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Covid Skincare: What to do when you’re stuck in quarantine
Click on photo 🧴✨ Many friends have been messaging me that their skin is breaking out while they can’t go to a doctor because all the clinics are closed for anything it’s not an emergency during the epidemic. Here’s my interview with Massachusetts General Hospital News on skin care and sun protection during Covid19 with…
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How can I minimize my risk of Corona Virus? 🦠
Yes, this image of what could be the Galactic Empire’s next Death Star from Star Wars ins in fact corona virus 🦠So in response to questions, here’s my understanding and summary of the guidance I’ve read from the CDC and the medical/scientific community with a few Tips: This Virus lives a long time on surfaces…
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Question: How Can Diet Affect the Skin?
Now that the holidays are over and our attention shifts from the food associated with festivities back to fitness and wellness, many recent queries have unsurprisingly been about the role of diet in skin health and aging. For example, many have asked about the role of sugar, dairy, and gluten in their diets and whether…
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Sunscreens to Protect Against Skin Aging
Many of you have asked about taking sun protection to the next level, not only to protect against skin cancer, but also to protect against the aging of the skin, which is accelerated by sun exposure. For anti-aging benefits, one needs to look for other factors in addition to the SPF that is listed on…
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Question: What Can I Do for Dry Skin?
Question: What Can I Do for Dry Skin? Northern Exposure As a Texan having just moved to the North East, my first winter in Boston was full of new discoveries – torrential snowfall concealing entire streets, large ice blocks floating in the Charles River, and a souvenir from the cold weather of my new home,…
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Question: Is there such a thing as a healthy tan?
Fashion and Fiction… Decades of research and hundreds of thousands of skin cancer-related deaths have shown that there is no such thing as a “healthy tan.” Followers of the fashion trends of the past endured bleeding themselves into anemia and poisoning from lead-based cosmetics and arsenic ingestion in order to obtain the palest skin possible; in the 20th century as the tan was redefined to represent…
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Question: How do I choose a good sunscreen?
The Makings of a Good Sunscreen: In terms of sunscreen, there are two main categories: physical vs. chemical types. For those with sensitive skin, a physical sunscreen (those containing zinc or titanium as active ingredients) may be preferable to products with chemical sunscreens as the active ingredients, as the physical sunscreens are less likely to…
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Question: How can I prevent skin cancer?
May is Melanoma Awareness Month, and this edition of A.S.K the Derm is dedicated to my dear friend Jean Schlipmann and all the families affected by melanoma. The Epidemic In the US, 1 in 5 people will develop skin cancer in their lifetime, and about 1 in 60 will get invasive melanomas, the deadliest type…
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Dr. Shadi Kourosh 