Eczema Treatment Care

My 1-1/2 year old female maltese started licking her back end after being groomed yesterday. She was spayed at age 8 mos. I don’t know if she was doing it yesterday after we got her back home, but she is non-stop licking it today. The area around her anus is bright pink and swollen. Her rectum is actually dilated – the opening is enlarged. There is no bleeding. There is no discharge. They did shave around that area to make it cleaner for her after eliminating. I noticed that when she isn’t licking herself, she likes to sit on the cool tile kitchen floor, which I’m assuming the cool tile makes it feel better. Could this be a fungal infection she picked up from the groomer? Can I use a monistat type cream on her to help it? I have an appointment with her vet for Tuesday. She is not whining or crying or whimpering. I don’t know if I should put a shield thing on her or not. I don’t want this to spread if its a contact dermatitis or fungal infection as I plan to go out of town next week and place her in a kennel while I’m gone.

I’d had hives for about a month and didn’t know what from, so I made an appointment with my allergist, and he checked my blood. After a few weeks, he told me that I don’t have any allergies, but I have something called Contact Dermatitis. He said that it very rearly last for longer than a year. I’ve so far had them for half-a-year, and they are driving me insane! HELP! What should I do to help it or make it go away? They aren’t out all of the time, only when I scratch or irratate my skin. THEY ITCH!

I’m 14 and have acne on my forehead and some on my cheeks. I’m sick of my pimples; I cry for hours because I’ve done so many treatments to make them go away but they don’t. My frustration is HUGE.
I’ve washed my face with soap, cleaned it with astringent lotion and also used a lotion that has salicylic acid and used a cream that has 10 % benzoyl peroxide (which caused contact dermatitis). The fact that I never forget to use my treatment and I’m very constant with everything I try, but nothing ever works makes me frustrated.
What can I use that guarantees a clean, beautiful face? Please, help. I’m desperate. I need something that works. I hate hate hate having pimples.
Thank you! Any help will be appreciated!

I’m a PA student and wondering if any NPs, PAs, or DRs could help me out. For a case study I’m working on, I’m placing a type II DM pt on 7 days of Prednisone (60/40/40/20/20/10/10) for allergic contact dermatitis. Her Hg1c = 8 as of ~1 mo ago. She is taking Glyburide 2.5 mg po qam x 8 months (which is not the max dose). I want to increase her dose, and not really worry about the possible side effect of hyperglycemia while on the steroid tx. Other people in my group want get them on a glucometer to check their sugars while on the steroids. I think it’s a little excessive to do that. Can anyone shed some light on this situation? And if glucose testing is advised, how often should we have our pt use the glucometer? THANKS!!!

I need to find the ingredients to Sonia Kashuk eyeshadows. I’ve looked online and can’t find anything. Any help?
Here’s the situation:
My eyelids are extremely sensitive to most eye shadows–one day of wearing eye shadow, and I’m fighting a red itchy rash for two weeks.
The dermatologist diagnosed this as contact dermatitis, meaning I’m allergic to one of the ingredients of eyeshadow (Clinique, Physician’s Formula, Almay, and one of the “mineral” styles). He advised me that if I want to identify the exact ingredient, I could have a patch test done (a 5 day allergy test where each individual commonly known allergen is “painted” on my back in little patches, and I’m checked for allergic reactions over the 5 days). I was going to do it, but wanted to wait until winter (you can’t wash your back for the 5 day time period–ugh). Well, I just found out I’m pregnant, so no testing for me.