Doxycycline photosensitivity

saint aelphhaba you dont' think there's a possibiliyt that its a question of awareness and perhaps false attribution.

I mean if no one in malawi has a problem and a lot of people in madagascar have a problem so its probalby got nothing to do with doxy at all.

Especially since the problem is in other people who use doxy in other countries. so yeah i now suspect this photosensitivity has nothing to do with doxy after all.

The thing is if people don't cover up they do get badly sunburnt. That's just the sun not the doxy. From years of living and sunbaking i know how easily it is to get brutn and for people who do not come from a tropical climate, they simply are more sensitive and more ignorant about how easy it is to get badly burnt. You simply can't say that extreme sunburn is due to doxy when you have these other issues unless you notice that people not taking doxy are not ever showing up with the same problems. Which i doubt.

the fingernails dropping off sounds like something else altogether. A fungal disease most likely.

Argue all you want, #10, but photosensitivity is an established side effect of doxycycline in a percentage of cases. You can't change that.

The question at hand is, "what percentage?" Nutrax has, as usual, offered a good answer.

As for fingernails falling off, this is the first I've heard of it too. I'll reserve judgment.

Mark

"there's just something strange about Madagascar"

There are many strange things about Madagascar. I wonder what was going on. Perhaps an environmental factor that made people more sensitive to the sun, different behaviour from the people i.e. staying out in the sun longer, or perhaps, in view of the fingernails falling off, another cause entirely.

and agree with Nutrax and mark about sun sensitivity and doxy.

#10-#12, your new word of the day is "photo-onycholysis" (or "photoonycholysis"). I'll leave it to you to find out how it is relevant in this thread.

Thank you that is most interesting and nice images too.

I Just know this is going to be about fingernails falling.

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I'm going to africa as well this summer, and am thinking of going with doxy as Malarone will set me back £200 as opposed to £20 for doxy (I'm going for 9 weeks). Do you reckon that it's most likely fair skinned people who are more likely to get the problem of photosensitivity? I'm someone with light olive-toned skin and it's extremely rare for me to burn despite usually not wearing suncream. Since I don't usually wear suncream, I'm thinking if I go with the doxy, I'll take an SPF 15 and an SPF30 with me and see how that goes?

Do you mean its extrememly rare for you to get sunburned when you are in england? Go with doxy. and just use sunscreen and wear a hat. I'm quite fair but i do tan up quite well too even when wearing sunscreen but being out all day in the sun. ie if you are out in the sun all day you will definitely get a tan if wear sunblock and even applying it frequently. and you will definitely get sunburnt if you do not cover up or apply sunblock regularly regardless of doxy, so covering up is the only way to really protect yourself when in the strong sun.

no it's extremely rare for me to burn ever (i've travelled quite a lot to hot, tropical places and get away with a factor 4 suncream). if i ever do burn (which has probably amounted to maybe 5 times in my life), it's only ever on the shoulders and goes brown a few hours later. i've never been sunburned in england and i don't wear sunblock here so i think i'll just take the SPF 15/30 with me, and see how it goes.

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Edited by: jessica90

even black people can get sunburnt. Even if you don't burn, you will get tanned and suffer skin damage ultimately that's why you should wear sunblock. No one is immune to sun damage. By sun damage i dno't mean just risk skin cancer, i mean wrinkles. It is sun that causes wrinkles apart from usual aging and loss of elasticity due to age.