Tag: Dry Skin

  • Vitamin Toxicity

    Namaste In the right doses, the cure can kill. Yet it is done as we self-medicate with the belief that we will prevent or abort occurring processes. Toxicity caused by vitamins can be acute, or it can be chronic. In the case of the former, toxicity causes increased intracranial pressure, drowsiness, irritability, abdominal pain, nausea,…

  • Eczema

    This disease is associated with infancy and early childhood with evidence appearing on the face, head, folds of the elbows, the knees or the groin. During the acute stage it causes inflamed red, dry and itchy skin. Sometimes the patches blister and weep before the area eventually crusts over. This is often brought on by…

  • Injury Management

    Namaste I was not there last week when some of the students were doing post-event massage for members of a cricket club, but I learnt that one of the players had a severe groin strain, so much so that the best of efforts at massage almost seemed futile as there was still much tension in…