Audrey Kunin, MD

The DERMAdoctor
Blog Posts

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Chicken skin bumps – such a simple yet instantly identifiable description of the skin problem named keratosis pilaris (commonly dubbed "KP"). Can't you just visualize it? These minute, rough bumps...

Added to Skin Care, Beauty, Symptom Definition on Wed 05/16/2012

Exfoliation is perhaps the easiest method to rapidly restore a youthful appearance to the skin. As skin matures, it becomes drab, dull and lifeless.  Excessive build-up of dead skin cells and...

Added to Skin Care, Anti-Aging, Beauty, dermatology on Wed 05/09/2012

Each autumn, chapped lips make an appearance. Cold weather chapping is caused by environmental conditions that lead to dehydration. When lips are too dry from dehydration, painful cracking and...

Added to Skin Care, Beauty on Thu 09/22/2011

The T-zone is that notorious facial region spanning the forehead, nose and chin where oil glands are most highly concentrated. Mother Nature intended oil glands to serve a beneficial purpose. They...

Added to Skin Care, Beauty, dermatology on Tue 07/26/2011

Every day, an estimated 1 million Americans seek out tanning salons nationwide unaware that a mere 20 minutes spent in their favorite booth is equivalent to spending an entire day at the beach....

Added to Anti-Aging, Illness Prevention, Anti-Cancer on Wed 07/20/2011

Make your goal this summer to achieve sexy, age-defying arms. You may be long past the short-shorts phase of life. Perhaps you won’t be baring your midriff or wearing navel-plunging necklines....

Added to Skin Care, Fitness, Anti-Aging, Beauty, dermatology on Thu 07/07/2011

Memorial Day ranks as the #1 day for exposure to poison ivy. Synonymous with gardening, picnicking, hiking and sending your kids off to camp, poison ivy, oak and sumac seem like a ubiquitous...

And so after 25 years, Oprah Winfrey says farewell to daytime television. Yet the phrase "leaving nothing but the memories" will never be linked with Oprah. Someday, I suspect, there will be...

Melanoma Monday is the first Monday in May. This campaign, sponsored by the American Academy of Dermatology,...

Added to Skin Care, Cancer, Illness Prevention, dermatology on Mon 05/02/2011

There’s an old saying that “doctors make the worst patients.” I can personally attest to that. Somehow, despite my best of intentions, I frequently find myself falling out of sync with routine...

Added to Smart Patient, Illness Prevention, Wellness on Thu 03/31/2011

Got pores? Everyone does. Yet rarely have I encountered a patient who didn't think their pores were way too big. Pores are the passageway through which oils are released onto the skin....

Added to Skin Care, Anti-Aging, Beauty on Wed 03/02/2011

Confused by ads that toss about the phrase "pH balanced,” making a chemistry degree seem mandatory for undertaking a skincare routine? In a world where science melds with advertising, medical...

Added to Skin Care, dermatology on Thu 02/03/2011

Catherine Deneuve is famously quoted as having said, “After a certain age, a woman has to choose between her fanny and her face.” She could not have been more insightful. 

 

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Added to Anti-Aging, Move It and Lose It on Mon 01/24/2011

I love to cook. Yet much of my domestic culinary life has been shadowed by my obsession to remove unhealthy saturated fats from my family's diet. After all, isn't it a given that fat is bad for...

Added to Nutrition, Skin Care, Diet, dermatology on Thu 01/13/2011

There aren’t too many of us fortunate enough to escape some degree of chapped lips each winter. However, there are a surprising number of causes of chapping that have absolutely nothing to do with...

Added to Skin Care, dermatology on Wed 12/22/2010

It’s the most wonderful time of the year.  And yet, 8 years ago this month, I suffered a heart attack. At age 43. And supposedly in the best health I’d ever been. I was very lucky. I'm doing...

Added to Women's Health, Heart Health, Symptom Definition on Tue 12/21/2010

Whether you've been on a social whirlwind since Thanksgiving or are about to enter a blur of festivities from now until New Year's, the best way to stay looking fabulously festive is to pamper...

Added to Skin Care, Holidays, dermatology on Mon 12/13/2010