Skin Health Nepal

06/11/2024

Winter Skin Care - prevent from chillblains

Chillblains are red rashes on the fingers and/or toes, which come in winter, due to repeated exposure to cold, air and/or water. With time, the fingers start to swell, rashes increase and blisters form, which breaks, forming painful and itchy sores.This makes use of hands for simple daily activities...

06/11/2024

Take care of dry skin in winter.

In winter our skin becomes dry, as it loses moisture, due to decrease in the environmental humidity. How dry the skin becomes varies from person to person. Dry skin is scaly and itchy, which gives an unpleasant look and is uncomfortable. The problem is more pronounced in elderly persons. In some, co...

18/10/2022

In winter our skin becomes dry, as it loses moisture, due to decrease in the environmental humidity. How dry the skin becomes varies from person to person. Dry skin is scaly and itchy, which gives an unpleasant look and is uncomfortable. The problem is more pronounced in elderly persons. In some, co...

29/07/2022

When there is a skin lesion, which is not itchy/painful, present for a long time, more than an year, among other skin diseases, it is also important to exclude skin cancer. There are mainly 3 types. Basal cell carcinoma which present as a skin coloured/pigmented nodule, squamous cell carcinoma is us...

03/07/2022

Herpes zoster or Janai Khatira is a viral disease. The virus which cause chicken pox in childhood , varicella zoster virus, also causes herpes zoster in the later age. It starts with pain and tingling sensation followed by appearance of vescicles, which come in grape like clusters and segmental dist...

24/06/2022

Cleaning the skin consists in the removal of dirt, oil, dead cells and cosmetics. This keeps the skin healthy and gives a desirable look. Natural soap bars are most commonly used. Soaps are sodium, potassium or ammonium salts of fatty acids. Soaps are excellent in foaming and cleansing. But, they ca...

16/06/2022

Adolescence is a transitional phase when there is emotional and psycho-social development, along with secondary sexual changes. The teenager becomes conscious of one’s image and it’s role in social relations and the society. Acne can be a reason of dissatisfaction of proper image, which in turn ...

09/06/2022

In summer, more commonly in children, there can be small, very itchy rashes, commonly with a central point or punctum. This may be due to an insect bite or due to contact with insects. Most of the time you do not see the insect. The most common insects responsible are the fleas (upiyan), and less co...

23/05/2022

Spring is a transition season from winter to summer. The weather becomes warmer and the sun stronger. There is also small variation in the composition of ultraviolet rays in sunlight. We start spending more time outside, and tend to cover our body less. Polymorphic light eruption is the most common....

19/05/2022

Summer skin problems are mainly due to hot weather, high humidity and excessive sweating. Commonly the skin folds – arm pits, inframammary folds, groins, interdigital areas and toe clefts are affected. These sites trap moisture and heat, which favours proliferation of fungi and/or cause skin irrit...

16/05/2022

Summer has already begun, it is hot and humid; we sweat a lot. We need to wash regularly to remove sweat and keep our body cool. If we do not do this, the heat and sweat gets trapped in our body, specially in the folds such as groins and armpits. This moist and warm environment is ideal for superfic...

15/02/2022

Most of the times moles do not alter the look. Some, even enhance the look, so called beauty moles. There are those, youngsters, who do not like them, specially on the face, even though small and few. Then there are big ones, covering large part of the face or the body. They give very undesirable lo...