Eating Retin-A cream?

[Yogi]

I guess the answer to this will be 'don't do it', but I thought I'd ask.

Is it going to be bad for me to take 0.05% tretinoin cream orally? I can't get hold of tablets easily. I wanted to take 2.5-5 mg of tretinoin maybe 3 times a week to stop my seborrhea (so I'd need about 50-100ul per dose), see here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entre ... d_RVDocSum

If I can put up with the taste :tongue: , it'll be a lot less hassle than putting it on my head.

All it says on the ingredients is that it contains cream base.

Cheers

 

[hairwegoagain]

This is a new one. You're correct, the answer is "don't do it."

 

[jakeb]

This is a terrible idea. Even real accutane is not something to mess around with.

 

[Sean68]

i say go for it.

 

[joseph49853]

I personally wouldn't do it. Unless you sit there with a calculator and a lab precise scale, you wouldn't even know how much retinoic acid is being ingested. Too large a dose -- as in hypervitaminosis -- could actually precipitate hairloss, and would be completely unwise.

 

[alfonso2501]

Bad idea, don't do it.