BBC Morning Live's Dr Punam issues warning over 'three skin conditions on rise'

Dr Punam Krishan has revealed the 3 tegument conditions connected the emergence this wintertime and shared a fig of elemental tips which tin assistance support your tegument wellness during the acold months

Dr Punam Krishan has returned to her regular spot connected BBC Morning Live aft her dazzling stint connected Strictly Come Dancing. The TV doc precocious introduced Bollywood moves to the Strictly signifier for the archetypal clip - but present she's backmost to stock her indispensable wellness tips.

The 41-year-old TV regular, who was voted disconnected the creation level successful precocious October, is present raising the alarm astir communal wintertime habits that are wreaking havoc connected our skin. The GP has noticed a spike successful cases of eczema, psoriasis, and rosacea astatine her practice, conditions exacerbated not conscionable by the chilly weather.

Dr Punam explained: "There are fluctuations successful temperature. The cardinal heating is cranked up, which further zaps the moisture from our skin. We don’t portion arsenic overmuch water, we indulge successful each the incorrect foods, and we portion a spot much intoxicant which dehydrates the skin."

She warns that these factors, combined with festive accent and the accustomed bout of wintertime bugs, could spell problems for our tegument this season. It's not conscionable those with tegument conditions that request to beryllium cautious.

Dr Punam has besides shed airy connected the communal "winter itch" phenomenon. This is wherever parts of the assemblage go incredibly itchy without showing a rash.

She told TV viewers: "Winter itch is simply a benignant of dermatitis that comes connected successful colder months. We speech astir the three-minute moisture rule. When you travel retired the ablution oregon bath, erstwhile you’re inactive damp, wrong 3 minutes is erstwhile you privation to enactment connected a bully gloopy moisturiser that truly soaks in."

The online quality assemblage has been abuzz with the "slugging" trend. This involves slapping copious amounts of ointment connected your look overnight for aggravated moisturisation. The TV doc had a connection of caution, however.

Dr Punam noted that portion this tin beryllium effectual utilizing bladed ointments similar Vaseline, there's a catch. She cautioned: "The thought is that it helps to forestall immoderate h2o from being lost, truthful you get shiny, glowy skin.

"The lone caveat is that if you’ve got acne-prone skin, congestion, oregon oily skin, you’re really going to extremity up blocking that lipid into your tegument and extremity up with breakouts." So beryllium a spot careful.

The doc concluded by offering immoderate straightforward proposal to beforehand steadfast skin, careless of your tegument benignant oregon conditions. "Moisturise astatine nighttime time.

"We’re rubbish astatine drinking h2o but teas and java does count. You tin get h2o from foods, salads, fruit, veggies too.

"If you person got tegument conditions support a diary to way what are your triggers, what makes it worse, what makes it better, take that to your GP and we tin make a authorities that works for you."

She besides stressed the value of continuing to usage sunblock, particularly successful snowy conditions wherever UV rays tin beryllium reflected onto the tegument from unexpected angles.

Furthermore, she cautioned: "Prevention is amended than cure. If you’ve got itchy, adust tegument that you’re not getting connected apical of, speech to your doctor. If your tegument gets truly cracked and you’re scratching it, you’re going to extremity up introducing infections."