Polycystic ovary syndrome and the skin
Often, the skin can be a window to what is occurring inside your body. For women with polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, this this may mean acne, hair loss, excessive facial or body hair growth, dark patches on the skin, or any combination of these issues.
What is PCOS?
Skin and hair issues can be the most readily perceptible features of PCOS, and thus sometimes the reason for seeking medical care. However, features of PCOS also include menstrual irregularities, polycystic ovaries (when the ovaries develop multiple small follicles and do not regularly release eggs), obesity, and insulin resistance (when cells do not respo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kristina Liu, MD, MHS Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Family Planning and Pregnancy Fertility Skin and Hair Care Women's Health Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 64-year-old man with diabetes
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 64-year-old man is evaluated for his quarterly diabetes care follow-up visit. Point-of-care HbA1c level is not at goal for this patient, who has high function, long life expectancy, few comorbidities, good support, health literacy, and access to care. Medical history is significant for hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity. His family history is notable for type 2 diabetes mellitus in his mother and hypertension and chronic kidney disease in his father. Medications are metformin, glipizide, hydrochlorothia...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Self-Directed Health?
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Here’s a proposal for you: If, by following the Wheat Belly lifestyle, a long list of conditions are reduced or reversed at no risk, almost no cost, reversing even chronic and potentially fatal conditions . . . does that mean that the notion of self-directed health might be on the horizon, i.e., putting control over health back in our own hands?
I think it does. No, we will never implant our own defibrillators or take out our own gallbladders. But so many chronic health conditions afflicting modern humans recede that I believe that it is entirely reasonable to start talking a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - February 16, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle arthritis autoimmune diabetes eating disorder gluten grains Inflammation joint Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Insulin for breakfast
I was ambushed in the hallway not ten paces from the door. I had slipped in the ambulance entrance because that’s the most likely way to get into the building and to my office without being seen. Of course, I wasn’t likely to succeed because my office faces the giant glassed-in fish bowl that’s the nurses’ station, but it was still worth a try.As this was going to be my first day seeing patients again, I wanted a slow start. I was, well, nervous. Nervous that I’d forget something important. Nervous that I’d make a mistake. Not confident that I can function in my clinical role, once again, I have not packed lunc...
Source: LifeAfterDx--The Guardian Chronicles - February 13, 2014 Category: Diabetes Authors: Wil Source Type: blogs
The top 5 causes of darkened armpits
Germaine Pie Is Puzzled By Her Pits: What causes darkened armpits and what can we do to get rid of them? They’re so embarrassing!
The Right Brain Raises Her From the Pit of Despair:
It’s not surprising that so many people have this problem – there are at least FIVE different reasons your pits could be darker than they should be.
Cause #1: Shaving.
When you shave you cut the hairs off at, or just below, the surface of the skin. If your hairs are slightly darker than your skin color, they can give the appearance that your skin has a dark stain when it`s really just sub-surface hair.
What To Do About It: Stop shaving a...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - December 16, 2006 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
