Impetigo on Black Skin: What It Looks Like in Kids and What to Do
Impetigo is a common, very treatable skin infection in children, but most descriptions lead with redness that can be hard to see on brown skin. Here i…
674 articles on the conditions that hit Black families hardest, written for our community and reviewed by clinicians. Every piece names its author, its medical reviewer, and where the photograph came from.
Impetigo is a common, very treatable skin infection in children, but most descriptions lead with redness that can be hard to see on brown skin. Here i…
Discoid lupus leaves coin-shaped patches with dark rims and pale centers, and on the scalp it can scar hair follicles shut for good. Here is how it sh…
Most white or light patches on Black skin come from tinea versicolor, pityriasis alba, a healed rash or injury, sun-and-age spots, or vitiligo. Vitili…
Extra hair in your comb this fall is usually normal seasonal shedding, which peaks in late summer and early fall. A shed hair is a full strand with a …
Hard, itchy bumps that keep coming back are often prurigo nodularis, and Black adults carry a large share of it. Here is how it looks on darker skin, …
Skin tags are harmless, but on brown and black skin they can be a blood sugar signal, and the wrong removal method can leave a light or dark spot that…
On brown and black skin, lichen planus can look gray or brown rather than red or violet, and the dark marks it leaves can outlast it. Here is what to …
Most men with trich feel nothing, which is how it keeps moving between partners. Here is what symptoms can look like, the urine test to ask for by nam…
On brown and dark skin, genital warts are often brown or darker, not the pink bumps in most textbook photos. Here is what to look for, what else it co…
Jock itch on brown and dark skin usually looks brown, gray or purple, not the red patch in most photos. Here is how to recognize it, what it gets mist…
From $0 at a Title X clinic to $489 for a self-order lab panel: what STD testing costs without insurance, what each panel actually tests for, and what…
Cold sores come from HSV-1, a virus most Black adults carry. Here is how they look on brown and dark skin, what they get confused with, and how to tre…
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