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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Salem, VA
Posts: 2,195
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Magnate
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Salem, VA
Posts: 2,195
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Ladies only, please--fungal infections.
I have large breasts that now hang down on my chest because of my age. Years ago, I began getting fungal infections on the undersides of my breasts and where my breasts touch the skin of my chest.
It starts out as welts that are extremely itchy. If I can't get the welts to disappear, I develop a raised, red rash.
My PCP has told me to keep corn starch powder on the area, which I do. The last time I went in with a fungal infection, he told me to use cold packs, the corn starch, wash that off and use cortisone cream, wash that off and use the cream they sell for athlete's foot, and he gave me a prescription for Ketoconazole 200 mg two tablets a day for seven days. That got rid of the infection in about five days.
A friend of a friend, who also gets this, recommended putting plain yogurt on the site. It stops the itching for about an hour or so.
Does anyone else have this problem? What do you do about it?
I'm going in again next week to see my PCP and ask him for a referral to a dermatologist.
I wonder if MS is a contributing factor.
Thanks for any help anyone can provide me. 
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