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When should i be using tretinoin and erythromycin topical?

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Dr. Natalie Hodge answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Depends?: This depends on why they were prescribed? For acne? I would take as your prescribing doctor wrote them. If you get lots of sensitivity and redness with the retin a, (tretinoin) back off to a pea sized amount every other day rather than every day. And stay out of the sun. And wear your sunscreen.

Answered 12/26/2014

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