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Stress and its Effect on Nutrition
In modern times, Stress has become our number one health enemy. Stress has become ubiquitous, and its effects often remain hidden, manifesting only in subtle symptoms at first. But, make no mistake; it can lead to enormous health issues down the line.
Why is sleep so important?
Can’t fall asleep.. my mind is too active! Does this sound familiar? How about ‘I woke up and I can’t go back to sleep!’… or tossing and turning all night?.. or ‘scratching my itchy skin is keeping me awake!’
Stress and its relationship to the Immune system
Stress has very much become a part of life with most of us functioning under moderate to very high stress most of the time during our working lives. The impacts of significant stress are far-reaching and affect all aspects of human health.
Rosacea- The Condition and its Triggers
Rosacea is a condition affecting the face where the skin becomes persistently red, often with visible tiny blood vessels and acne-like bumps and pimples. There may be intermittent burning, stinging or mild itching.
Understanding the Triggers in Vitiligo
Vitiligo is the most common of depigmentation disorders. It is an acquired pigmentation disorder of the skin and mucous membranes, in which there is a loss of melanocytes or pigmentation, producing irregular white spots and or white patches.
Understanding the Triggers in Eczema
There are many types of eczema. The condition can occur on any part of the body and results in inflammation of the skin with itching. Sometimes dryness and scaling, weeping, blistering and thickening of the skin may be seen.
How to deal with the post-festive season slump?
This time of year, many people may feel overwhelmed and exhausted following the build up to Christmas and New Year festivities. Facing the prospect of returning to very busy, high demand lives can be unnerving.
Stress Management
Stress is an intrinsic part of living in today’s world. There are times when we all go through acute phases of stress that are relatively short lived, and somewhat manageable as we know that it will pass.
Stress & The Effects on the Skin
It has been established in recent years that the skin is a direct target of psychological stress via a cascade of hormones, neuropeptides, and neurogenic signals (causing nerve hypersensitivity and inflammation).
PSORIASIS AND COMORBIDITIES – CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE (COPD)
Over recent years psoriasis has been classified as a systemic chronic inflammatory disorder and has been linked with several diseases and conditions that are also immune-mediated inflammatory conditions.
PSORIASIS and COMORBIDITIES – CEREBRAL VASCULAR AND PERIPHERAL ARTERY DISEASE
A study found that cerebral (brain) vascular disease and peripheral arterial disease was also significantly more likely to be diagnosed in patients with psoriasis than in controls. 1 Cerebral vascular diseases are conditions that are caused by problems that affect the blood supply to the brain
Itch + Psoriasis
Itch (Pruritus) is an important but underestimated symptom in psoriasis. However, there is limited published research data available on both its prevalence and characteristics.
Psoriasis and Fatigue
Fatigue is a common and often disabling symptom that occurs in patients with chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, cancer, neurological diseases and a number of other conditions in which inflammation and/or cellular stress occurs.
PSORIASIS – Kidney Disease
The patient with psoriasis has an increased risk of developing one or more of a number of other diseases/conditions that share many immunological features with psoriasis.
Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema) and BACTERIAL CUTANEOUS (SKIN) INFECTIONS
Atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as atopic eczema, is a chronic inflammatory disorder that causes significant morbidity and has a wide range of allergic and non-allergic comorbid disorders.
Christmas and the Holiday Season with Skin Conditions
So now the Christmas and New Year holiday season is upon us and for those of you who suffer from a skin condition, this time of the year can be challenging.
Atopic Dermatitis (Eczema) and Psychological Disorders
Atopic Dermatitis (AD) is a multifactorial, immune mediated, chronic and relapsing skin disease, with significant emotional distress, sleep disturbance and Quality of Life (QoL) difficulties.
Nail Psoriasis – Part 2
Pitting is the commonest symptom of nail psoriasis. Pits usually affect the fingernails more commonly than the toenails. They are superficial depressions in the nail plate that indicate abnormalities in the proximal nail matrix (where the nail grows from under the cuticle).
Psoriatic Nails – Part 1
Psoriasis can affect both finger nails and the toe nails (Psoriatic Nails). The percentage of those with psoriasis who have nail involvement is thought to be 50%. For some unknown reason the finger nails are more often involved than toe nails.
PSORIASIS – Severity and Types
Psoriasis is one of the most common immune-mediated diseases world-wide. It is a chronic condition that waxes and wanes. Importantly it is not contagious but it can be an extremely painful, disfiguring and disabling condition for which there is no cure.
PSORIASIS and DIET – Part 1
For many years Dermatologists, General Practitioner’s and many researchers considered that patients who stated that eating certain foods made their psoriasis worse as being utterly mistaken or delusional.
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