Acne, UC & probiotics & Candida?

UC & acne is a strange one. To be honest ever since I was diagnosed with UC thats when this horrendus acne started, but then again I can't link it down to either hormonal issue (most likely) or the UC... Im positive it's the hormonal issue. Basically what happens is I get horrendus amounts of puss type spots almost like an awful infection around the mouth, chin area. It's that bad theres literally 1,0000s of them a v painful.

I've tried every acne drug on market more or less but no prevail, the one thing that worked for me is co-amoxclav anti-biotic i've been on it for about a year, not ideal I know but it works and thats the main thing, and when I balance up taking roaccutane (v potent drug) which is horrendus for stomach/liver and taking quite strong anti-biotics i'll stick with the anti-biotics.

Hopefully they get it cleared up for you, but im not sure how bad the acne is you say. One theory is with the coltis flaring up as it is a disease im thinking MAYBE the infection/badness spills out onto the skin? acnes vague as can be and there can be so many possibilities of why it's hapening, so I doubt you'll get to the bottom of it but they should be able to find some drug/cream that can get it under control...

I'd recommend retin A cream or benzoyl peroxide. If you clean the affected area first, say it was your back? have someone clean it down with a good type of clenser I personally recommend something like tea tree. Once washed down DAB dry and then apply retin a/benzoyl perox. Only thing is retin A literally peels your skin off v strong stuff but kills all the bacteria.

But to be honest if the spots aren't going away and keep coming back even if your cleaning is perfect then it's a problem inside your body either hormones or some sort of infections. So a good anti-biotic is the way forward. I can imagine dermatologist will start you on something like oxytetracycline.

I am not sure if you are female but I had terrible acne and the only thing that helped was hormonal treatment with birth control pills. I sometimes wonder if getting my hormones checked would be more useful than a dermatologist for me. I don't have a skin problem, I have a hormone imbalance.

Eil said...

From what I've googled, it looks like an overgrowth of yeast can cause both UC and acne and the good bacteria in the VSL will crowd out the "bad" bacteria.  Could it be that the VSL is "curing" both problems?  They did take a bunch of biopsies when they did my colonoscopy but I don't know if they check for things like yeast, so it may have been undetected.  If my UC has been caused by yeast, does that mean that once I go into full remission I might be able to maintain remission just by taking probiotics? 

 

Hmmm....For me, I believe my UC symptoms were fungus related. After doing a lot of research on my own, and discovering fungus can cause many dseases, (and I had been exposed to fungus by taking antibiotics and birth control pills (promote yeast overgrowth), and had lived in water-damaged and moldy/mildewy houses), I decided to experiment with an antifungal program, including natural antifungal supplements and probiotics. Within 2 weeks, my symptoms were remarkably improved. Kept on a modified diet, eventually all symptoms disappeared, and am still symptom-free and meds-free. I agree with what you are saying about bacteria imbalance perhaps being a cause of your symptoms, but in the middle of that could also be some yeast/fungus issues. I have read of studies where a no-grain, low glycemic diet can help clear up acne. I guess to see if your hypothesis is correct, you could experiment with an antifungal plan and see if you continue to get the results you are looking for. I would be cautious using antibiotics.