The use of a daily hygiene product has shown to change the body’s bacterial community. Antiperspirant –keeps you dry- studies shows it’s disrupting the bacterial community under your armpits. The study that was published in the journal Peer J, questions current lifestyle norms that might alter the human “microbiome.” Microbiome refers to the trillions of bacteria and other microbes that…
Acne causing Bacteria lives on everyone’s skin. One in five people is develop only an occasional pimple over a lifetime. A UCLA study conducted with researchers at Washington University in St. Louis and the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute has discovered that acne bacteria contain “bad” strains associated with pimples and “good” strains that may…
The skin serves as a barrier protecting the body from the hundreds of allergens, irritants, pollutants and microbes’ people come in contact with every day. Eczema, or atopic dermatitis is considered the most common inflammatory human skin disease. In eczema patients the skin barrier becomes open, allowing intruders – pollen, mold, pet dander, dust mites…
The study has found the weakened immune system allows skin bacterial infections frequent recurrence that may be helping to grow cancer cells in skin lymphoma patients. A lymphoma patient’s fragile skin — caused by their weakened immune system– is more prone to bacterial infections. As the illness, the immune system becomes weaker and the progress of the bacterial infections has shown to increase. These bacterial…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed over the past week a dozen cases of Zika virus in travelers returning to the United States. Recent cases were identified in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. “This is a very new disease and are still learning a lot about this in a very short time,” Dr. Albert Icksang Ko, Yale…
