Although occlusive therapy have great potential in the management of some skin conditions like lichen simplex chronicus, psoriasis vulgaris, hand eczema, atopic dermatitis, lupus erythematosus and many other chronic skin lesions, the therapeutic mechanism of this therapy is not completely ...
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The Risk Of Side Effects From Topical Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids are the most potent and effective local anti-inflammatory medications available and have a striking ability to inhibit cell division. They are the therapy of choice in most inflammatory condition like eczema, dermatitis and psoriasis. You should remember that topical ...
Intertrigo Treatment And Prevention
Intertrigo is a nonspecific inflammatory lesion of the skin folds. It is most common in obese peoples and during hot weather. It is most commonly aggravated by moisture, perspiration, heat, friction, and lack of air circulation. Intertrigo is worsened by ...
Self Skin Examination For Early Detection of Melanoma
Melanoma is the fastest growing cancer and its incidence is doubling every 10 years. Currently 1 in 60 individual will develop melanoma as per US data. With the changes in ozone layer, some predict this incidence will increase sharply in ...
Any Doubtful Non Itchy Painless Mass Could Be Skin Cancer
When cells of the skin multiply in a haphazard manner,they form small masses on the skin, and these are known as skin cancer. There are mainly three types of skin cancer. The most common are squamous cell carcinoma and basal ...
Treatment Of Acne In a Spa
Spas primarily offers different types of specialties treatment ranging from massage, facials, exfoliation and medical treatments of skin disorders with a supervision of licensed health care professional. A medical spa provides comprehensive therapeutic and restorative care that promises to restore ...
The Most Efective Combined Therapy For Acne
With many research and study, combined therapy with retinoids, Benzoyl peroxide gels and topical antibiotics are found to be most effective in treating most of the acne infections. With this type of therapy, the retinoids prevents or removes comedones, whereas ...
Acne Treatment With Benzoyl Peroxide
Benzoyl peroxide (BPO) is a commonly used topical treatment for mild acne which was introduced in 1934. It is safe preparation for all adults and children, and it can be used in pregnancy too. Despite the fact that there are ...
Topical Antibiotics Used for Acne Treatment
Acne is common skin disease that affect almost 90% of the people at some time in their life. Acne is caused by abnormal desquamation of follicular epithelium which results in obstruction of the pilosebaceous canal. The obstruction of the pilosebaceous ...
Study Finds No Association Between Streptococcus Pharyngitis And Pityriasis Rosea
A study at Department of Dermatology and STD, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, India suggests that there is no association between streptococcus pharyngitis and pityriasis rosea. Pityriasis rosea is self limited skin condition of uncertain etiology. The ...