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Acne – ‘Old Wives’ Tales about Acne
Basal cell carcinoma
Beautiful and healthy hair
Beware of the sun! Its rays can cause light skin cancers.
Contact dermatitis – Not guilty verdict for underwear
Fruit acid, the fountain of youth for the skin
Hyperhydrosis – excessive perspiration = social isolation!
If make-up gives you spots
Light skinned skin cancer – ‘The end of ugly scars’
Not every scar’s a blemish, but if it is…
Perioral dermatitis
Photodermatology – The skin needs a rest too
Photorejuvenation
Pollen allergies – a cross to bear
Rosacea
Saunas and the skin
Stay fit at the pool – cared for feet are healthy feet
Taboo subject – athlete’s foot
Tattoo removal using a double frequency
Treating lentigenes (benign brown patches) with light
Vascular lesion therapy using vascular lasers
Vitiligo – running the gauntlet at the swimming pool
Warts – Black cats or snail tracks
What happens to the skin in winter?
Wounds – chronic wounds can lead to loneliness

Acne – ‘Old Wives’ Tales about Acne
Children can be cruel. “Spotty Dick” is only one of the less flattering remarks, which young people suffering from severe acne may hear directed at them. This is despite the fact that virtually all the young people will suffer from acne to some extent - just at varying levels. Many adults also cherish stubborn prejudices, which can undermine acne patients. For example, it is often believed that inadequate personal hygiene or unhealthy eating habits are responsible for the condition, and yet no scientific link has been established. (…)

Basal cell carcinoma
Skin cancer is insidious. In Germany alone, 140,000 people are diagnosed with it every year. Usually it’s in the form of a basal cell carcinoma, also called a basiloma. It grows slowly, and is unnoticeable to a layperson – so it’s often only discovered very late in the day. (…)

Beautiful and healthy hair
Looking attractive is very important in our society. Healthy, thick, and shining hair is seen as indicative of beauty and well-being. Hair and its styling have a real influence on whether we feel attractive and fully confident. (…)

Beware of the sun! Its rays can cause light skin cancers.
With summer comes the sun! The holiday season is about to begin. Faraway Mediterranean beaches, but also your local park, or the swimming pool round the corner – all of them offer the chance of games, fun, and relaxation in the open air. But no one should overdo it, because the skin is not up to dealing with a long and unprotected period of exposure to the sun. Dermatologists are now warning us against the so-called “black” or “light skin cancers” that are increasingly prevalent. (…)

Contact dermatitis – Not guilty verdict for underwear
Many people visit a dermatologist because they think they have some sort of ‘contact allergy’ to textiles. But at this time of year, the real reason is often dry eczema. (…)

Fruit acid, the fountain of youth for the skin
The holidays are just over, you feel rested, and go back to work bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. But your skin, especially on your face, needs time to recover somewhat from the stress of the summer sun. You can best help it by undertaking a fruit acid cure. (…)

Hyperhydrosis – excessive perspiration = social isolation!
He moves towards her. He’s just about to kiss her – and then it happens! She starts twitching her nose as the smell of his excessive perspiration floods into her nostrils. Someone who sweats excessively at the slightest movement or feeling of excitement is suffering from what is known as hyperhydrosis. (…)

If make-up gives you spots
Cosmetics make you look good, and protect and care for the skin. However, in odd cases they can cause skin irritations and acne. Here are a few tips on how you can best protect yourself. (…)

Light skinned skin cancer – ‘The end of ugly scars’
After the long, dark winter months, we’re all eager to soak up the sun at the first sign of sunshine. At long last, light! Finally, warmth! – ‘‘Good for both body and soul’’ as they say. Or is it? The skin is not up to extravagant sunbathing, even if the sun doesn’t appear to be that strong. Appearances are deceptive. The lighter the skin, the greater the likelihood is of contracting skin cancer. Equally less well known is light skin cancer, also known as actinic keratosis. (…)

Not every scar’s a blemish, but if it is…
Scars tell stories. “That’s where I fell off the swing when I was a child”, or “That’s where my aunt’s parrot bit me.” As long as scars are unobtrusive, the accidents that caused them can even be the stuff of entertaining anecdotes, to be wheeled out once you’ve finished discussing the weather and work. But if scars show up as uneven areas of skin, if they remind you of a dreadful acne outburst at puberty, or of a serious injury, if they are large, and attract curious looks, then there is certainly no need to emphasise their presence with an amusing story. (…)

Perioral dermatitis
Perioral dermatitis is a chronic skin disease of the face, which mostly affects young women. In industrialised countries, it occurs in 1% of the population. (…)

Photodermatology – The skin needs a rest too
At last! Time to relax: sunbathing and endless days hanging around a swimming pool. Eating out every evening and finally reading that book which you’ve been intending to read for the last year. This is how most people see their holidays. But there may be a rude awakening if holidaymakers do not take adequate precautions which could result in ill-health. But the holiday from hell needn’t ever happen if holidaymakers follow a few important rules. (…)

Photorejuvenation
To make the skin look more youthful, reducing both brown patches and dilated blood vessels, and stimulating collagen production (to learn more on collagen stimulation), with the aid of intense pulsed light, a process derived from laser technology. (…)

Pollen allergies – a cross to bear
Noses run, eyes itch – people who suffer from pollen allergies can tell you all about it. The longed for end of the winter does more than just cheer people up who have such allergies. Their miseries begin in February or March when birch, alder, and hazel are in flower and pollen begins to irritate. And, in many cases, that’s not all. They often begin to suffer from a cross sensitivity. (…)

Rosacea
Rosacea, popularly known as brandy face or rosy drop, is a frequently occurring inflammatory skin disease of the face with a chronic progress. It advances in stages, and usually presents in middle-aged adults. Around 5% to 7% of the population suffer from this non-infectious disease. (…)

Saunas and the skin
It’s uncomfortably cold outdoors, and you’re longing for warmth? Then off with your clothes, and run to the sauna or steam bath. (…)

Stay fit at the pool – cared for feet are healthy feet
“Let’s cool off in the pool”, we say, when the sun’s riding high in the sky. To make sure that going to the swimming pool remains purely pleasurable, here some tips, which can help you, avoid unwelcome surprises. (…)

Taboo subject – athlete’s foot
Many people have just got used to the itching over time. Surreptitious rubbing does at least offer short-term relief. Things get nasty when it goes beyond the characteristic reddening and increased scaling on the feet, when the mycosis spreads, and the itchiness and weeping starts between the fingers, for example. (…)

Tattoo removal using a double frequency
To selectively and specifically destroy the pigment introduced beneath the epidermis during decorative or accidental tattooing. (…)

Treating lentigenes (benign brown patches) with light
The purpose of using light therapy is to selectively and specifically destroy melanin pigment present either in the base of the epidermis or in the dermis, most frequently in both. (…)

Vascular lesion therapy using vascular lasers
To selectively and specifically destroy cutaneous vessels situated in the upper and middle dermis, causing various vascular lesions. (…)

Vitiligo – running the gauntlet at the swimming pool
Vitiligo demands particular protection from the sun. This disease, with its characteristic white patches, affects around 2-3% of the world’s population. The white patches themselves are not life-threatening, but because of the lack of pigmentation, affected areas of skin have no protection at all against the sun. There is a high risk of contracting skin cancer if the skin is not carefully protected with a barrier cream that has a high SPF to prevent sunburn. (…)

Warts – Black cats or snail tracks
Once they’ve read Mark Twain’s “Tom Sawyer”, every child knows how to heal warts. At midnight, under a full moon, bury a dead, black cat, and say out loud “Cat, take the wart, Devil, take the cat”, and the horrible things disappear! If you don’t happen to have a dead cat handy, you can let a snail crawl over the wart at midnight instead. (…)

What happens to the skin in winter?
Penetrating cold, sudden temperature changes, dry heated air – skin in winter has a lot to put up with. Dry, centrally heated air, the permanent changes from cold to warm, and temperatures below 8 degrees, all create problems for the skin. Skin, in its role as the outer covering, protects us, acts as a barrier, and is a sense organ. Reason enough to pay it more attention. What it needs now is protection and well-considered care. (…)

Wounds – chronic wounds can lead to loneliness
They smell, they hurt, and they’re ugly - and they can make you very lonely. Many people cannot cope with the sight or smell of a chronic wound. Patients who see the effect their wounds have on others usually try to conceal them – even from their nearest and dearest. They are often unable to work for long periods of time and the threat of unemployment looms. Visits to the cinema, light summer clothes, or holidays become are out of the question. The sufferer withdraws more and more from normal social life. (…)

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