Skin & Hair problems Medical Answers

It's not possible even for doctors to give a definitive diagnosis to a skin rash without actually seeing the patient. It's certainly not possible for non-doctors to give useful medical...

Hidradenitis suppurativa is a painful, progressive, poorly understood skin condition that affects the skin where the apocrine sweat glands are found. The apocrine glands originate where the skin meets subcutaneous fatty...

Many women of all ages have concerns about the appearance of their labia. Sometimes one labia is much larger than the other. One may be longer than the other. Sometimes...

Erythema nodosum is a painful and sometimes persistent skin condition also know as panniculitis. The writers of medical textbooks and the kinds of pamphlets you might get in your doctor's...

The skin of the lower leg region is very susceptible to various inflammatory conditions due to poor vascularization and very fragile innervation. Different metabolic, infectious, and hypersensitivity reactions often affect...

Have you been living with severe eczema? Have none of the treatments you have tried so far offered you much relief? Don't stop looking. There's more to eczema treatment than...

What Are Night Sweats? Night sweats can be defined as excessive, abnormal sweating during the night — typically to the point that the clothes you are wearing, and perhaps even...

Most people are aware that blue or gray hands often indicate poor circulation. This blueish gray tint is known as cyanosis, and peripheral cyanosis where it exclusively affects the extremities.  Many different...

Seborrhoeic dermatitis (SD) is a skin condition that commonly affects the scalp, and it causes a red skin with scaly patches and dandruff that's stubborn. SD can also affect areas of the body where sebum...

The question is how to turn a sunburn into a tan. The answer to that is with time. The melanin cells in the skin become stimulated with sun exposure which results...