Lithium has been a mainstay of treating bipolar disorder for many years. Although other medications are also often used to treat this commonly diagnosed psychiatric condition, when the cost of medication is a major concern, lithium is almost always the medication of choice. One of the serious potential side effects of lithium treatment, however, is [...]
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One of the newest topics in acne research is the relationship between a psychiatric condition known as alexithymia and acne. Alexithymia is a personality trait that causes difficulty in expressing, understanding, or describing emotions. The Greek words from which the term is derived literally mean “without words for emotions.” The experience of alexithymia is not [...]
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SAPHO syndrome is a condition that affects up to 1% of the population of the United States—and up to 4% of the population in Alaska and Denmark—that most of us have never heard of. Sometimes merged with a condition called hidradenitis suppurativa, SAPHO syndrome is characterized by a combination of synovitis (inflammation of the linings [...]
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Everybody who has acne knows that acne is worse when you are under stress. Stress makes acne worse, and as soon as you look in the mirror or you hear that first snide remark, acne makes stress worse. There is a vicious cycle between stress and acne that keeps the condition flaring up again and [...]
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About 20% of American adults smoke. Vastly larger percentages of adults smoke in other countries where people aren’t exposed to anti-smoking rules and regulations each and every day every time they go out in public. About 20% of American adults have acne—but they aren’t always the same people who smoke. And some countries that have [...]
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January is the biggest month of the year for weight loss diets. Hundreds of millions of holiday party goers around the world pack in extra calories in December and pack around extra pounds in January. Hundreds of millions of people go on calorie-restricted diets to get the extra weight off. But what about weight loss [...]
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If you have rosacea, we don’t have to tell you about the problems rosacea can cause with redness, flushing, and irritation. If you have had both common acne (acne vulgaris) and rosacea, we don’t have to tell you that the sheer unpredictability of rosacea flare-ups can be more frustrating than acne itself. But we will [...]
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Pemphigus vulgaris is a blistering disease. It sometimes produces blisters that look like pimples, but it’s not caused by infection. Instead, phemphigus vulgaris is an autoimmune condition that can result for hyperactivity of the immune system after dealing with a serious infection—including acne. Treatments that work for acne, however, won’t work for pemphigus vulgaris. What [...]
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For the eight years they are teenagers, boys are more likely to have acne than girls. But through the 60 years most of live our adult lives, women are more likely to get acne than men. Dr. Julie Harper, an associate professor of dermatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her colleagues published [...]
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Many proud mommies and daddies are dismayed when their newborns break out in acne. Infant acne usually appears at the very time the baby is at his or her peak of fussiness, gassiness, and nighttime sleep deprivation. Photo taking comes temporarily to a complete halt and parents wonder what could have taken over their child [...]
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