From birth has had what looks like rotten nails. As a baby had conjunctivitis as well as thrush. Changed to soy. Started growing lesions the size of quarters or bigger on front left side of head. Took to dermatologist @ UC Davis. She cut it and did a culture. Also, she went another time to a dermatologist @ UC Davis who prescribed an "ozole" do not remember at this which one and her body especially her fingers burst into red cherry like inflammation. She has been seen by infectious disease, dermatologists, immunologist at UC Davis. Immunologist when she was a very young girl he said she did not have a gene to fight yeast. Infectious disease @ UC Davis probably in 2010 let us know that is probably nothing to do with her immune system but a skin problem.
Around the year 1998 - took her to stanford to start the process of her cochler implant. We had to go throught iummunologists which did nothing, then to infectious disease. They took samples of nails, took pictures. Said it might be mucouscutaneous candidiasis. However samples from ear were coming up bacterial vs. fungus. They started her on Sporanox. Since Sporanox was a form to be used as cosmetics everytime we had to order it the dr had to get it passed thru the insurance company. Finally after trying to get a hold of the dr which in the end never called me back we quit.
as of 4/27/11
carina has a soft boil that appeared 1 boil 3 days ago hurts yellow puss coming out of it on vaginal area and long standing boil on vaginal area doesnt hurt.
has lots of small red spots all over back area. Used retina and it caused face to leave red like a sunburn and then face starting peeling real bad. used on back and back broke out. discontined.
she has tried miconazole over the counter in yeast cream form and made her itch.
clotrimazole and betamethasone dipropionate cream usp 1%/0.5% (base) worked wonderful together with . called doc today to order some more.
she is currently taking minocycline cap 100 mg 2x daily. doc ordered to possibly use 1 x daily however break out became worse. cont taking 2 x
weather: weather has been rainy today/cloudy
2-3 days ago: weather (hot) in redding for baseball game.
diet: has been eating oranges, tangerines also had eaten quite a bit of greasy food due to being at ball park.
mon 5/3 has a boil on right side of vaginal area has been there for about 1 yr she said. is flaring right now.
she still went to school. she said it hurts when she sits.
weather: sunny
walked around marine world saturday, fri she had practice. sat all day sunwed 5/12 boil in vaginal area finally popped in morning
weather: rainy monday, tues cloudy w/sun and wed sunny.
she played softball on tuesday. still had boil. woke up this morning pain in vaginal area w/boil-took salt bath and finally popped. changed to
Nov 2011-Carina currently has 2 boils. One above the butt crack area and one inside. The one on the inside is growing inside and probably is the size of a 50 cent coin. I attribute this to stress. She has been under tremendous stress due to school.
Made her take a break from softball, all work outs.
11/10/11 - Dermatology appt: Dr. Larsen: Face and back area are acne, groin and underarm area are called hedranitis due to inflammation. Acutane and Humera were suggested. We decided on Acutane which we will try and treat face and back but can also treat the hedranitis. Needs to have lab work done first and start on birth control pills just for safety they want to make sure she is not pregnanct. precaution on their part.
11/ 16/11 - geneticist: Dr. Billur Moghaddam - MIND Inst-suggested possible hormones. wants to do lab work - hormones and other blood work up.
carina has been taking rimfampin for hederanitis. Dr larsen has concluded carina has hedranitis supurativa. She tried acutane but was horrible do not know if it was due to birth control or acutane took her off.
10/12 carina down with a big boil it popped but is still hurting her pretty bad. She did drink apple cider @ anniv. and ate a few grapes. weather cloudy, rainy.
11/1 - inspoke to dr larsens associate. she go ahead and start taking clindamycin again for 1 week only. if diahrea starts real bad get off of it. When carina was on clindamycin and rimfampin, with the topicals she was doing really well.
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