The most common type of hyperthyroidism, Graves' disease, may additionally cause eye problems (Graves' ophthalmopathy) and skin changes of the legs (pretibial myxedema).
Irene Njoroge's mission to raise awareness among black African women of the grave risks associated with skin-lightening creams (The Saturday Profile, June 15) skirts the societal ill from which this practice stems.
Of course, to reduce Obama to the colour of his skin is a grave oversimplification, even if he has been keen to emphasise his "black roots".
Three singles were released from Parables for Wooden Ears; "Tail", released on 14 June 1994, "Grave Concern", released on 22 August 1994, and "Save Your Skin", released on 22 July 1995.
Because only when we do, can we resurrect from the grave, pump blood back into our systems, have our skins grow back and become visible once again.
Although less common than pneumonia and bacteremia, complicated skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) can be grave enough to warrant ICU care.
Its path is straight to the grave and women like me can hope for nothing more than thinning hair and skin, loss of bone density, weight gain, night sweats, smelling strangely even to ourselves and that ever wonderful "vaginal atrophy".
"I used to rub oil into her back because her skin dried easily; now I rub oil into the drying oak of her grave marker".
Thyroid dermopathy or localized myxedema is characterized by localized thickening of the skin and is a late and rare manifestation of autoimmune thyroiditis, particularly of Graves' disease.
In it, she is pushed into a shallow grave while crying and handcuffed symbolism that all but screamed how desperately uncomfortable she was in her own skin.
