Articles categorized as Dry Skin

Anticholinergic Drugs | Dry Mouth and Alzheimer Disease?

Do you medications cause dry mouth, blurred vision and constipation? If so, you may be taking anticholinergic drugs. What can you do about a dry mouth?

How Aysa, an AI App, Helped a Mother with her Child’s Rash

Aysa, a new app for your tablet or smart phone, can help you determine what is wrong so you'll know whether you need to see the doctor.

Overcoming Chapped Lips and Dry Skin in the Winter

Are you suffering from chapped lips and dry skin? They often go together. If your hands feel like sandpaper and you're licking your lips, we have remedies.

Can You Heal Sore Fingertips with Salve?

How to Get Dry Skin to Stop Itching

Finding a powerful moisturizer and applying it after washing can help dry skin feel better and stop itching.

Does Castor Oil Clear Actinic Keratosis?

One reader reports that castor oil helped eliminate a pre-cancerous skin lesion called actinic keratosis. Will it help anyone else?

Soothing Dry Skin

Moisturize and protect dry skin with a cream that contains 20 percent urea.

Brutal Winter Causes Excruciating Dry Skin

Dry cold Midwestern weather can wreak havoc on skin and lips. What do readers offer when fingertips crack and skin feels like sandpaper?

Nurse Uses Nail Polish to Heal Split and Cracked Fingertips

Health professionals have to fight seriously dry skin, cracked and split fingertips because of constant hand washing. Find out how the pros heal dry skin.

Frequent Hand Washing Takes a Toll

Washing hands often with soap and water can lead to uncomfortably dry skin.

Baby, It’s Cold Outside and Our Skin is Suffering!

Dry cold air outside and dry heated air inside are wreaking havoc with skin. Readers share lots of remedies for sandpaper skin.

Looking Beyond the Usual for Dry Skin Solutions

Antibacterial Soap Dried Hands

Dry Skin Misery Needs Oolong Tea

Can Hemorrhoid Cream (Prep H) Work for Wrinkles?

If you asked people what they'd most like to change about their appearance, many would say their wrinkles. Can Preparation H get rid of them or not?

Husband’s Obsessive Hand Washing Drives Wife Crazy

Home Remedies for Holiday Hazards

The holidays seem like fun and games--time to hang out with family and friends. Beware the dangers. We offer home remedies to the rescue.

Healing Hands Is Hard in the Winter

Protecting Dry, Cracked Skin

Some Solutions For Persistent Dry Skin

Acid Mantle For Dry, Cracked Skin

Remedy for Cracked Heels

Winter Skin Problems Bring Misery

Are you suffering from winter skin? Are your knuckles red and rough? Do you have cracked fintertips? There are some inexpensive solutions to dry rough skin.

Vicks Vaporub Heals Sore Heels

People complain about dry, cracked hands, especially if they have been washing dishes. What about dry, sore heels? What can you do for them?