L’Alcool et la peau (éthylisme) – Urticaire et réactions anaphylactoïdes (Pour les professionnels)

Dr Christophe Hsu – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland Urticarial and anaphylactoid reactions reported to occur minutes after alcohol intake. May occur with anaphylactic symptoms reproductible with oral challenge with ethyl alcohol (=ethanol). may have genetic intolerance with defects in alcohol-metabolizing enzymes (Oriental flushing syndromes). Many though develop a reaction after red or white wine intake suggesting…

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L’Alcool et la peau (éthylisme) – Malnutrition (Pour les professionnels)

Malnutrition Zinc Clinically: erythematous crusting erosive sometimes bullous dermatitis periorificial: buccal, nasal, palpebral, anal, vulval, genital, flexural progressive alopecia diagnosis and treatment: reduced blood Zn and alkaline phosphatase, sometimes also reduced non esterified essential fatty acids (linoleic and arachidonic acid). IV or oral by zinc salts (gluconate, sulfate) leads to spectacular cures. Essential Fatty Acids…

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L’Alcool et la peau (éthylisme) – Infections (Pour les professionnels)

Infections: as the associations are incompletely understood, we have selected and summarized an article in the scientific literature Ness KJ, Fan J, Wilke WW, Coleman RA, Cook RT, Schlueter AJ. Chronic ethanol consumption decreases murine Langerhans cell numbers and delays migration of Langerhans cells as well as dermal dendritic cells. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2008…

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L’Alcool et la peau (éthylisme) – Vieillissement cutané (vieillissement de la peau) (Pour les professionnels)

Skin Aging: due to the partial understanding of the association, we have selected the following article from the scientific literature. Von Wurmb-Schwark N, Ringleb A, Schwark T, Broese T, Weirich S, Schlaefke D, Wegener R, Oehmichen M. The effect of chronic alcohol consumption on mitochondrial DNA mutagenesis in human blood. Mutat Res. 2008 Jan 1;637(1-2):73-9.…

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L’Alcool et la peau (éthylisme) – Cancer de la peau (Pour les professionnels)

Alcohol (OH) and the Skin – Table of Contents Skin Cancer by immunosuppression by associated nutritional deficiencies which alter mucosal integrity by impairing detoxification promotion: eg ENT Scc, oral for BCC incidence increased as well as infiltrative behaviour unclear for malignant melanoma. Due to the incomplete understanding as of today of the association, we have…

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Le cholestérol et la peau (hypercholestérolémie) – Introduction (pour les professionnels)

Hypercholesterolemia is the presence of high amounts of cholesterol in the blood; in the USA alone, 70 million individuals are affected. It is a risk factor for heart conditions such as myocardial infection. Causes are genetic, dietary, endocrinological (hypothyroidism, diabetes)… There are different types of circulating derivatives of cholesterol: HDL (High Density Lipoprotein) also known…

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