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Skin disorder: Lichen planus
Lichen planus is a dermatological condition that appears on the skin as purple or even reddish-purple bumps, having an uneven shape, and presenting flakes or scales on their surface.
As a specific localization doctors consider the forearms, the inner wrists and the ankles, but they also look for lichen planus lesions on the scalp (small scalp areas that have lost their hair), the inside of the mouth (lacy white patches that can be found on the tongue or the inside of the cheeks), the genital area and the nails (here liquen planus gives the aspect of brittle or split nails).
The cause of lichen planus has not been yet well determined, but doctors say that this skin disorder can be linked quite often with the presence of hepatitis C and primary biliary cirrhosis. Stress factors are not a cause of this affection, but they can make it worse.
5 Simple but yet essential tips on how to maintain your hair healthy
Some women are born with beautiful hair and they don’t have to worry about volumizing, about bad hair days or about the fact that they might loose their hair before they get very old. Besides these lucky cases, we can say that the rest of us need some information on how to take care better of our hair in order to have a better external aspect and of course an improved self esteem.
These tips I will give you in this article are easy to apply, are not expensive and will generally inform you on how to correctly take care of your hair.
7 tips on feeling better in lousy days
Lousy days have not been something out of the ordinary during these last few months. As the world’s financial crisis seems to keep on ruling our lives, some of us might not feel as happy as they used to, and will tend to get a little bit moody and depressive.
In case you feel like not being yourself these days, like feeling tired and bored or even sad, here are a few things you can do in order to get yourself back on the right tracks:
- Think of small gains as being small steps towards success. Any tiny improvement of the current situation can be a progress and you should take advantage of it.
Great aliments for lowering high blood level of cholesterol
We all have heard by now that high cholesterol can cause a lot of problems in the human organism starting with skin issues, cardio-vascular diseases, liver affections, and a poor general state of health. If left untreated, sooner or later live threatening complications will start showing up. By exercising regularly and by giving up the unhealthy diets a lot of us follow day by day, we can find ourselves a path to walk on towards a healthy body.
As the LDL cholesterol level needs to be kept low and the HDL cholesterol level should be raised in our blood here are a few foods that will make it easier for you to reach a balanced cholesterol status:
Nail aspect changes: Normal or pointing towards an illness?
Even though they are a tiny peace of our organism, nails are very importnat. By looking carefuly at them you might observe that changes occure in their aspect quite often. Sometimes nails can be the mirror of your health system, meaning that nails can change their aspect if you suffer of different ilnesses and defficiencies, and so, they let you know something is not ok in your body.
Pitting – if minor you don’t need to worry, but in case it gets deeper or you observe the separation of the nail from the nail bed, you should think of a skin disease like 
psoriasis or eczema.
Clubbing- This situation can be found in people suffering of chronic lung, liver, heart or thyroid affections. You can recognise clubbing if the ends of the fingers swell and the adjacent nails bulge outward. Clubbing can also be encountered at the toes too. The nails have a shinier, and more raised and curved aspect than usual.