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The use of tissue grafts produced from fetal skin cells quickly allowed to treat severely burned children, according to a study by Swiss doctors published online Thursday by the British medical journal The Lancet.

The eight children were treated to the classic candidate skin autografts of extracting small pieces of healthy skin from one point in the patient’s body to graft in injuries to the skin lining can regenerate. The autograft is applied to deep burns, including third-degree (full thickness of the dermis), which do not allow spontaneous scarring.

The team of Professor Patrick Hohlfeld, University Hospital of Lausanne, is interested in obtaining skin thanks to biotechnologies to improve healing of such burns. Read the rest of this entry »

The cleaning removes dirt, bacteria, fat, dead cells, sweat and other impurities from the skin. Unfortunately, cleaning may also dry and irritate the skin, especially sensitive skin. Use a cleaning product that is soft.

The program for the care of your skin should include the following three steps:

1. Cleaning
Twice a day, morning and night, clean your face with a mild cleanser. Gently massage without rubbing your skin. Rinse. Towel dry applying tap lightly.

2. Hydration
While skin is still wet from the rinse, apply a mild lotion or cream to retain moisture.

3. Protection
Do not forget to apply sunscreen daily. In addition to premature aging, the sun can darken the melasma. Adequate protection against damage from the sun is essential for women with melasma should always avoid exposure to sunlight, sunlamps or UV rays and heat, wind or cold. In case you have to be exposed to these items, use a sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or higher every day. Brimmed hats can express their style and at the same time create shade for your face. Be sure to wear sunglasses to protect the delicate eye tissue and prevention of strabismus.

The skin, porous border that delimits the inside from the outside world has on one hand the true function of a protective shell on the other hand, the main organ of communication of all external stimuli received by more subtle and delicate they are. It is the largest organ in the human body with 2 square meters, 4 kilos in weight and 0.2 mm epidermis that protects us from heat, cold, dust, thousands of bacteria that are lurking waiting for the right to enter and all kinds of attacks to which it is subjected daily. It’s definitely a brain surface.

The mirror of the body

It is not easy to maintain healthy skin that is not in fact easy to see properly maintain health. The health of the skin depends on the state of purity that has the blood and it is kept in this state, it is necessary to keep the various bodies healthy and in full operating capacity. Signs of the skin are clear signs of state of the body in its entirety. From the point of view of natural medicine to the skin is considered as a third lung by this reference to the function performed by removal of metabolic waste substances and the work of skin breathing, both of utmost importance to health. Read the rest of this entry »

Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection of the skin and the most common fungal infections. Recent studies estimate that 25% of the population of developed countries suffer this evil at some point in their lives.

The most common symptoms are: dry skin, brittle and flaky in the affected area. Itching and burning, sores or blisters, thickening and discoloration of the nails.

This type of fungi, called dermatophytes, thrive in warm, moist areas, so the infection increases in summer time. It is a highly contagious infection that is spread by direct contact with items such as shoes, socks, bedding, carpets and other surfaces such as swimming pools, showers, gyms, saunas and locker rooms, among others.

The disease takes its name probably is more common in athletes by continuous and prolonged use of closed shoes (tennis). It is common for swimmers and suffering soldiers, the most frequent in adult males. Read the rest of this entry »

A new report recently issued by Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, warning of the health hazardscause facial paint that could used especially by children and young people in celebrations like Halloween.

After evaluating ten products facial paint types widely available via the Internet at craft shops or Halloween, the researchers found that:

“The ten facial products containing lead paint, and 6 of 10 had known skin allergens such as nickel, cobalt or chromium, at levels above the recommendations of industry surveys,” said Stacy Malkan, cofounder of the campaign coauthor of the report and author of Not Just a Pretty Face, published in 2007, which talks about potentially dangerous ingredients in cosmetics.

Malkan said the new report that “unfortunately, we found lead in all of them” and according to experts agree the exposure to lead can cause behavioral and developmental problems.

The research found that it had problems with the label as some products claiming to be hypoallergenic, but they were not, while a product “announced in the package as hypoallergenic and nontoxic, and had some of the highest levels of nickel, cobalt and lead, “said Malkan. Read the rest of this entry »

Even in the clean and healthy skin may occasionally appear as black dots. All people have had more than one, since they are common. Here are open comedones, dark spots that form when sebum mixes with dead skin cells. They are black because they are very dense. Suffer from oily skin to a greater extent, so that prevention and proper cleaning is essential to prevent its occurrence and to remove existing ones.

Why did they originate?
On the surface of the skin lead to two types of glands: sweat glands, sweat pouring through a tiny hole or pore, and sebaceous associated with a dryer, where the fat comes naturally to the surface of the skin, outlet which is larger, and which is also known as pore. In parts of the forehead, nose and chin sebaceous flow is more abundant, and just filosebáceos dilating ducts. Just to see how to tighten them a bit of fat removed. Which does not flow and obstructs the process of cell renewal. Black spots on the skin Read the rest of this entry »

Photosensitivity reactions are those important clinical and produced abnormal, triggered or aggravated by exposure to light, usually sunlight. Unlike fototoxia, skin overreacts and does not play only an increase of tonality, but appear eczema lesions, blistering, etc …

Fototóxia

It is the increased absorption of sunlight by making contact or drugs or chemicals, or sometimes by alterations in the metabolism of persons or in certain diseases. The injuries that occur are the same as sun exposure produces only more intense and appear less exposure time.

1. Fototoxia induced by drugs.

It is a cutaneous adverse reaction due to systemic or topical exposure of a drug and light. The chemicals may be responsible, in addition to drugs, cosmetics and industrial products. The reaction can occur in any individual, is required and dose-dependent, and essentially it is an exaggerated sunburn. It is more common than photoallergic reactions and may also occur at any age and any skin type. Eczematous reaction is not seen in phototoxic reactions. Reactions by the Sun Read the rest of this entry »

Knowing how long you can spend in the sun, without running the risk of ultraviolet rays damage the skin, it is now possible thanks to a system that calculates the appropriate period of exposure to solar radiation, according to the skin of each person and the place where you are.
With this invention seeks to reduce the incidence of skin cancer. “The software determines the maximum recommended exposure to solar UV radiation, including the use of protective creams for people with different skin types displayed at any time and day of the year,” he told EFE Ruben Piacentini, director of Institute of Physics of Argentina’s Rosario city (IFIR), which developed the project. Read the rest of this entry »

The treatment of atopic eczema involves different steps:

* Exclusion of the causes of allergy,
* Cosmetic treatment,
* Treatment of stress
* Drug therapy orally
* Treatment of itching,
* Anti-inflammatory treatments or outbreaks,
* Treatment of superinfections,
* Pharmacotherapy topic
* Phototherapy,
* New immunomodulators.

Exclusion of Allergy Causes

In this case they are referred to the food exclusion diets to which the patient is sensitized by mechanisms of allergy.
Also environmental control measures to reduce the content of house dust mites. Read the rest of this entry »

Urticaria is the appearance of skin lesions with erythema (redness), formation of hives (elevated pale skin), and itching that can occur locally or widely throughout the body. Causal factor whose hives are the physical stimuli, heat, cold, scratching, pressure, etc … are the group that is called physical urticaria. Constitute the majority of known cause chronic hives.
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