Travelling for the holidays? Your skin may look dull and feel dry and puffy on flights. Here's a guide to keeping your skin moisturised and barrier at its best on your flight, with a face mask on. No inflight sheet mask or champagne selfie needed!...
Atopic dermatitis is the most common type of eczema that affects children and adults. The symptoms of eczema flares are dry; itchy; and red skin patches. Eczema sufferers are prone to skin infection, hypersensitivity and premature skin aging. Avoiding triggers, skincare, diet, medications, phototherapy and injectable hyaluronic acid moisturisers for eczema treatment are reviewed in this blogpost....
5 skin conditions associated with Covid-19 have been identified by dermatologists: Covid toes (pseudo frostbite or pseudo chilblain); vesicular eruption, urticaria or hives, maculopapular rash and livedo reticularis. This review looks at the newest symptoms of the coronavirus infection....
One way to prevent Covid-19 (Coronavirus) spread is with proper hand washing. Frequent hand washing is a cause of dry hands and eczema flares. Learn about washing with soap and water vs sanitisers; how to treat dry hands; and how choose a hand moisturiser in this review on Covid-19 in Singapore....
IV skin whitening drips are immensely popular in Asia. Do skin whitening drips and bleaching creams work? Why are skin lightening treatments controversial? All about the results and safety of IV whitening drips and skin lightening creams in this review....
Turning the blog focus on to something very close to my heart: pregnancy. Some of you might know that I am a new mother to a very young rascal; and like everyone else, had my own share of ebbs and flows during and after pregnancy. Pigmentation, dull skin, hair loss and stretch marks were a few of the problems I faced after I delivered. I'll be sharing more about these problems in future posts but today I'll take you through a subject sensitive to most mothers: stretch marks....
Milia, syringomas, skin tags and warts are some of the most common types of benign skin lesions. Although the treatment for these lesions is very similar, these lesions are very different. Here's how we differentiate them....