on Accutane back in about 2001. During the process I had the ol' cracked lips too, and the skin was extremely sensitive. Shortly after that treatment, I developed a condition which was later diagnosed as Seborrheic Dermatitis and also experienced abit of hair loss.

I personally wouldn't recommend Accutane to anyone because (a) its an extremely powerful drug and (b) what I've experienced is abit too coincidental for my liking!