What are Fordyce spots? Fordyce spot, otherwise known as “fordyce granule”, is a fairly common, non-infectious condition that affects the skin of the genital area as well as the face. uncommon locations are the buccal mucosa as well as the esophagus. Moreover, fordyce spots are considered to be natural-occuring and does not pose a great risk to the patient’s overall health condition. Epidemiology Fordyce spots have no known gender preference; meaning, it can affect both men and women, with no significant difference in prevalence rates. it has no known age partiality too. It can occur throughout an individual’s life span and there are no known associations or relationship with any [...]

Definition Epidermodysplasia verruciformis, otherwise known as, Lutz-Lewandowsky epidermodysplasia verruciformis or Lewandowsky-Lutz dysplasia is a genetic disorder of the skin that is very rare in nature. It is particularly an autosomal recessive genetic disorder, with 10 to 20% of the cases being so. Patients who inherited the disease in an autosomal recessive pattern are products of marriages that are consanguineous. Other cases, however, are sporadic, autosomal dominant and sex-linked in its fashion of transmission. Moreover, epidermodysplasia verruciformis poses a high risk for progressing to malignant tumor or carcinoma of the skin from being a mere benign viral cutaneous lesion at the onset of the disease. The condition specifically predisposes the patient to [...]

HIV rash is a symptom of Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV that commonly appears at the 2nd or 3rd week of the course of the disease. HIV rash may also be considered as a warning sign that an infection is already going on in the body. It is most often than not located in the central part of the body, anterior and posterior trunk and around the face and the neck up to the limbs and hands. In addition, an estimate of 85% of HIV infected patients will certainly develop HIV rash. However, not all presentations of a skin rash translate to an HIV rash. Due to some similarities of [...]

What is Dyshidrotic Dermatitis? Dyshidrotic dermatitis is a medical skin condition that primarily affects our hands and feet with small blisters. This condition is also referred as pompholyx, dyshidrotic eczema or vesicular eczema. The term dyshidrotic is used in relation to the sweat glands, which signifies the connection to sweat glands affectation while the term pompholyx is taken from the Greek language, meaning bubble. About 5% to 20% of patients who suffer from eczema are suffering from dyshidrotic dermatitis. According to research, the commonly affected populations are those people who reside in a place with a warm climate. In addition, this frequently appears during the summer season. There is no [...]

Jock itch or Tinea Cruris is  basically a form of ringworm and a skin contagion. Primarily it affects the skin of the genitals, inner thighs, scrotum in males and buttocks areas. These areas are warm and moist and the itch results in reddish irritated ring-shaped rashes. Anyone who is overweight prompting a skin to skin rub and perspires a lot like sports persons is susceptible to this infection. It can affect women as well, though in rare case. Ringworm is not to be taken as a form of worm; it is purely an infection of skin referred simply as ringworm (tinea). Body ringworms : Jock itch (tinea cruris) – Infects [...]

The change of the skin that affects its appearance, color, or texture is called a rash. Any part of the skin can be a host but some parts are observed with the regular occurrence of these rashes. These may bring about the change in the skin color or become bumpy, warm, cracked, dry, swell or blistered. That’s why there are a number of treatments which vary with the causes of the rashes. Appearance of the rash, involving the other symptoms, the possible exposure of the patient, to the root of problem, last but not the least the family background of developing the rashes. In some cases the rashes may become [...]

Clean, healthy and soft skin can boost our confidence and make us prominent in our peers. A healthy glowing skin cannot be attained by just expensive skin care products; we can make our skin fresh by adopting the following natural measures. Drink Eight Glasses of Water Everyday Drink at least eight glasses of water everyday along with some lighter exercises make you perspire more and increase the circulation of blood. It makes your skin healthy and glowing. Eat More Fruits and Vegetables Some foods like chocolates, French fries, hamburgers, soft drinks create problems on the skin such as pimples, acne etc. its not recommended to give up these edibles. Try [...]

Human body is a wonderful creation of God. But we humans sometimes get sick when we use artificial supports to enhance our beauty. One of the common illnesses occurring due to artificial beauty support is in our nails. Nails are treated as a dead and worthless body part by many people. Whereas, it has been found through research and studies that nails are amongst the delicate and expressive parts of a human body. Women generally use nail paints and acrylic nails to enhance the beauty of their hands and feet.  Acrylic nails are basically plastic nails used to cover chipped, damaged nails. It is a thin layer of plastic commonly [...]