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The sun’s rays are the main aggressors to skin and one of the primary causes of aging and the development of melanomas.

The need to care for our skin is especially important during the coming months. If a diet is implemented to ensure proper input from all the basic nutrients for the skin may be kept in perfect health, as long as it is not then subject to intense sunbathing without any protection.

Basic Nutrients for the skin

Unsaturated fatty acids such as oleic acid, present in olive oil and avocados, and the fat in seed oils, nuts and oily fish (especially blue) are essential to maintain a well-structured and hydrated skin. Read the rest of this entry »

What steps can be taken at home?

- No reason to shower more than once a day. Do not shower with hot water.

- Avoid using too much soap. Use a mild soap with a neutral pH.

- The skin should never rub hard and dry.

- Apply a moisturizer when your skin is still slightly damp.

- Ventilate the home and reduce heating.

- Do not take too much sun, excessive exposure to sunlight can cause dryness, wrinkles and skin cancer.

- Wear light cotton clothing to reduce irritation. Read the rest of this entry »

What is dry skin?

It is a skin problem (not necessarily a disease), manifesting with thin flaking and itching. If the process continues to progress, there is a more obvious desquamation and erythema (redness).

- The problem is worse in autumn and winter. In the summer bathes often occurs when frequently in heavily chlorinated swimming pools (for the irritant effect of it).

- Those affected often have dry skin on the face, hands, arms and legs

- With age, increases the tendency to dryness. Read the rest of this entry »

The skin of the beard is thick and strong but is subject to continuous aggressors factors which may cause irritation and damage. Here are some practical tips on shaving and care of this area of ​​human skin:

- It’s important to choose the middle of shaving. Some men are more tolerant shaving with electric razor and others who prefer razor. The suitability of either procedure depends on factors such as skin type, frequency of shaving, etc. In any case, if used razor blades must be new and clean and sharp, as this decreases the trauma by scraping, although the risk of cutting the skin may be higher. Read the rest of this entry »

Other diseases of hair without being specific of the beard may affect this region so important. Queloideo acne, for example, is a disease similar to the beard pseudofoliculitis but in which the injuries turn out to be keloids (thick or hypertrophic scars) usually occurs more in areas of limited hair and skin with no hair, like the neck.

The skin of the chin may be affected by other diseases such as follicular mucinosis. In this disease are inflammatory plaques with hair loss by mucinous degeneration (with accumulation of mucinous substance) in the hair follicles. Read the rest of this entry »

Ringworm of the beard

This name is called to infection of the skin area that is produced by certain fungi, mainly dermatophytes type. It produces an inflammatory lesion scaly red-gray thing just crusting and hair leaving the area where seating. This alopecia can become irreversible if left untreated the disease early. Injuries can be superinfected by bacteria and treatment necessary to eradicate the infection is oral antifungal drugs (terbinafine, itraconazole, fluconazole, griseofulvin, etc.).. Treatment duration is usually 1 to 2 months.

Alopecia areata of the beard

It is named for hair loss that occurs in certain areas. It may be a non-inflammatory lesions may be solitary or multiple, and often form the first round and well defined, forming islands of skin without hair or very short hair in the scalp or beard area. Read the rest of this entry »

Pseudofolliculitis is an inflammatory disorder that occurs mainly in men with thick beards and curly on everything. You can also occur in those who shave in the opposite direction of the hairline (against the grain), seeking the maximum rush. It occurs because the hairs are curved skin flush and re-enter the same, so that fester.

This results in subsequent inflammation that increases as the hair grows, which ultimately leads to a secondary folliculitis may require antibiotic or antiseptic treatment in certain cases. Read the rest of this entry »

In folliculitis become infected by bacteria in one or more hair follicles, mainly due to a staph known specifically, although it is possible that this type of fungal infection can occur.

The hair follicle grows, becomes painful and observed typical lesion is a pustule or purulent material head (whitish-yellow) at the base of the birth of a hair, surrounded by an erythematous halo (red). Folliculitis is a common disorder of the beard, mainly due to mechanical trauma involved shaving. Read the rest of this entry »

The skin of the beard may suffer the same diseases that may appear in other locations of our body surface, but has special characteristics that make it virtually certain disorders has specific to it.

In the skin of the chin are the same layers as there are in the skin of the body (epidermis, dermis and hypodermis) and the same skin appendages (hair follicles, sebaceous glands and sweat glands). But both the thickness of each stratum (higher in the skin of the beard) as the density and development of skin appendages (upper well) are different from the rest of the mantle that covers our body skin.

Among the possible conditions or diseases that can affect the skin of the beard we highlight the following: Read the rest of this entry »

The skin of the beard, male skin

In certain areas of our skin surface peculiarities of each sex were significantly and is accentuated in the lower face, the beard, which probably have the largest differences. Two of the aspects that make the difference between male and female skin, as well as capillary density in certain areas, are precisely the skin thickness and porosity. Why adult men’s skin is more porous and thicker than women’s.

The man’s beard is composed of about twenty thousand hairs and emerges at puberty as a male sexual characteristics. It is produced by the action of certain sex hormones called androgens, whose function is to stimulate the male differentiation of certain tissues such as muscle, skin, genitals, vocal cords, etc. Read the rest of this entry »