Dry skin can creep up on a woman.‚ First she might think it‚ is caused by too much hot water, housecleaning, or some other temporary cause.‚ She might or might not pause to use hand lotion.‚ But as we age, there is a growing tendency toward dry skin.‚ And the damage is serious.‚ Dry skin flakes.‚ It gets irritated.‚ More important¢‚¬¦it wrinkles.‚ And those wrinkles are just like a shirt left too long in a cold dryer.‚ They don want to go away. Read the rest of this entry »
These days more and more people are complaining about sensitive skin, rashes, and reactions to soap, detergents and‚ hundreds of other products.‚ Perhaps it is the ever increasing numbers of chemicals making their way into our make-up, moisturizers, shaving cream, workplaces, and homes.‚ Even the great outdoors seems to teem with emissions, chemical sludge and pollution.‚ So what do we do? Read the rest of this entry »
Psoriasis is so much more than a rash, a skin condition and even more than its famous ¢‚¬Ëheartbreak¢‚¬„¢ moniker.‚ Psoriasis is painful, embarrassing, depressing and image assaulting.‚ Serious and life altering for older people, it can be crushing to teenagers and young adults.‚ Psoriasis can retreat at times and then flare.‚ The medications used to deal with those flares sat times can seem as debilitating as the condition itself.‚ There is an intense itching that can consume sufferers and cause them to do serious damage to their skin.‚ So is there any hope? Read the rest of this entry »
Dry skin, the kind we all experience from time to time, isn’t usually serious, but it can be painful and unsightly, turning normal cells into shriveled ones and creating fine lines and wrinkles. More serious dry skin conditions, such as the inherited group of disorders called ichthyosis, can sometimes be disfiguring enough to cause psychological distress.‚ So if you suffer from dry itching skin and you are tired of feeling like your face could pass for sand paper, read on. Read the rest of this entry »
I can remember my gym teacher in junior high yelling every time she caught one of us running through the locker room barefoot.‚ She would point to a graphic poster on the wall and remind us of all the invisible little critters waiting to attack our feet.‚ Turns out‚ she was‚ right.‚ A new study confirms that foot infections like athlete’s foot and toenail fungus do spread from person to person in locker rooms, swimming pool areas and even between family members. Read the rest of this entry »
Sometimes it seems toenail fungus and skin fungus‚ are just everywhere.‚ Gyms.‚ Locker rooms.‚ Nail salons.‚ Swimming pools.‚ But there ARE ways you can reduce your risk.‚ Not everyone has the same susceptibility.‚ What is yours?‚ What is your history? Read the rest of this entry »
Everyone has a family member who seems to have‚ suffered from toenail fungus for decades.‚ That military vet, elderly aunt or uncle, or that jock cousin who got it in high school and now he’s a grandfather.‚ There are people who have struggled with toenail fungus for twenty years or longer¢‚¬and most of them consistently lose the battle.‚ They won wear sandals, won show their feet and many have developed such an aversion to letting people see their toes it has seriously affected their quality of life.‚ Imagine, no pool parties, no open-toed shoes, no beaches and no fun. Read the rest of this entry »
There are a lot of articles available on toenail and fingernail fungus.‚ Almost as many as there are meds to treat these conditions.‚ But if you don’t take time to understand the problem, learn how one gets it and how to avoid getting it again or passing it on, you will likely suffer from fungus all your life.‚ ‚ A nail fungal infection may begin as a white or yellow spot under the tip of your fingernail or toenail. As the nail fungus spreads deeper into your nail, it may cause your nail to discolor, thicken and develop crumbling edges - an unsightly and potentially painful problem. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t care how kind or politically correct we are, we are still likely to stare or back away when we encounter someone whose hands (or other body parts) are covered with warts.‚ Those things are not attractive.‚ I can remember when I was a child seeing classmates with warts all over hands or knees and believing, because my mother told me, these warts had been caused by touching toads.‚ I¢‚¬„¢d also been warned if I touched these unfortunate sufferers I would soon sport my own crop of large bumpy protrusions. Read the rest of this entry »
It is one thing to have to deal with a wart or other skin condition on yourself but it is much tougher to watch your child suffer from such a condition.‚ ‚ Warts are annoying at best, always embarrassing and when they are on children we feel particularly sympathetic.‚ But don just throw up your hands.‚ There are many things parents can do short of surgery, freezing or burning them off. Read the rest of this entry »
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