Remember how in grade school we learned that pirates — and legitimate sailors as well — would get a disease called scurvy on long trips in the open seas? This was because they were limited to foods that had to keep for a long time and did not have access to foods with vitamin [...]
You bet it does. Many changes happen to your body when you’re pregnant. Your blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing change. Makes sense that pregnancy affects your skin as well.
So how does pregnancy affect your skin?
Here are some things that can happen:
Hyperpigmentation – You may notice areas of your skin becoming [...]
Being a patient in the hospital is tough when you’re not sick. Try navigating the hospital when you are sick.
Frequently, I’m asked to clarify who’s who in the academic hospital. So say you are admitted as a patient to an academic hospital, and you haven’t picked up the lingo from TV shows like [...]
The skin has been described as a window into internal disease. You can’t see your internal organs with your naked eye but the skin is available for examination.
The skin can reflect disease in virtually every organ system of your body. Kidney disease can be reflected on the skin in many ways. Here are some [...]
For those of us who suffer from dry skin, there’s always that feeling of playing catch-up. How can you stay ahead of hand washing, chores that abuse the skin, dry air, and instead prevent that fragile, dry, cracked skin?
Proper use of moisturizers is a key component of successful dry skin care.
Find a moisturizer [...]
Do you have a rubbery firm bump on your head? It could be a cyst. Cysts are often found on the scalp of the head — they can present as firm, rubbery bumps or nodules. Over time, they can grow in size. They sometimes become red, inflamed or irritated. They can get infected (in which [...]
I recently came back from the annual American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) meeting in San Diego. Usually we think of San Diego as being warm and sunny — well, not while we were there! We uncharacteristically got some downpours, clouds, and 40-50 degree weather. Meanwhile, it was in the 70s and sunny back [...]
You might have seen recent press coverage of a scientific article on how eating fruits and vegetables changes the color of your skin and how the change in color leads to perceptions of health.
Carotene is a component of many fruits and veggies, most often mentioned in the context of the carrot (carotene [...]
These days, you may have noticed that many skin care products and detergents market themselves as fragrance-free. Why is this the case?
Fragrances are among the most common causes of allergies. With the use of fragrance containing lotions, creams, cleansers, deodorants, detergents, etc., many individual have noticed rashes, redness, irritation and itching of the [...]
