Sweaty Palms

Sweat glands act as the body’s natural thermostat. When they suddenly go into overdrive, you get sweaty palms and feet. While this can be socially embarrassing, the good news is that excessive sweating, or hyperhidrosis, can be controlled with treatment.

Besides hot, humid weather, stress and anxiety, there are other triggers for sweaty palms and feet:

• Caffeinated drinks and alcohol
• Hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar)
• Medicinal drugs (such as certain painkillers, cardiovascular drugs and antidepressants)
• Menopause
• Hyperthyroidism (overactive thyroid)

 How we treat Sweaty Palms?

1. Topical Products
2.  BOTOX (Botulinum toxin Injections )
3. Iontophoresis  – is most often used to treat severe sweating

To know more about Vitiligo and treatment, please contact us to make an appointment.

Vitiligo 

Vitiligo is a disease that causes the loss of skin color in blotches.The extent and rate of color loss from vitiligo is unpredictable. It can affect the skin on any part of your body. It may also affect hair and the inside of the mouth.

Normally, the color of hair and skin is determined by melanin. Vitiligo occurs when the cells that produce melanin die or stop functioning. Vitiligo affects people of all skin types, but it may be more noticeable in people with darker skin. The condition is not life-threatening or contagious. It can be stressful or make you feel bad about yourself.

Treatment for vitiligo may restore color to the affected skin. But it does not prevent continued loss of skin color or a recurrence.

Symptoms

The main sign of vitiligo is patchy loss of skin color. Usually, the discoloration first shows on sun-exposed areas, such as the hands, feet, arms, face and lips.

Vitiligo signs include:

• Patchy loss of skin color
• Premature whitening or graying of the hair on your scalp, eyelashes, eyebrows or beard
• Loss of color in the tissues that line the inside of your mouth and nose (mucous membranes)
• Loss of or change in color of the inner layer of the eyeball (retina)
• Vitiligo can start at any age, but often appears before age 20.

Depending on the type of vitiligo you have, the discolored patches may cover:

• Many parts of your body. With this most common type, called generalized vitiligo, the discolored patches often progress similarly on corresponding body parts (symmetrically).
• Only one side or part of your body. This type, called segmental vitiligo, tends to occur at a younger age, progress for a year or two, then stop.
• One or only a few areas of your body. This type is called localized (focal) vitiligo.

It’s difficult to predict how your disease will progress. Sometimes the patches stop forming without treatment. In most cases, pigment loss spreads and eventually involves most of your skin. Rarely, the skin gets its color back.

When to see a doctor

See your doctor if areas of your skin, hair or eyes lose coloring. Vitiligo has no cure. But treatment may help to stop or slow the discoloring process and return some color to your skin.

Causes

Vitiligo occurs when pigment-producing cells (melanocytes) die or stop producing melanin — the pigment that gives your skin, hair and eyes color. The involved patches of skin become lighter or white. Doctors don’t know why the cells fail or die. It may be related to:

• A disorder in which your immune system attacks and destroys the melanocytes in the skin
• Family history (heredity)
• A trigger event, such as sunburn, stress or exposure to industrial chemicals

Complications

People with vitiligo may be at increased risk of:

• Social or psychological distress
• Sunburn and skin cancer
• Eye problems, such as inflammation of the iris (iritis)
• Hearing loss

Treatment of Vitiligo

At Children Adult Skin Clinic,  we treat this condition through the following:

• Topical creams
• Through machine – Dermapal machine shining

To know more about Vitiligo and treatment, please contact us to make an appointment.

Chemical Peel

A facial peel refers to the application of one or more chemicals to the face which ‘burn’ off damaged cells. 

They may be used to treat damage caused by exposure to the sun, to remove pigmentation such and fine lines and wrinkles.

Uses of chemical peels:

Before the peel

The peel

Afterwards

• Keep treated areas cool (use a water spray).
• Do not pick! Picking delays healing and causes scarring
• Moisturise – use light preparations after a superficial peel, thicker moisturisers after a deeper peel
• Protect from the sun – especially for the first 6 months

Cafe A Lait

Café-au-lait macules (CALMs), or café-au-lait spots, are flat, oval lesions (marks) on the skin. Café-au-lait means “coffee with milk” in French. The name refers to the colour of the spots, as they are at least a shade darker than your child’s skin tone.

Café-au-lait macules commonly appear at birth but may develop later, during the first year of life. Their colour varies from light brown to dark brown.

How do CALMs affect the body?

CALMs are benign (harmless). They do not hurt or itch and never progress to anything serious such as skin cancer. The spots can become darker throughout childhood or with sun exposure, but this is not a cause for concern.

How are CALMs diagnosed?

CALMs are easily diagnosed by a skin examination. “Typical” CALMs range from light to dark brown and are well defined, even coloured and often round or oval. They vary in size and can appear anywhere on the skin, although they rarely appear on the face.

Other Aesthetic

These are other aesthetic treatments we offer at the clinic. Our clinic’s expertise and specialization is your confidence.

Ultherapy for Wrinkles

Wrinkles are creases, folds, or ridges in the skin. They normally appear as people get older, but they can also develop after spending a long time in water. The first wrinkles to appear on a person’s face tend to occur as a result of facial expressions.

Sun damage, smoking, dehydration, some medications, and environmental and genetic factors affect when and where people will develop wrinkles.

Most wrinkles tend to appear in the parts of the body which receive the most sun exposure, especially the face and neck, the back of the hands, and the arms. Ultrasound skin tightening is used to treat this. It uses time-tested ultrasound energy to lift and tighten the skin naturally — without surgery or downtime.

 
Dark Eye Circles

Sleep deprivation can cause your skin to become dull and pale, allowing for dark tissues and blood vessels beneath your skin to show. Lack of sleep can also causefluid to build underneath your eyes, causing them to appear puffy. As a result, the dark circles you see may actually be shadows cast by your puffy eyelids.

Ultherapy for Saggy Skin

Collagen and elastin help keep your skin firm. You may develop sagging skin with age as your skin loses its natural elasticity. Extrinsic factors such as repetitive facial expressions, sleeping positions, smoking and sun exposure can prematurely age your skin and lead to sagging.

Extreme or rapid weight loss may also contribute to saggy skin. Ultrasound skin tightening is used to treat this. It uses time-tested ultrasound energy to lift and tighten the skin naturally — without surgery or downtime. 

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Ultherapy for Turkey Neck

So-called turkey neck is the loose, baggy skin, that hangs on the neck and can be rather unsightly. It is develop with age as your skin loses its natural elasticity. There are few ways to treat this unsightly sagging skin on the neck. 

• Botox
• Topical 
• Ultrasound skin tightening
  Uses time-tested ultrasound energy to lift and tighten the skin naturally — without surgery or downtime.