Pityriasis Rosea is mild self limited skin condition seen predominantly in adolescents and young adults especially during spring and fall. It usually begins with a large, scaly, pink patch on the chest, abdomen or back then spread. The patches are ...
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The Truth Behind Syringoma Removal
Syringoma are harmless small skin-colored or yellowish, firm rounded dermal papules or cyst which are multiple and smaller then 3 mm in diameter. They usually starts in young age and sometimes other family members may also have been affected, but ...
Treatment Options For Melasma
Melasma or chloasma, also know as mask of pregnancy is a acquired skin condition presenting as brown, gray, or even blue macules with irregular outlines found mostly in sun exposed area of women and men. While the precise cause of ...
Study Says: Evening primrose oil is effective in atopic dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic pruritic disease of unknown origin which commonly starts in early childhood. It is also called eczema, dermatitis, or atopy. It is characterized by pruritus, eczematous lesions, swelling, cracking, crusting, and scaling of the skin. ...
How To Get Rid Of Skin Tags
Skin tags or acrochordons are small soft harmless papilomas found commonly on the neck, axillae, upper trunk and eyelids of middle-aged and elderly people. Obesity, pregnancy, menopause and endocrine disorder such as acromegaly predispose to these lesion. Some lesion may ...
New Drug For Skin Cancer Approaching Commercialization
A drug that is activated by light can be a quick, simple, and cheap treatment for tens of thousands of patients with skin cancer in Sweden alone. Researcher Leif Eriksson’s team at Örebro University in Sweden has now received about ...
Safety of Oral Antibiotics Used in Acne Therapy
Although in most of the mild cases of acne over the counter acne products or prescription topical therapies alone can be very effective, there are often cases for which oral antibiotics are needed to control disease. As for severe kind ...
New Study Suggest Rifampin is the most sensitive antibiotic for acne vulgaris
In a study Researchers at Shiraz University, Department of Biology of School of Sciences, Iran found that rifampin was the most sensitive antibiotic in vitro for acne vulgaris.They suggest a combination of rifampin with other antibiotics may be more efficient ...
Indigo Ointment May Help Treat Patients With Psoriasis
An ointment made from indigo naturalis, a dark blue plant-based powder used in traditional Chinese medicine, appears effective in treating plaque-type psoriasis, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Psoriasis ...
Does eating Chocolate causes acne
The most Controversial topics among the people of all ages. Acne is the skin disease which affects almost 85 to 100% of people at any time during our lives. So there has been many debate about whether eating chocolate could ...