Health Issues is a general health based blog concentrating on multiple health topics. » Skin Care http://prescribedrug.com From fighting cancer to fine tuning your overall look. We have it all! Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:28:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 HEALTHY SKIN: BALANCING YOUR DIET http://prescribedrug.com/2011/04/healthy-skin-balancing-your-diet http://prescribedrug.com/2011/04/healthy-skin-balancing-your-diet#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:26:49 +0000 admin http://prescribedrug.com/?p=183 Too many people think that the way to balance their diet is to add here and there some particular vitamin that they think may be missing. This is a very haphazard way of arranging the diet. It is far better to think in terms of food rather than vitamins, and by following a very simple rule one can be quite sure that there will be no deficiency. The rule is: balance the diet in the course of the three meals in the day, not at one meal. For example, let one meal be largely fruit, so that the essential elements in fruit are supplied; let another be mainly raw salad; and let the third be mainly cooked vegetables. In this way we make sure of the important alkaline foods. For the rest we may add chiefly milk or milk products to the fruit meal; starchy foods, such as bread and potatoes, to the salad meal; and meat, fish, cheese, eggs or other protein foods to the cooked vegetable meal. This arrangement of the diet has long been advocated by Nature Cure practitioners, and so far no one has been able to suggest a better one. It embraces all the different kinds of foods, gets them in their best combinations so as to ensure easy digestion, and makes sure, beyond any doubt, that lop-sidedness does not occur.If one desires any further evidence of the relationship between a healthy skin and the digestive processes it may easily be demonstrated by the time-honored practice of fasting. Nothing will release the excess toxins that lie in and around the skin tissues so quickly as a few days’ abstinence from food. By taking the pressure off the digestive tract and enabling the “sea-water” to clear itself of its load the tone of the skin will be greatly improved. A heavy, fluid-laden skin is an indication of poor general health, but more particularly it is the sign of a dyspeptic individual who has taxed his digestion beyond its capacity, and never realized for a moment where the real source of his troubles lay. A brief fast will provide him with the diagnosis and the basis for successful treatment.
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]]> http://prescribedrug.com/2011/04/healthy-skin-balancing-your-diet/feed 0 SKIN CARE: TUBERCULOSIS OF THE SKIN http://prescribedrug.com/2009/05/skin-care-tuberculosis-of-the-skin http://prescribedrug.com/2009/05/skin-care-tuberculosis-of-the-skin#comments Fri, 08 May 2009 14:30:45 +0000 admin http://prescribedrug.com/2009/05/skin-care-tuberculosis-of-the-skin This used to be a very common and disfiguring disease in western countries. It still occurs in some underdeveloped countries and atypical forms still appear in western communities. The declining incidence may be largely attributed to better hygiene, less malnutrition, improving living standards, elimination of infected milk herds, and BCG vaccinations.

The disease is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It affects other animals as well as man, and may occur in most organs of the body, particularly the lungs. The type of skin infection depends on the person’s resistance to the germ. When a person with good immunity is infected, the host resistance may be sufficient to confine the infection to fairly localized nodules. If immunity is less effective in localizing the infection, multiple chronic nodules will appear.

There are various forms of tuberculosis. One of these, warty tuberculosis, may begin as a lump, nodule or pustule, which becomes warty. There are no associated enlarged lymph glands, and spontaneous healing of the disease usually occurs.

Another form, primary inoculation tuberculosis, typically takes the form of a raised red lump or ulcer, with associated enlargement of the nearby lymph glands. This may spontaneously heal or may proceed to Lupus vulgaris, the chronic progressive form of tuberculosis.

Lupus vulgaris is the commonest tuberculosis of the skin, and is the chronic progressive form. It usually begins as a brown mark on the face, which becomes lumpy and translucent. It progresses slowly, with resultant scarring and ulceration, leading to severe mutilation. The name lupus’ (Latin for ‘wolf’) is a reference to the wolf-like ugly appearance of the advanced, and fortunately rare, case.

Other rarer forms of skin tuberculosis also exist. The treatment of all forms is as for tuberculosis elsewhere, together with plastic surgery where necessary. The drugs most frequently used are Isoniazid, Paraminosalicylic acid and Streptomycin, either singly or in combination. In certain cases Rifampidn may be used. Treatment is for two to three months. Plastic surgery may be necessary for the rehabilitation of those with disfiguring scarring.

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