Is it normal for the all of the skin on your face to fall off?

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One day in winter, as I went outside, my face started to itch all over. Two days later, flakes of skin started to form and even after I tried peeling all of them off, they appeared again the next morning. Moreover, whenever I entered a warmer room, I experienced the same itchy sensation as before. My mom and her dermatologist friend told me that my skin was just dry. However, even after I used moisturizer for one week, the condition didn't stop, or even improved. Is this normal?

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Maybe you should see a dermatologist?

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  • paramore93
    6 years ago

    Yeah cold weather can make your skin really dry and rayb12 is right in that moisturizer can make your skin even drier ..
    You can get special creams to stop your skin peeling but a good exfoliate sometimes helps.
    I stopped using anything on mine and it just went away on its own.

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  • rayb12
    6 years ago

    I've heard moisturizer can make your skin drier. Not sure the best option. Maybe see another dermatologist

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    • Ellenna
      6 years ago

      Where did you "hear" that? I don't understand how something designed to moisturise could cause skin drying?

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      • rayb12
        6 years ago

        The philosophy in this instance and many is that the skin naturally moisturizes itself, hence why most people don't have dry skin. So introduction of this new substance disrupts the body's natural process of moisturizing itself. Similar to how you don't want to clean inside your vagina or over medicate with strong antibiotics.

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        • Ellenna
          6 years ago

          What "philosophy"? Give me some science and I'll at least think about it.

          Your points about how SOME medications affect SOME people may be valid up to a point, but moisturiser isn't a medicine. Since when do "most" people not have dry skin? I don't know what climate you live in but here in Australia many people do, either as a result of the climate or from airconditioning or yes, from medication.

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          • rayb12
            6 years ago

            "Give me some science and I'll at least think about it."

            "may be valid up to a point"

            Who the fuck do you think you are lmao. This is how you talk to people??

            You are probably the type of person who has a negative opinion of the general population and doesn't realize you are the one being so condescending and entitled that of course people are rude back to you.

            And no, if most people had this it would just be called "skin" wtf.

            This convo is quite over by the way.

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            • Ellenna
              6 years ago

              Yes that is how I sometimes talk to people when I'm seeking more information about the basis for their point of view. I do not have a negative view of the general population, quite the contrary and I do not believe I was being condescending, nor am I an "entitled" person: try old, disabled and poor for a start.

              Over and out

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      • rayb12
        6 years ago

        Then you aren't thinking ellenna. Did you know also antiinflammatory medication can increase inflammation. Anti-depressants can worsen depression, many tinnitus treatments can make symptoms worse, so many more examples of this.

        In medicine, a variety of ailments can produce the same symptoms, and different people respond to medicines differently, if you use the wrong medication due to a misdiagnoses or if you simply have an allergic or averse reaction to the meds, worsening of symptoms is a common side effect.

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        • Ellenna
          6 years ago

          Yeah, being old with several medical conditions I do know a fair bit about medication and its contraindications and negative effects.

          However, I don't see how that's relevant to moisturisers? Anyway, not very important really, is it?

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