What Others are Saying About Light Therapy| My doctor says I have a skin condition called Pompholyx. What is it? | | Pompholyx, also known as Dyshidrotic eczema or dyshidrotic dermatitis, is a skin rash that appears on the hands and feet. It is characterized by itchy and fluid-filled red vesicles which appear on the skin~ hence the name pompholyx which means bubble. Its cause is unknown but potential causative factors are believed to include bacterial infection, allergic reaction, and emotional stress.
The rash can be a one-off or can be recurrent, and usually disappears spontaneously within 1-3 weeks. Steroids are sometimes used to treat the ailment. Ultra-Violet light therapy is also common, and, in some cases, immunosuppressant drugs will also be employed. If it is believed that emotional factors are causing or aggravating the condition, identifying and eliminating the sources of stress can be an important part of the healing process. | |
| | Killer Fat | | "I wish I were a rat," Frank Garofolo, a 56-year-old investment banker in Boston, said recently. Garofolo has diabetes, as do his mother, father, and brother; his sister died of it. He had just been told about an experiment at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City in which a plump lab rat lost more than half its intra-abdominal fat when it was exposed to a drug-and-light therapy usually used to kill tumors. A couple of years earlier, Garofolo had submitted to experimental surgery himself at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, during which a surgeon pulled chunks of ivory-colored fat out through small openings in his belly. Although the loss of 4? pounds of intra-abdominal fat allowed Garofolo to go from a tight size 44 belt to a loose one, it didn't have the effect he so fervently desired—boosting his insulin sensitivity and lessening the severity of... | |
| | Drug approved to prevent seasonal affective disorder | | Longtime sufferers of seasonal depression may now have a way to stop the winter blues before they start. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday that it has approved the prescription medication Wellbutrin XL to prevent major depressive episodes caused by seasonal affective disorder. The antidepressant is the first drug approved to treat the condition, which is estimated to affect as many as 10 million Americans each year.In these people, low levels of sunlight during autumn and winter can trigger a depression that may last as long as six months. Common symptoms include fatigue, oversleeping, impaired social functioning, and weight gain. Doctors often use antidepressant medications and light therapy to treat seasonal affective disorder; now, GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of Wellbutrin XL, will be able to market the drug expressly as a preventive measure that can be... | |
| | Mars experiment could benefit insomniacs | | Insomniacs may have reason to hope. Hope, that is, beyond prescription drugs that have recently been known to turn some some users into sleepwalking wrecks.
Scientists have discovered light therapy might help people whose insomnia is caused by an internal body clock that is longer or shorter than normal, according to an article from Reuters.Researchers from Harvard found that light therapy can help astronauts having a hard time adjusting to life on Mars, where days last nearly 25 hours.According to the research, which was commissioned by NASA, two 45-minute two 45-minute exposures to bright light in the evening could help people whose sleep rhythm is out of balance. | |
| | Could you believe that light can cure you? | | There is a thought that you can heal the human body with a beam of light. Sounds like a Star Trek kind of thing. Today's doctors though are finding they can use different kinds of light in medicine.
There are researchers explorig things like penetrating beams of light that seem to repair heart tissue after a heart attack, and maybe light therapy maybe can improve Alzheimer's patients that cannot sleep through the night. Doctor's are remedying he side effects of cancer treatment, severe acne, and other ailments just be shining high intensity light in varying colors on the affected areas.
LED's are often used. No heat and pain free.
Light appears to work on human tissue at the cellular level, transfers energy to the mitochondria which function as microscopic power plants that help the body to repair. Light seems to speed up or slow down certain chemical processes in cells.
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| | Psoriasis | | Ne one which this skin ailment can discuss treatment options here...
to begin with i can give u info abt this ailment...Psoriasis is skin disorder where in the superficial layer of skin grows real fast and so u notice scaling... usually silvery scales are seen over elbows, knees, scalp... it may spread and cover the entire body eventually... if one tries to remove the scale thrs bleeding seen.. the things often prescribed for this dis are --- steroid ointment if its in mild stage.. sun tanning and PUVA (light therapy) may also help.. if its getting worse and causing crippling arthritis thn one can b started on methotrexate drug orally | |
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