Soolantra is the primary treatment, but I’m wondering if Red Light Therapy (RLT) would help.
RLT has increasingly become popular for all kinds of health effects, from skin health, mental health, bone health to even eye health. RLT basically improves cell function to some amount, which can improve organ function. Research is still new, but it has a lot of interest and it’s getting pretty popular.
Sun light has some similar effects to RLT, but also some differences. Sun light has both a positive and a negative impact on the skin (photo aging and sunburn caused by ultra violet). RLT targets some specific wavelengths of light minimizing ultra violet light exposure, so it tries to focus on healthy wavelengths.
The oozing yellow crust disease is a force that makes us stay at home more easily, which often means getting less sun light, which means less bad wavelengths, but also less healthy wavelengths. Which could maybe make our skin function perform worse than with more sun light. So maybe it could trigger a cycle like: less sun light → disease appears → stay at home → even less sun light → disease gets worse → more home staying. This is just a hypothesis, I don’t know if this is the case, but I wonder if it is. If it is the case, then RLT could maybe break the cycle.
I own two large RLT panels, which I use twice a day for health benefits. But I don’t have the oozing yellow crusts anymore like it used to be, so I cannot really test it. Maybe about two months ago I got a really really small lesions that hardly oozed like they used to do, but I consider myself healed for 99% from oozing lesions. But I do sometimes get swollen skin bumps, which I think are somehow related to the oozing lesions. These skin bumps take about 5 days to heal, but they are small and a lot easier to deal with than the oozing lesions. I’m doing RLT since 6 weeks ago and my skin improved from the swollen skin bumps, I hardly have them anymore, but it’s maybe too early to tell. But it does make me wonder what kind of effect it would have on the oozing yellow lesions.
For those who are interested in RLT, if your skin is sensitive to hyperpigmentation (which often is the case for people with light brown skin) you may want to use a RLT panel with configurable wavelengths (like reducing near infrared light and blue light).
A handy site to compare RLT panels is https://products.lighttherapyinsiders.com/