Parasitic Diseases

Whether struggling with acne, an increase in wrinkles with aging, or getting a skin wound to heal, there are a variety of skin health issues many of us can relate to. The skin is the largest organ in the body, and new skin cells are constantly being made. Of course nutrition can impact skin health, but It's important to keep in mind many factors—like genetics and your environment—also have a big impact on skin health. Certain vitamins are helpful for skin health, as they provide the building blocks needed for skin and help the skin repair when damaged. They can often be found in topical skin care products. Vitamins A, C, D, and E especially can play a role in skin health. You can get most of these from food–or with vitamin D, from the sun. However if you do not eat enough foods with these nutrients, then supplements may be helpful to boost your intake of skin health nutrients.  Other nutrients like CoQ10, collagen, zinc, and omega 3s can also play a role in s...

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Pregnancy side effects can range from mild (grilled cheese cravings!) to moderate (puffy feet and hands) to downright debilitating – such as vomiting for weeks and months on end. But for Amy Graff, one of the worst ones for her cropped up at week 10: itchy, throbbing red bumps all over her legs that were so uncomfortable she ended up in urgent care. "Every inch of me had to be examined while the doctors ruled out various causes, like measles, flea bites, scabies, poison oak and allergies," she explains. In the end, a bad case of hives was the diagnosis. Graff was told that hives suddenly appear in pregnant women, but it's unclear why. Hormones might be to blame – or a new allergy can erupt for the first time in pregnancy, causing those pesky bumps.  Advertisement | page continues below At first, Graff opted for alternative therapies to fight the itch, including various oils, lotions, baking soda, and petroleum jelly. She even tried to avoid gluten and dairy. Ult...

Testing skincare products is an occupational hazard. In the past, I've been lucky. I'm relatively non-reactive (I used to claim). But, boy, have I been humbled. I had polished off the last of my morning serum, the Major Fade Hyper Serumby #PillowtalkDerm, which I highly recommend. I swapped in a vitamin C serum from a reputable brand that came highly recommended by derms and other editors. Also, Kaia Gerber uses the full line, non-sponsored. However, I wasn't really paying attention to this serum's label, which read: 25% L-ascorbic acid. You may be thinking, Careful with that! For those uninitiated, L-ascorbic acid is the active form of the antioxidant vitamin C, commonplace in today's "brightening" serums. According to dermatologists, L-ascorbic acid has long been credited as the most effective form of vitamin C, the gold standard, even. The problem? It's unstable and can, in high concentrations, cause irritation or an inflammatory reaction. While t...

Abstract Folic acid supplementation is recommended perinatally, but may increase unmetabolized folic acid (UMFA) in human milk; this is concerning as it is an inactive form which may be less bioavailable for the infant. "Natural" (6 S )-5-methyltetrahydrofolic acid [(6 S )-5-MTHF] is available as an alternative to folic acid, and may prevent the accumulation of UMFA in human milk. Pregnant women ( n  = 60) were enrolled at 8–21 weeks of gestation and randomized to 0.6 mg/day folic acid or (6 S )-5-MTHF. At ~ 1-week postpartum, participants provided a human milk specimen. Total human milk folate (nmol/L) and concentrations of UMFA (nmol/L) were quantified via LC–MS/MS. Differences between groups were evaluated using multivariable quantile/linear regression, adjusting for dietary folate, weeks supplementing, and milk collection methods. No significant difference in total milk folate was found; however, the median milk UMFA concentration was 11 nmol/L ...