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Seborrheic-dermatitis guide

Face and body seborrheic-dermatitis treatment online

Photo-based care for a typical flaky, greasy pattern on the face, beard, ears, eyebrows, or chest after psoriasis, rosacea, ringworm, infection, and widespread eruption are screened out.

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Start a $59 online review for Seborrheic dermatitis.

Seborrheic dermatitis often affects oil-rich areas around the eyebrows, nose, beard, ears, and center of the chest. Clear photos matter because ringworm, psoriasis, rosacea, infection, and allergic dermatitis can look similar and need different treatment.

If treatment is appropriate, your physician can send a non-controlled prescription to your pharmacy and provide portal instructions for the next step.

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Quick facts

  • You must be physically in Virginia and West Virginia at the time of request
  • Starts at $59
  • No insurance needed
  • No app download
  • Physician review around the clock
  • Non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy when appropriate
  • A work or school note can be included when medically appropriate
  • Response windows: 24/7, every day

Common symptoms

  • Flaky or greasy scale around the eyebrows or nose
  • Redness and scale in the beard or mustache area
  • Flaking around or behind the ears
  • A recurrent scaly patch in the center of the chest

May fit online care

  • Adults 18 and older
  • The rash stays in typical seborrheic areas
  • Clear close-up and wider photos are available
  • No fever, systemic illness, eye pain, vision change, or rapid spread
  • No ring border, thick silvery plaques, pustules, crust, or open sores

Look for another care setting

  • Redness or scaling over most of the body
  • Fever, feeling ill, or rapidly spreading warmth/redness
  • Eye pain, vision change, or significant eyelid swelling
  • A ring-shaped border, thick plaques, central-face pustules, crust, pus, or open sores

What to have ready

  • Clear close-up and wider photos of each affected area
  • Where the rash appears and how long this flare has lasted
  • Any prior dandruff, rosacea, psoriasis, or perioral-dermatitis diagnosis
  • Treatments tried, medicines, and allergies

What happens next

Standard

$59

Within 6 hours

Priority

$99

Within 3 hours

Rush

$149

Within 1 hour

Start the request on the website, answer the fit questions, and choose the response window you want. If the concern still fits this service, a physician reviews it and sends a secure update after sign-in. When appropriate, non-controlled prescriptions can be sent to your pharmacy, and a basic work or school note can be included at physician discretion.

What can be prescribed?

Ketoconazole 2% cream or shampoo is the antifungal foundation, used daily or twice daily until clear and then less often for maintenance. A thin layer of hydrocortisone 2.5% or desonide may be added for only one to two weeks when inflammation needs it.

Why are stronger steroids not used on the face?

Longer or stronger facial-steroid use can thin the skin, change skin color, worsen rosacea or perioral dermatitis, and affect the eyes. This lane uses only low-potency treatment for a short course.

What if the photos look more like rosacea, ringworm, or psoriasis?

The seborrheic treatment is not prescribed. A ring-shaped lesion, thick sharply outlined plaques, acne-like central-face pustules, infection signs, or diagnostic uncertainty is routed to the appropriate existing lane or an in-person examination.

What if the problem is only scalp dandruff?

Use the dedicated dandruff lane for a scalp-only flaking pattern; it has shampoo-specific treatment and screening.

Read the dandruff guide

What if I have central-face flushing or pustules?

Those features may fit rosacea rather than seborrheic dermatitis. The rosacea lane uses its own eye-symptom and treatment screens.

Read the rosacea guide

What if the bumps cluster around my mouth or nostrils?

Small red bumps or peeling around the mouth or nostrils, especially after steroid use, may fit perioral dermatitis and should use that dedicated pathway.

Read the perioral-dermatitis guide