Dr. Erine Kupetsky
Family Medicine
Philadelphia, PA
18 years experience female
About
Bio
I am holistic physical, specializing in the complete care of children, adults and the elderly. I am board certified family physician with a subspecialization in dermatology and also completing a dermatology residency. I enjoy caring for all of your health needs and especially your skin care concerns.
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Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Family Medicine
Dermatology
Licenses
United States: New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania
Doctor Q&A
121 Answers
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A member asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes : A spider angioma is treated best by a laser to close the vessel. Sometimes if its really small docs can tx w sclerotherapy or electrocaudery.
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Antiviral: Antivirals are best taken right when u feel the herpes blister (most often the cause of mouth/lip cold sore). Otherwise otc abreva is pretty good.
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A 27-year-old male asked:
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Trapped nerve?: Some nerves traveling along the side of the hip can become irritated if your putting too much pressure on that side. Suggest shifting your sleep and ... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Not likely: If you had a normal period the chances are that you're not preg. Best to wait a week or 2 and check with urine preg.
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A 49-year-old male asked:
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Get checked : If these headaches are new you need to be examined to make sure nothing else serious is happening.
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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Depends: White stretch marks are most likely from growth and are old. These are likely permanent. Purple stretch marks are likely new and, in the absence of ce... Read More
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A female asked:
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Vaseline or Vaniply: Apply vaseline or vaniply (free and clear brand) as often to affected area as possible. If that doesn't work after 2 weeks, consider getting rx for Pr... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Red pustule : Staph anywhere on the body can present as pustules or abscesses.
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A 51-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Maybe: A lot of fms trigger and tender points are on the rib cage (front and back). The intense massage may have triggered some of them. So you may get pain ... Read More
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A 45-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Many options: You can stop smoking 1) cold turkey, 2) with nicotine patches or gum, 3) with medications , 4) homeopathic remedies like hypnosis.
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
YES!: Rogaine (minoxidil) is category c in pregnancy and may be safe while breastfeeding but recommend advice from OB because logistically, it can cause ma... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Dyshidrotic eczema?: Dyshidroyic eczema is a form of eczema that presents with water-filled vesicles, peeling, dry cracks (sometimes fissures) on sides of fingers.
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Hives: Hives (urticaria) is common and sometimes you may never find the cause. Causes can be food allergies, medications, problems w your liver, infections i... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Allergy: Since its so widespread and there is a temporal (time) relationship between drug and rash onset, this might be allergy to flu shot or one of its compo... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
10 days: If not healed with topical antibiotics (clindamycin 1%) and benzoyl peroxide washes, may need to culture and make sure it's not MRSA or other infectio... Read More
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A 41-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
See doctor : She may need additional treatment. Please have her evaluated.
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A 35-year-old male asked:
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Meds vs therapy?: Smoking, alcohol and stres are among the things that can age you. Smoking breaks down collagen in skin, making u wrinkle and look older, it also narro... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Possible: If you break blisters by scratching, and the fluid, which is rich in virus particles, gets on your fingers, you can spread it to other open areas of y... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Genital or labial : Hsv1 in general is the cause of herpes around the mouth area and sometimes in the oral mucosa. Hsv2 jn general causes herpes blisters in the anal, vag... Read More
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A 39-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Depends: Needs medical eval to distinguish between physiological papules, or infection.
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
No: Only use if medically necessary. Long term use of this tar shampoo can stain bleached hair and cause acne. Do not use if you're allergic.
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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No: Diflucan (fluconazole) - one or 2 doses should do the trick. Inserting douches, or anything else can irritate the mucosa and i don't advise garlic sho... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
120-165 lbs: In order to have a healthy weight w bmi, your brother should weigh between 120-165 lbs. You can calculate his bmi on the cdc website.
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Depends: Mild acne (not that many pustules, papules, no scarring ) can be treated with bpo (benzyol perox) wash otc and rx of topical Clindamycin w/topical ret... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Maybe: Getting started with oral antibiotics for cystic acne is a good idea. But you may need a more long term approach with a tetracycline. Unopposed Proges... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes: Most fade creams have hydroquinone, which if used for long periods of time can lead to bluing of the skin, esp in dark skinned pts. If you have spots ... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Enema: Usually severe constipation that is refractory to colase or other rx stool softeners may benefit from several enemas.
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Wait and recheck : Usually urine preg is positive 1-2 weeks after you've missed your period. May want to recheck after then. Otherwise, your periods may just be late.
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Because its used to tx mite infection, the infection may recur so you may get new bumps and need to restart tx.
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
See a doc : If the rash responded at all to steroid, may be inflammatory condition. If it did not, maybe something else. Need more information.
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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3-4 months : If you were prescribed differin, (adapalene) your scars aren't very bad. Differin (adapalene) is good for very mild acne and it produces less photosen... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes : Otc Nizoral (ketoconazole) helps seborreic derm in scalp better than t/gel. If you're losing hair as a result of the seb derm, Nizoral (ketoconazole) ... Read More
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A 38-year-old male asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Depends : If TB placed in arm is negative, suggest quantiferon gold blood test if you've got night sweats, wt loss, fevers, blood in sputum. Also maybe syx due ... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Delayed: Diabetes affects and prolongs wound healing and increases you chances of infection, so scarring may also be affected depending on the wound, location,... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Not likely: If you really had a normal period, you're not likely to get pregnant.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Maybe: Ringworm (tinea corporis) presents as a red, scaly, ring plaque with central clearing.
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A 26-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Need pic: Viral rashes can occur but should be examined by a dermatologist.
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A 32-year-old female asked:
44 yr old male, skin on face is dry and constantly peeling. dry skin or some type of skin condition?
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
See derm: If the skin is peeling and waxy (greasy) near the nose and eyebrows, it may be seborrheic dermatitis, which is basically facial dandruff, If this is ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Get checked : Upper thigh pain can be caused by a lot of things. Musculoskeletal, nerve entrapment, infection (groin), are some of the possibilities. Best to go to... Read More
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A 42-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
See your doctor: It may be inflammation of the vein, or phlebitis, which is a treatable condition.
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A member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes: Can be folliculitis or kp. Need to eval or send a pic.
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A 25-year-old male asked:
Recurrent folliculitis in axillary and pubic region, pain and pus, kindly.recommend some antibiotic?
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes : For run of the mill folliculitis (superficial pus pimples) topical Clindamycin 1% gel or lotion with benzoyl peroxide washes (otc 5-10%) daily works w... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
MRSA : Mrsa is quite common esp in folks who have eczema. Take the full course of antibiotics and avoid in future by moisturizing/hydrating your skin. You ca... Read More
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Slightly Elevated : With all the pregnancy hormones, it's common to have a slightly elevated basal body temp. In fact, most preg women experience hot flashes bc of this e... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
Lets say you do scar inside the uterous from.having multiple abortions is there any way to.fix that?
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
No: In general multiple scraping inside the uterus from evacuation and curretages (d&es) is permanent and can cause infertility.
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A 29-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
No: You'll be able to see the baby in ultrasound in the uterus and have a pos hcg.
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A 53-year-old female asked:
Dr. Erine Kupetskyanswered
Family Medicine 18 years experience
Yes: Albuterol definitely can cause palpitations and shortness of breath. The reason is that albuterol causes tachycardia. Some people are more sensitive t... Read More
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Hpv?: People can have skin tags that they've had for decades around genitalia and anus. However, if these lesions are recent, it's important to have them te... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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Family Medicine 18 years experience
Selenium sulfide : Getting tv isn't really a function of what you eat- its a yeast that lives on most people's skin, transmitted in the environment, and some people reac... Read More
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A 17-year-old male asked:
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No: You need to treat with oral antibiotics.
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Kupetsky is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Mar 31, 2015
Dr. Kupetsky is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Dr. Kupetsky is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
UMDNJ-SOM
Graduated 2005MD
Residency
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPITAL
Residency
Tri-County Dermatology'LECOM
Awards
Clinical instructor
Top Family Physician, First Place, Pittsburgh, PA - Winter
2013
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