From the category archives:

Body Skin

Don’t let a bath or shower dry out your skin

May 6, 2010

Kick Fido out the bath – and enjoy yourself!
These are products that help keep your skin moist during and after a bath or shower
I have used these products ever since I woke up one morning covered in bloody skin lesions, and and turned in desperation to these companies, when a top Dermatologist tried to [...]

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Age spots – and how to fade them

April 27, 2010

How to stop looking older
Age spots are a dead give-away.
As if cancer treatment wasn’t enough, you may find your hands in particular covered in ‘age spots’.
Nurses will tell you this is a side effect of chemo or radiotherapy – but won’t have any ideas about helping spots to fade away.  So this is time to [...]

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What I would tell Martina about handling cancer treatment

April 17, 2010

Image by franz88 via Flickr

Martina Navratilova is going to France for Radiotherapy, but worries about burns

Martina has decided to come out in the open and say she has Breast Cancer. She realised she could help others by going public and raising awareness that early detection can help save lives
With her fitness regime, no-one would [...]

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What to do when drugs cause skin lesions, dry patches, itching etc.

November 7, 2009

When this happens to your skin  Flickr

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DON’T DESPAIR
Our skin is [...]

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Body skin – looking after it

October 17, 2009

Roche Posay lion fighting for us   Wikipedia

YOUR BODY IS A HUGE  AREA OF SKIN

Shortly after I started on Tamoxifen, I woke up to find my sheets covered in blood, and skin lesions (bloody skin blisters) had broken out overnight all over my body.  So I made an appointment to see PD (Pompous Dermatologist).
Entering [...]

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Scars

November 8, 2008

Rose Hips (rosa canina)
Image via Wikipedia
SCARS
The first thing that happens after your op. is your nurse will lift up the nice clean white pad sticking to your wound. It doesn’t hurt, but they are curious to see if your surgeon has made a good job – or not!
This pad stays there for several days, [...]

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