Hay Fever is also medically termed as rhinitis. It can be divided into Allergic Rhinitis and Non-Allergic Rhinitis.
Acne is a skin inflammatory condition that virtually affects every adolescent at some point during their teenage years. However, some adults may remain affected during their twenties or thirties.
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Acne affects up to approximately 88% of the adolescence locally. Although acne occurs during teenage years, the symptoms can continue 5 to 10 years and persist into adulthood in some patients. Acne can affect both males and females, though teenage boys have a predisposition for developing severe acne.
Acne skin condition is a clinical diagnosis. Your doctor will obtain a history of the progress of acne throughout the years (adolescence to adulthood), the treatment options that have tried, responses to various treatment and clinically examine your acne rash. Your doctor, rarely may offer further tests such as swab tests, biopsy if the diagnosis is unclear. Blood tests may be offered in certain treatment of severe acne.
Acne should be treated as early treatment can prevent scarring.
Treatment options include:
Mild Acne: Topical Medications
Moderate or Severe Acne: Oral Medications
Although there is no direct genetic linkage, having parents or siblings with severe acne increases your risk of developing acne.
Hay Fever is also medically termed as rhinitis. It can be divided into Allergic Rhinitis and Non-Allergic Rhinitis.
The same medication may not cause any reaction to a person, yet may cause unforeseen allergic reactions to another person.
The concept of early avoidance as prevention of future allergy has been challenged over recent years.
Allergy Immunotherapy modifies a person’s body immune response towards allergens, hence easing allergy symptoms.
Recognizing the signs and symptoms of anaphylaxis are important. This can be life-saving.
It is useful in allergic respiratory diseases such as allergic rhinitis and asthma.
This allergy is common among healthcare workers, people who have undergone multiple surgeries
Common insect stings in Singapore come from yellow jackets, hornets, wasps, and honey bees.
Checking the skin or nail lesion with wood lamp involves shining a hand-held wood lamp device on the area of concern by your physician.
Cryotherapy or colloquially known as ‘cold therapy’ is a procedure that uses liquid nitrogen to deliver freezing cold temperature locally to destroy and remove abnormal skin lesion.
Electrocautery is a bedside procedure where your doctor will use an ‘electric pen’ to deliver high frequency electric current onto the skin to generate heat in order to stop bleeding or remove abnormal skin cells
A steroid injection is simple bedside procedure where your doctor will inject minute amount of steroid onto the skin.
Skin cancer screening is usually performed by your physician using a dermatoscope. Dermatoscope is a medical magnifying glass that allows your physician to visualize the size and shape of the mole that you are concerned of.
Fungal scrape and bacterial culture tests allow physician to confirm or debunk fungal/bacterial diagnosis of skin condition
Skin tags are benign. They are also known as acrochordons medically. They are small, soft overgrowth of the skin commonly located among the face, eyelids neck, armpit, groin, breasts and buttock folds.
An excision biopsy is a bedside procedure where your doctor uses a surgical blade to remove the entire skin lesion under the use of local anaesthesia.
A shave biopsy a bedside procedure where your doctor uses a surgical superficial shaving blade to remove the skin lesion under the use of local anaesthesia.
A skin biopsy, or punch biopsy, is a bedside surgical procedure where your physician will use a small knife ‘puncher’ to obtain a small skin sample under local anaesthesia.
Herpes zoster, commonly referred to as shingles, is a painful blistering rash caused by the varicella-zoster virus— the same virus that causes chickenpox.
Seborrheic Dermatitis is a common chronic inflammatory condition of the skin. It is categorized as a type of chronic eczema, affecting the body area that has more sebaceous glands. characterized by red, greasy scaly patches.
Living in a hot humid climate of Singapore, fungal infection of the skin is common. The fungus thrives and favors body areas that are moist and warm such as the armpit, breast folds, groin, buttocks, feet, toes or even nails.
Eczema is a common inflammation condition of the skin. Although eczema can occur any time in one’s life, it typically starts presenting when one is a child.
Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin condition. It is a common skin disease that can affect 1 in 50 people.
Nearly 20% of people will get hives at some point in their lifetime. While they may not be life-threatening, hives can potentially cause both physical and emotional issues, particularly if they occur frequently.