What Are Skin Eating Parasites?
These infections must be candidates for one of the most distressing and embarrassing conditions that can befall humans.
Skin eating parasites can also be known as ‘flesh eating parasites.’
The worst of these parasites is contracted as a result of a bite by a sand fly, this parasite burrows into the skin where it lays its eggs and then remains to multiply and devastate the surrounding tissue. If untreated it can lead to loss of sight and eventually to an excruciating death. Read more
How to Get Rid of Unsightly Stretch Marks
It is a popular misconception that stretch marks appear on the abdomen only as a result of childbirth.
As many sufferers know only too well, stretch marks are not confined to women; men are just as likely to have them.
The common factor is the stretching and then the shrinking of the skin in the lower body area. Read more
Cold Sores – Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
Few adults and teenagers will have escaped from suffering the embarrassment and discomfort of a cold sore. These unpleasant blisters and scabs that appear on the lips and adjacent skin are unsightly, difficult to cure and quite painful. In many cases the sufferer will experience a loss of confidence until the sore disappears. Read more
Fishy Cure For Psoriasis
Sufferers of psoriasis will do almost anything to find a cure for this unpleasant skin complaint.
One of the treatments being used today at some spas in Turkey is for the patients to immerse themselves or their affected limbs in the water with hundreds of Garra Rufa fish. Read more
Why Have I Got Psoriasis And Can It be Treated?
What exactly causes psoriasis is not known.
Factors that are present and may trigger cases of the disease include medications and drugs, skin lesions and scars, sun burn, alcoholism, bacterial infections, colds and hereditary. Read more
The Early Symptoms Of Psoriasis On The Skin
Psoriasis is a recurring but non-infectious scaly skin condition with no known cause or prevention. It can strike both sexes, most usually between the ages of five to twenty five.
Skin Psoriasis Symptoms
The early symptoms of psoriasis can easily be missed. A red spot with a scaly surface slowly develops on the skin. Read more
What Are The Different Skin Cancer Types?
There are three different types of skin cancer – basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.
Skin cancer can develop when cells grow and multiply without the normal controls that the body exercises. If left untreated cancerous skin cells can spread to the organs and bone tissues. Read more
How To Treat Enlarged Pores
Our bodies are covered with millions of hair follicles. These follicles lie deep in the dermis of the skin and grow up through the dermal layer of our skin onto the surface via tiny openings which are the pores.
About halfway to the surface, the sebaceous oil gland connects to it and empties sebum (skin oil) into the follicle which continues its journey to the opening.
Wherever we have a hair on our body there is a pore.
Pimples And Spots – Top Tips To Treat Them
Pimples and spots seem to turn up at the worst times. However, you don’t want to make them even worse by squeezing them and causing them to become inflamed and even lead to acne.
The teenage years, with the fluctuation of hormones taking place, are an easy target for pimply skin. Adolescent boys are lucky if they escape from the odd spot or two, although almost anyone can succumb to this sometimes disfiguring problem. Read more
How to Deal with Really Dry Skin
A great many people have skin that is light to moderately dry from time to time and don’t have much problem dealing with it.
But skin that is very dry can be extremely uncomfortable and even painful. Dealing with really dry skin can be a problem, too and can affect your daily life, especially if it is unbearably itchy.
