Skin checks
Have you had a skin check lately?
Skin checks are not only prevention practices. Regular checks can help identify your skin problems in their earliest stages in particular, melanoma which can be life-threatening. At Al Mahmoud Medical Center, we’re dedicated to making the skin check process as quick and painless as possible. This check covers your entire body, as skin problems can show up in the most unusual places, that’s why a thorough check is important. During the skin check process, our doctors will carefully inspect your moles and freckles, and also take a closer look at any irregularities in the hair follicles and capillaries. As we perform this procedure, our doctors will detect any signs and make note of anything unusual then proceed to recommendations and treatment the right away!
Warts
Let’s Get Everything Perfectly Clear!
Warts are a benign skin growth condition that appear when a virus infects the top layer of your skin. These viruses are called human papillomavirus (HPV) and are most likely to infect you if you cut or damage your skin in some way. Warts come in a wide range of shapes and sizes. A wart may be bumpy with a rough surface, or it may be flat and smooth. Although Warts are not cancerous, Wart viruses are contagious and can spread by contact with the wart or something that touched it.
Management and Treatment:
The goals of treatment are to destroy the wart, stimulate an immune system response to fight the virus, or both. The treatment used depends on the patient’s age and health as well as the type of the wart. Our dermatologists at Al Mahmoud Medical Center are very experienced in diagnosing and treating warts either for adults or children, even the rarest and most complex types.
Rosacea
Do you blush easily? It’s not just shyness.
If your face looks like you’re blushing and you get bumps that are a bit like acne, you might have a skin condition called Rosacea. Rosacea can be an unpleasant skin condition characterized by redness, pimples, swelling, and small superficial dilated blood vessels on the forehead, cheeks, chin and nose Less often, the color can appear on your neck, head, ears, or chest. It is more commonly found in people with lighter skin. The most common causes of facial redness are exposure to sunlight, stress, blood vessel troubles, an unbalanced diet, menopause, blood pressure or even your genes. Rosacea often leads to painful stinging and burning, skin itching, and acne. Our skin experts at Al Mahmoud Medical Center can treat the effects of Rosacea so you can have spotless, even-colored and smooth skin that you’ll love.
Management and Treatment
Medical therapeutic care
Our skin experts are very experienced with Rosacea and Rosacea acne. We recommend the proper treatment for you after individually assessing your unique symptoms and skin care history then develop a personalized series of combined treatments that will bring you optimum results.
Long-lasting results
Laser therapy is perfect for keeping Rosacea under control and reducing the arising redness and visible blood vessels on your face and even for improving your overall skin texture. Our experts will provide you a combination of the latest available laser treatments that are fast and an easy solution for permanently reducing your face flush and removing visible capillaries. This laser treatment mainly uses intense pulsed light to shrink these visible capillaries for a long lasting effect. Afterwards our doctors will recommend you the perfect maintenance procedures.
Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Have you ever used a new type of skin care product or cleanser that caused your skin to become red, itchy and irritated?
If so, you may have experienced contact dermatitis. This condition occurs when chemicals you come into contact with cause a reaction with your skin. Dermatitis isn’t infectious, but it can make you feel uncomfortable and self-conscious. To control your dermatitis, it’s important to find the precise cause. Our experts at Al Mahmoud Medical Center take the time to listen to you and conduct the tests needed to make an accurate diagnosis. The results of your dermatitis testing are available quickly so you can discuss them with our doctors. Evaluation and treatment that might take months elsewhere can typically be done in only a matter of days at Al Mahmoud Medical Center.
Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
Do you suffer from skin inflammations or irritations? Then most probably you are suffering from Eczema.
Eczema is a skin condition that makes your skin red, itchy and bumpy. Eczema damages the skin
barrier function (the “glue” of your skin). This loss of barrier function makes your skin more sensitive and more prone to infection and dryness. Eczema is caused either of your immune system activation that overreacts to small irritants or allergens, Genetics if there is a history of dermatitis in your family, environmental triggers like exposure to tobacco smoke, air pollutants, harsh soaps, fabrics such as wool and some skin products, stress where your stress levels can cause or worsen your eczema or a combination of all.
barrier function (the “glue” of your skin). This loss of barrier function makes your skin more sensitive and more prone to infection and dryness. Eczema is caused either of your immune system activation that overreacts to small irritants or allergens, Genetics if there is a history of dermatitis in your family, environmental triggers like exposure to tobacco smoke, air pollutants, harsh soaps, fabrics such as wool and some skin products, stress where your stress levels can cause or worsen your eczema or a combination of all.
Management and Treatment
No cure has been found for Eczema but many health professionals believe that it develops due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors, however treatments and self-care measures can relieve itching and prevent new outbreaks. At Al Mahmoud Medical Center our doctors will suggest the best treatment plan based on your age, symptoms, and current state of health.
Psoriasis
Get rid of the annoying Psoriasis!
When Psoriasis flares, it causes skin cells to grow abnormally fast ¬– in just days instead of weeks resulting in an accumulation of cells and thick patches of red skin with silvery scales that might flake off like dandruff. These areas can occur anywhere on the body although the most common areas for Psoriasis to develop are the knees, palms, elbows, scalp, back, face, and feet and are usually itchy and aching. Our Care team at Al Mahmoud Medical Center offers all treatments for this disease, that can help you manage its symptoms and minimize its potential complications
Management and Treatment
Psoriasis is unique for everyone, and the effects range from mild to almost totally disabling, Psoriasis treatments aim to stop skin cells from growing so quickly and to remove scales. Our doctors at Al Mahmoud Medical Center will personalize your psoriasis care to ensure an accurate diagnosis and an effective treatment plan that will perfectly fit your case. Treatment options might include creams and ointments, light therapy (phototherapy) and oral or injected medication.
Acne
Annoyed by Acne? Is acne affecting your self-confidence?
Here at Al Mahmoud Medical Center we realize your acne affects more than your skin, it affects how you look and how you feel about how you look. Even the mildest breakouts can be embarrassing. Let’s get treated with our intensive acne medic treatment plan to solve your acne problem.
What Causes Acne?
Acne can be caused by Hormones that lead to increased oiliness in the skin, an altered skin renewal process that leads to pores becoming clogged with oil and dead skin cells, Normal bacteria on the skin or as a response that occurs as clogged pores and the areas around them become inflamed, resulting in visible acne
Management and Treatment
While we all may get the occasional blister, when the condition is persistent, seeking help early can help get it under control and reduce its physical, social and emotional effects. Our dermatologists at Al Mahmoud Medical Center will offer you variety of different acne therapies that ranges from topical prescription products, oral prescriptions, chemical peels, or laser treatment. Additionally, post-treatment there are several routes that they will recommend you to reduce acne scarring, these routes include micro-needling and laser treatment.
Moles/Birthmarks & other skin lesions
Moles
If you are born with a mole, it is considered a birthmark. People often call these birthmarks “beauty marks.” But not all moles are birthmarks. Moles are a common type of skin growth formed when skin cells grow in a cluster formation instead of being spread throughout the skin. Moles generally appear during childhood and adolescence and they range in color from pink to light brown or black. They also vary in size and may be flat or raised. Most moles are harmless but some may become cancerous. Monitoring moles and other pigmented patches is an important step in early skin cancer detection, especially malignant melanoma.
Birthmarks
Birthmarks are colored marks on the skin that are present at birth or soon afterwards. There are two main types of birthmarks “Vascular birthmarks” that happen when blood vessels don’t form correctly and “Pigmented birthmarks” that are caused by an overgrowth of the cells that create pigment in skin (melanocytes). Both types have different causes. Most birthmarks are harmless and do not need treatment, but some can indicate an underlying medical condition and may need treatment because of their location, this is why it’s important to get a birthmark checked if you’re
worried about it
worried about it
Management and Treatment:
If you want a mole/birthmark removed for a medical or cosmetic reason, our expert dermatologists at Al Mahmoud Medical Center will evaluate your case and advise you on either of the following possibilities:
– Medication: to reduce blood flow to the birthmark, that can slow down its growth and make it lighter in color
– Laser therapy: where heat and light are used to make the birthmark smaller and lighter
Skin infections
Your Skin health is a major part of your overall health!
Your skin is the largest organ of your body and it is your first line of defense against infection as the many layers of skin provide different types of protection. However, sometimes the skin itself becomes infected. These Infections are caused by a wide variety of germs but usually come from one of three main causes: bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Yeasts and parasites can cause them, too. Some infections involve just the skin, and others also involve the soft tissues under the skin.
How does skin infection take place?
A small cut in your skin is all it takes for a microorganism to invade and enter into your skin. Often this is how a skin infection takes root. Sometimes a cut in the skin isn’t the main cause, As the weakness of your immune system or misdirection into attacking the wrong things gives this microorganism the upper hand to start invading causing the skin infections to be more complex.
Relatively minor infections include Carbuncles, Eczema , Erythrasma, Folliculitis, Furuncles. More serious bacterial skin and skin structure infections can include Necrotizing skin infections, Wound infections, Cellulitis, Erysipelas, Lymphangitis, , …etc.
Relatively minor infections include Carbuncles, Eczema , Erythrasma, Folliculitis, Furuncles. More serious bacterial skin and skin structure infections can include Necrotizing skin infections, Wound infections, Cellulitis, Erysipelas, Lymphangitis, , …etc.
Treatment/ Management
Skin infection symptoms can vary from mild to serious, symptoms also vary depending on the type. Common symptoms include redness and a rash. You may also experience other symptoms, such as itching, pain, and tenderness. A good medical exam is the best way to determine what exactly is causing your skin infection. Our expert dermatologists at Al Mahmoud Medical Center can identify the type of skin infection based on the appearance and location. In other cases, a sample of skin cells will be needed to determine the type of infection.
Sun Damage and Precancerous Lesions
Are you a morning person that adores the sunlight!
Although most of us love the light and warmth of the sun, excessive sun exposure over years has a profound effect on our skin and can significantly damage it. This damage includes not only allergic reactions and painful sunburns caused by the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) radiation but also wrinkles appearance and other long-term changes in your skin structure like prematurely skin aging which can significantly affect your natural beauty. Its true sunlight stimulates vitamin D production which causes a sense of well-being and helps control some chronic skin diseases such as psoriasis but the excessive subjection to sun’s heat dries out unprotected skin areas and depletes the skin’s supply of natural lubricating oils that can cause even more threatening effects like actinic keratosis and early subjection to skin cancer.
Symptoms
There is a lot of sunburn signs and symptoms that can include, Changes in skin tone, such as pinkness or redness, skin that feels warm or hot to the touch, pain and tenderness, swelling, small fluid -filled blisters- which may break, headache, fever, nausea and fatigue-if the sun burn is severe-, eyes that feel painful or gritty and others..
Management and Treatment
More important than appearance is the long-term impact of sun damage on your chances of developing skin cancer. The more unprotected sun exposure you have during your lifetime, the greater your risk of skin cancer, especially if you have a light complexion. The type of treatment depends on the form of sun damage whether dry skin, sunburn, actinic keratosis or long-term changes in the skin’s collagen, whatever your symptoms and condition, you can count on us in Al Mahmoud Medical Center to get the personalized, skilled, experienced attention you deserve