Sentences with phrase «damage to my skin as»

Certain activities that accompany CCD, such as licking and sucking behaviors, can become damaging to the skin as well.

Not exact matches

Sugar has no nutritive value and raises blood glucose levels, stimulating the release of insulin as well as the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGE's) which can damage skin collagen and lead to wrinkles, among many other issues.

Additionally, MCTs are known to protect your hair from damage and acts as a natural moisturizer for your skin.

«Too much sugar in your diet will lead to an age accelerating process in your body known as glycation and glycation does damage to the collagen in your skin making you lose skin elasticity causing wrinkles to appear,» affirms Dr. Calapai.

In addition to prevention and revitalization, DreamBelly serves as a restorative balm that works to strengthen damaged collagen and hydrate dry surface skin.

Ones that include aloe vera extract are recommended as this is linked to repairing damaged skin too.

KH: Long term unprotected sun exposure can lead to lots of undesired effects such as skin cancer, long term sun damage and early skin aging.

I also find it a little alarming that according to the succinic acid MSDS sheet, it is regarded as a skin and respiratory irritant and can cause serious damage to the eyes.

Make sure you are not rubbing their skin with force as this is damaging to their skin barrier.

Doctors were antagonistic to rubber pants because they believed that the rubber would act as a poultice and damage the baby's skin.

As your babyâ $ ™ s skin is very sensitive to sun, it should be protected well to avoid damage.

Affected infants typically develop feeding difficulties, a lack of energy (lethargy), a failure to gain weight and grow as expected (failure to thrive), yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes (jaundice), liver damage, and bleeding.

Lanolin, a natural ointment produced by sheep, is often used as an ingredient to treat damaged skin.

Its purpose is to help people to effectively protect themselves from UV light, which causes sunburns, eye damage such as cataracts, skin aging, and skin cancer (see the section health effects of ultraviolet light).

«The cornea is the most densely innervated tissue in the body, so corneal nerve assessment is extremely sensitive for detecting small sensory nerve fiber damage as compared to other tests including measurement of intra-epidermal nerve fibers in the skin,» notes lead investigator Joseph L. Mankowski, DVM, PhD, who is Professor of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology, Pathology, and Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD..

In a report on their study, published June 20 as an Early View article online in Annals of Neurology, the Johns Hopkins team found that increasing levels of the protein clumps corresponded with worsening nerve damage, indicating that the smaller skin biopsies they used appear to work well as a measure of disease severity.

Such antibodies, when attached to DNA in complexes, get lodged in the walls of arteries and in tissues to cause inflammation that damages blood vessels, skin, joints and the kidneys as part of the most severe type of lupus, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

While vitamins C and E have also shown an ability to protect the skin from sun damage, Dr. Lim does not recommend these supplements to his patients as a sun protection method.

When exposed to UV rays, the mice with dark pigment had less DNA damage and sunburn, as well as fewer skin tumors, compared with untreated mice (SN: 9/23/06, p. 196).

Still's disease is a serious orphan disease manifested by high fevers, skin and joint involvement, including paralysis, as well as damage to other organs such as the liver or spleen.

«If the vitality of the skin model is damaged by more than 30 percent when compared to a non-irradiated model, we classify the test substance as a phototoxic,» said Thude.

UV damage to the skin causes the immune system to recruit numerous signalling molecules — such as chemokines — and immune cells to fight infection.

«From a health perspective, oxidative stress in the cells causes different types of damage in the body, for example, skin ageing or various infections, contributing to illnesses such as arthritis and Alzheimer's,» says Harri Latva - Mäenpää.

Some specialists are dismayed at what they see as the intrusion of commercial interests into public health issues, while others are beginning to question whether sunscreens eliminate all the biological damage that contributes to skin cancer.

Many tissues of our bodies, such as our skin, can heal because they contain stem cells that can divide and differentiate into the type of cells needed to repair damaged tissue.

«The results position TRPV4 as a new target for preventing and treating sunburn, and probably chronic sun damage including skin cancer or skin photo - aging, though more work must be done before TRPV4 inhibitors can become part of the sun defense arsenal, perhaps in new kinds of skin cream, or to treat chronic sun damage,» said Steinhoff, co-senior author of the study.

These cells are now thought to serve as the immune system's principal sentinels in the skin — when they detect damage signals from nearby wounded skin cells, they summon other, non-skin-resident immune cells to the site of the wound.

Whether burned by the sun, attacked by microbes, nicked by a paper cut or worse, the skin quickly becomes inflamed — red, swollen, and painful — as the body seeks to halt the damage and initiate repair.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

Those markers can tell the story of human adaptation as early man moved from equatorial Africa into lower - light regions, and may explain changes in skin pigmentation to metabolize more sunlight, or how indoor living has silently damaged human health.

The ability of scientists to convert human skin cells into other cell types, such as neurons, has the potential to enhance understanding of disease and lead to finding new ways to heal damaged tissues and organs, a field called regenerative medicine.

Rather than sending a message to the brain, as nose receptors do, the receptor triggered cells to divide and migrate, important processes in repairing damaged skin (Journal of Investigative Dermatology, doi.org/tkm).

The ozone layer acts as Earth's sunscreen by absorbing harmful ultraviolet radiation from incoming sunlight that can cause skin cancer and damage plants, among other harmful effects to life on Earth.

Such behaviors include extreme weight control methods, such as diet pills, self - induced vomiting, laxatives and diuretics; cosmetic surgery and Botox injections; spa treatments, such as hair removal by waxing (which has been associated with rashes and infections) and gel nail polish (done with UV curing and associated with DNA damage to the skin that can result in premature aging and possibly cancer; and tattoos or piercings.

Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Eastern Finland have developed new «sensing skin» technology designed to serve as an early warning system for concrete structures, allowing authorities to respond quickly to damage in everything from nuclear facilities to bridges.

The potential of iPS cells to help treat everything from damaged heart tissue to Parkinson's disease, has prompted intensive research that has looked into the use of skin fibroblast cells as an alternative to controversial embryonic stem cells.

Known as children of the moon, XP patients lack the enzymes to cut out damaged DNA and are so sensitive to UV light that even fluorescent lights can blister their skin.

One of the most serious classifications of this disease is known as diffuse scleroderma wherein the «sclerosis» (hardening of the tissue) occurs in the internal systems of the body, causing damage and widespread scarring to the skin as well as to various internal organs such as the lungs, kidneys, heart and gastrointestinal organs.

The report credited the Montreal Protocol, which it called «one of the world's most successful environmental treaties,» for the recovery of the ozone layer, which it projects will help prevent two million cases of skin cancer by 2030, besides preventing damage to humans» immune systems as well as wildlife and agriculture.

These penetrate tissue and heat up when excited by radio - frequency waves; and they have been shown to thaw arteries and heart valve tissue from pigs, as well as human skin cells, rapidly and evenly, without the typical damage.

In humans, melanocytes function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure (UVR).

Studying owl monkeys and squirrel monkeys, he found that damage to a nerve, or loss of one or two fingers caused the portion of the map that had lost its input to be overtaken by neighbouring maps, as neurons in the affected area became responsive to other areas of skin.

In humans, these cells function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure.

RepliCel's autologous cell therapy, RCS - 01, to be investigated as a potential treatment for aged and UV - damaged skin.

Nuts not only serve as a mid-afternoon pick - me - up, but they are also an effective anti-ageing snack — many nuts are enriched with the trace element selenium, which according to a 2003 study published in the British Journal of Dermatology, can protect the skin from oxidative damage.

Yet according to recent Newspoll research, only 10 per cent of respondents to a survey on UV damage mentioned harm to the eyes as a negative effect, compared to 94 per cent who mentioned cancer and 75 per cent who specifically noted skin cancer.

Foods such as avocado, pomegranate, watermelon, and lobster are rich in vitamins and minerals that fight skin - aging damage and help to erase the years.

Typical sunscreens have active ingredients that act as a protective layer on the skin to deflect the rays that might otherwise cause UV damage.

Yet, it turns out the 22 - square - foot (on average) external organ that is our skin not only gives us a presentable appearance, but keeps us from evaporating, guards the body from damaging sun rays, and acts as a semipermeable membrane that allows us to absorb vitamins, minerals, and — here's where the horrified piece comes into play — chemicals!

Exposure to UV rays causes pigmentation, prominent blood vessels, wrinkles and other signs of premature ageing as it damages skin's constituent collagen and elastin.