Guest guest Posted April 15, 2002 Report Share Posted April 15, 2002 > Hi, > > When my cea graduated from slight flushing to red, dry skin > with broken capillaries I also noticed two round circles on face > which looked a little like a ringworm. Can't diagnose from a description, Anne, it needs to be seen by a physician. Could be a lot of things. Fungal skin infections can be diagnosed by taking a scraping and looking at it under the microscope by a family doctor or dermatologist. Hope that helps. Marjorie Marjorie Lazoff, MD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2002 Report Share Posted April 15, 2002 Hi Anne--this is exactly how my rosacea started. In fact, I was so sure it was ringworm, I convinced my GP to test it. The test did come back positive for fungus, but I think that's because I had a bit of seb derm with it. Turns out it was just a cluster of blood vessels that was, for some strange reason, circular. It would come and go over the years, when I flared really badly. > Hi, > > When my cea graduated from slight flushing to red, dry skin with > broken capillaries I also noticed two round circles on face which > looked a little like a ringworm. They seemed to appear overnight. > Different doctors had different diagnosis and I tried fungal cream, > cortisone (only applied twice) and a few other concoctions to no > avail. When I first got them they were itchy but that has stopped. > They are not raised, do not flake and never increase in size but some > days they are redder than usual. They are about the size of a 5 cent > coin. Does anyone have any ideas what they might be and if there's > anyway to get rid of them? > > Anne M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 15, 2002 Report Share Posted April 15, 2002 Hi Anne--this is exactly how my rosacea started. In fact, I was so sure it was ringworm, I convinced my GP to test it. The test did come back positive for fungus, but I think that's because I had a bit of seb derm with it. Turns out it was just a cluster of blood vessels that was, for some strange reason, circular. It would come and go over the years, when I flared really badly. > Hi, > > When my cea graduated from slight flushing to red, dry skin with > broken capillaries I also noticed two round circles on face which > looked a little like a ringworm. They seemed to appear overnight. > Different doctors had different diagnosis and I tried fungal cream, > cortisone (only applied twice) and a few other concoctions to no > avail. When I first got them they were itchy but that has stopped. > They are not raised, do not flake and never increase in size but some > days they are redder than usual. They are about the size of a 5 cent > coin. Does anyone have any ideas what they might be and if there's > anyway to get rid of them? > > Anne M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 > yeast and fungus are different, simply two forms of the same > organism, are > they tested for in the same way? Yes, tested the same way. Marjorie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 > yeast and fungus are different, simply two forms of the same > organism, are > they tested for in the same way? Yes, tested the same way. Marjorie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2002 Report Share Posted April 19, 2002 > yeast and fungus are different, simply two forms of the same > organism, are > they tested for in the same way? Yes, tested the same way. Marjorie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 22, 2002 Report Share Posted April 22, 2002 > This is not correct - Yeast IS a type of fungus. Fungi include Moulds such > as Tinea, Yeasts such as Thrush (Candida) and even Mushrooms etc. At least > for " normal, mainstream " thinking. I'm sure different people have different ideas! Barry, under the category of " more than you ever wanted to know about fungi... " You and Adam are using the mycologist's definition of fungi as if it were identical to the physician's definition of fungi. They are related, but not the same thing. In medicine, for all practical purposes, yeast is synomous with most forms of candida infections, whereas virtually every other type of pathologic fungi is just called fungi -- including not only what you and mycologists call molds but also dimorphic fungi (which grow in humans as yeast but in the lab as molds) like histoplasmosis and blastomycosis, among others. Fungal infections even includes yeast- like cryptococcus which causes a subtle form of meningitis, and the uncategorizable pneumocystis carinii, which causes the most common type of immunocompromised pneumonia in AIDS patients. For physicians, the term mold is used when talking about environmental and allergy disorders, not tinea pedis (athletes' foot). For physicians, tinea is a dermatophyte, a type of a fungal infection that affects the skin. So to physicians, yeast and fungi both refer to two forms of mycotic infections; a candida infection is NOT a type of tinea infection, which is where your reasoning would lead us if we adopted the mycologist's definitions to the medical use of yeast and fungi. Yes, a candida infection is a type of fungal infection, but that's not what I understood Adam to be talking about -- if I recall, he was comparing yeast, which can be a dermatophyte, with a fungal dermatophyte. Marjorie Marjorie Lazoff, MD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 22, 2002 Report Share Posted April 22, 2002 > This is not correct - Yeast IS a type of fungus. Fungi include Moulds such > as Tinea, Yeasts such as Thrush (Candida) and even Mushrooms etc. At least > for " normal, mainstream " thinking. I'm sure different people have different ideas! Barry, under the category of " more than you ever wanted to know about fungi... " You and Adam are using the mycologist's definition of fungi as if it were identical to the physician's definition of fungi. They are related, but not the same thing. In medicine, for all practical purposes, yeast is synomous with most forms of candida infections, whereas virtually every other type of pathologic fungi is just called fungi -- including not only what you and mycologists call molds but also dimorphic fungi (which grow in humans as yeast but in the lab as molds) like histoplasmosis and blastomycosis, among others. Fungal infections even includes yeast- like cryptococcus which causes a subtle form of meningitis, and the uncategorizable pneumocystis carinii, which causes the most common type of immunocompromised pneumonia in AIDS patients. For physicians, the term mold is used when talking about environmental and allergy disorders, not tinea pedis (athletes' foot). For physicians, tinea is a dermatophyte, a type of a fungal infection that affects the skin. So to physicians, yeast and fungi both refer to two forms of mycotic infections; a candida infection is NOT a type of tinea infection, which is where your reasoning would lead us if we adopted the mycologist's definitions to the medical use of yeast and fungi. Yes, a candida infection is a type of fungal infection, but that's not what I understood Adam to be talking about -- if I recall, he was comparing yeast, which can be a dermatophyte, with a fungal dermatophyte. Marjorie Marjorie Lazoff, MD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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