Migraines are much more than just an occasional bad headache. If you find your migraines regularly hijacking your to-do list, leaving you unable to play with your kids, get to work on time or socialize with friends at least half of the month, you may have a condition called chronic migraine.
Chronic migraine is a debilitating problem that affects up to 5 percent of the population, mostly women. Previously called "transformative migraine," chronic migraine tends to worsen over time. Headaches may start in childhood or adolescence and then gradually strike more often and cause increasingly more pain. People with chronic migraine deal with headaches on 15 or more days a month. Women are three times more likely than men to experience migraines.

The Facts on Adult Acne

What is adult acne?
Many women think of acne as something they bid farewell to with adolescence. But actually, a significant number of women over the age of 25 years experience adult acne. Because you have acne as an adult, it can be frustrating and embarrassing, but rest assured that adult acne is quite common. Adult acne can be divided into two general types: persistent and late-onset acne. Persistent acne is acne that continues from adolescence into adulthood. Patients tend to have lesions most days and may experience flare-ups before their menstrual cycles. Late-onset acne appears for the first time in adulthood and falls into two categories. Chin acne is concentrated in the mouth area and tends to flare premenstrually. Sporadic acne tends to appear and die down suddenly, with no apparent reason.
What causes adult acne?
The causes of adult acne are not entirely clear. It may be linked to the behavior of certain sex hormones, particularly those called androgens, which control excretion from the oil-producing sebaceous glands. Other possible triggers include smoking, cosmetic use, stress or taking certain medications such as those used to treat epilepsy or depression. Some women may also have a genetic predisposition to the condition.
Researchers have been able to dispel some myths about the causes of adult acne, such as lack of face washing or what you eat makes you break out. Acne is not caused by poor hygiene; in fact, washing your face too often or aggressively can irritate acne lesions. Additionally, no evidence exists to connect certain foods, such as fried foods and chocolate, to acne. Although a healthy diet is conducive to overall well-being, no foods are thought to specifically cause or exacerbate adult acne.

Essential Tips for Maintaining Healthy Skin

When is the last time you thought about your skin beyond worrying over a wrinkle or praying that a pimple would be gone before an important event? The reality is that your skin is far more than just a top layer to be washed, creamed and made up. Your skin is your body's primary defense system against disease. As such, it might be time you treated it with more respect.
Skin: the basics
Your skin is your body’s largest organ. It provides a thin, yet very effective, barrier to billions of health threats (called pathogens) found in the world that would love nothing more than to sneak past your skin's defenses and make you sick. But if you don't take care of your skin on a daily basis, it may become dry, rough and chapped, providing an opening for pathogens that could harm your health.
Skin plays other roles in your overall health, as well. It helps keep you cool or warm, insulates you, stores energy and provides sensation through touch so you can interact with the outside world beyond what you see and hear.

3 abducted Lagos School Girls back in school for classes [Photos]

Babington Macaulay Junior Seminary School in the Ikorodu area of Lagos has been in the news for unprecedented reasons after three female students were abducted by assailants demanding for N60 million on the whole for the children before being arrested by men of the Nigerian police.

The rescued girls have been re-integrated into the school system as normalcy returns to the school.

HABA! Naija which way!!! SEE picture of men refilling dispensable water bottles from a stream

What manner of wickedness is this?

Julius Agwu is serious about a new beginning. The ace comedian who said he suffered a near death experience after under going brain surgery in 2015, attended his first day of lectures at a bible school in Port Harcourt.

How we planned kidnap of 3 Lagos schoolgirls - Prime suspect

Arigidi, 37, from Ondo State, said they were 12 in number who planned the operation, but noted that one of them, Lamiameni, was the one who brought the deal, which was planned at Majidun area of Lagos.

“We are 12 in number that carried out the operation. We planned the operation in Majidun and after that, we went to Maya bridge to enter Canoe and went to the school around 8pm. After we gained entrance into the school, we took away three girls and we took them to our hideout,” he said.He added that along the line, he had misunderstanding with other members of the gang, as he insisted that the girls should be returned to where they were kidnapped due to the tight security system in Lagos State.

The Effects of Rosacea

While beauty is certainly not skin deep, society does often judge people—especially women—on their appearance. The effects of skin conditions like rosacea can significantly impact self-esteem, because, for better or for worse, our skin will always be part of our first impressions. The good news is that rosacea is manageable.
Rosacea is an inflammatory skin condition with a proven impact on lifestyle that can cause frustration, embarrassment and anxiety for those who have it. Rosacea affects an estimated 16 million Americans and 40 million people worldwide.
To help you better understand how rosacea affects the everyday lives of women, we have provided some common questions and answers about the lifestyle impacts that this chronic condition may have. The more you know, the better you can help get your condition under control.

EVIL! SEE how Cultists brutally murdered a man in Ikorodu Area of Lagos (Photos)

According to online reports, cultists on rampage hacked a man to death at Jaladugbo street, Ikorodu area in Lagos. The deceased known as Sunshine was hacked to death by some cultists who shot

The Amazing Reason Breast Milk Comes in Different Colors

Have you ever noticed how the color of your breast milk can vary? Arkansas mom Mallory Smothers noticed a difference from her pumped Friday morning breast milk versus the one from Thursday night (picture above) and shared it on Facebook. The reason her breast milk batches are different is pretty amazing, and it has the Internet pumped, with more than 70,000 shares.

You see, when a baby nurses, a vacuum is created in which the infant's saliva sneaks into the mom's nipple. If mammary gland receptors detect pathogens from the baby's spit via backwash, Mom's body will change the milk's immunological composition and produce customized antibodies.

That's why Smothers's latest batch of milk "resembles colostrum," or what many know as liquid gold—the form of milk moms make late in pregnancy and in the first few days of birth. It's filled with leukocytes and antibodies to protect newborns against disease.

"This comes after nursing the baby with a cold all night long. Pretty awesome, huh?! The human body never ceases to amaze me," Smothers writes.

Pretty incredible!