Posts Tagged ‘medication’
7. Thyroid Preparations
Thyroid preparations are represented by some thyroid medications, such as Thiouracil or Thiourea, and they are used for stimulating the thyroid gland in patients with low thyroid function.
However, these preparations are known for triggering acne. If taken in large quantities, iodine, which also helps to regulate the thyroid function, might as well cause acne [...]
6. Quinine
Quinine is also a very old medication that is prescribed for a very old disease: malaria. Malaria remained a plague of the third world’s countries and if you are traveling in these regions you should know that malaria still exists and represents a real risk.
But because quinine may trigger acne breakouts, be sure to [...]
5. INH
INH or Isoniazid is typically used for treating TB or tuberculosis. Although tuberculosis represents a disease that was thought to have been largely eradicated, it experienced resurgence in the late 1980s among the poor and homeless populations, as well as in patients suffering from AIDS.
Known for being a disease triggered by poverty and the inexistence [...]
4. Immuran
Like other immunosuppressants, Immuran is used for suppressing the immune system in patients awaiting an organ transplant. This medication can be helpful in preventing organ rejection.
But on the other hand, it can also suppress the body’s natural ability to fight the bacteria that cause acne.
3. Disulfuram
Disulfuram, which could be found also under the name of Antabuse, represents a strange medication, as it is prescribed for helping chronic alcoholic patients to remain in state of enforced sobriety.
With this drug, the idea is that when it gets mixed with alcohol, the drug causes a wide range of unpleasant symptoms that are intended [...]
2. Corticosteroids
Corticosteroids represent a class of steroid hormones that are naturally produced in our adrenal cortex; they are involved in a wide range of physiologic systems, such as immune response, stress response, regulation of inflammation and carbohydrate metabolism and protein catabolism and even our behavior, for example.
As we’ve already said before, although they are tiny, apparently [...]
There Is Something You Should Know…
After we’ve provided you with these simple, but important tips and tricks that would help you use only the good parts of what hygiene should mean for a common, normal human being, we will bring you other items of useful information. We will talk this time about medications and not about hygiene and the fact [...]