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Can bananas trigger my seborrheic dermatitis ? i read somewhere that banana can make dandruff worse i'm really scared cause i just got rid of my dandr

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Dr. Rebecca Gliksman answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Seborrheic dermatiti: You can get dandruff ,seborrhea as an food allergy reaction. if it comes back, stop the bananas and see if it goes away, f/u with allergist they can do skin testing

Answered 3/11/2015

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