I read Folliculitis can be either fungal or bacterial. Could it be both? Yes good derms are hard to find. I now know about as much as my doctors know and perhaps more about my types of eczema. Yet I focus my study on my types. A good derm has to study hundreds of skin diseases and with some being less common than others it must be challenging to sort them out. Doctors have made mistakes about my skin issues. For almost a year my derm was treating my GD as a form I had for over about 15 years, Allergic Contact Dermatitis. A new derm in a different office took one look and identified it as GD. That's when I learned how common it is for those of us with skin disease to collect multiple types as we age. Yet his same derm identified my Perioral Eczema as Rosacea. She gave me anti-biotics and and the gel you mentioned. This treatment did not help. I used dermnetnz. org and figured out it was classic Perioral and steroids fuel this type. I had been using a nasal steroid which probably caused it and gave that up and no more Perioral, yet even after discontinuing the nasal steroid it took a month to get clear. This is an embarrassing eczema because there is no way to hide the red rash ring around your mouth. I told the derm what I believed it was Perioral and didn't think it was Rosacea and her only comment was, "Oh, yeah looks like Perioral, but that I still could have Roseace". Well it's been almost 2 years and no sign of Rosacea.

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