This content is machine translated Sunscreen The spectrum of UV-triggered skin changes is broad The topic of sun protection is a “perennial issue” that is once again highly relevant, especially now in spring, when the days are getting longer and the hours of sunlight…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Neurological aspects of HIV and syphilis. How do infectious diseases manifest themselves on the nervous system? More than half of all HIV patients suffer from sensory neuropathy, which is one of the most common HIV-associated diseases. There is no causal therapy for HIV-associated neuropathies; therefore, symptomatic…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Infantile hemangiomas Development, course, complications and diagnostics Infantile hemangioma has a characteristic course with a growth, arrest, and regression phase. Regression potential exists until the onset of puberty. 70% of hemangiomas completely regress without therapy by the…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Light and climate therapy of atopic dermatitis Benefits of treatment in the high mountains For the light therapy of the atopical eczema relatively secured data can be fallen back. Moreover, numerous studies prove the favorable effect mechanisms of a stationary high mountain climatic skin…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Advanced training course in aesthetic dermatology Who is eligible for peeling and how to avoid complications? Peeling indications are incipient photoaging resp. superficial melasma (superficial peel); more prominent wrinkles, lentigines solares, actinic keratoses, deeper melasma, incipient elastosis cutis, superficial scars (medium-depth peel); extensive areas of actinic…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Twelve-year-old girl with skin abnormality on thigh Skin colored subcutaneous papules – what is it? Case report: A twelve-year-old girl presented with a skin-colored change on the medial right thigh that had been present since early childhood. This was basically asymptomatic, but seemed to have…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Application examples for therapeutic success Acute treatment of atopic eczema in childhood In clinical practice, besides mild forms, one is regularly confronted with three characteristic eczema situations: exacerbated (whole body) eczema, chronic (flexural/hand) eczema and nummular (superinfected) atopic eczema. All eczema situations…
View Post 12 min This content is machine translated Lifestyle and psoriasis Influences of stress and nutrition Psoriasis sufferers have an increased risk of affective disorders. Accordingly, they should be asked about depression, anxiety, and problematic coping with illness such as social avoidance behavior and alcohol abuse.…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated EADV Copenhagen 2015 Of dermatologists’ favorites and worries The largest European dermatology meeting was once again the Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) in Copenhagen with more than 9500 participants. For 40 years, EADV…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 5th Zurich Dermatology Training Days Great variety of topics at the “What’s New” sessions At the 5th Dermatological Training Days in the Kongresshaus Zurich, the so-called “What’s New” sessions took place on Friday afternoon, in which current research results, therapy and diagnostic approaches were…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapy in dermatology Herbal medicines for contact dermatitis and atopic dermatitis. For skin diseases, herbal preparations can often be used, which sometimes work as well as steroids. In the following, two types of dermatoses are presented for which the use of…
