Posts Tagged ‘thyroid’

More Latisse Follow up from Dr. Schlessinger – Next up: Your Thyroid

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

When discussing your lashes, how to grow them and some possible reasons for loss in fullness and length, we cannot ignore the possibility (and hopefully eliminating) the fact that a patient may have a condition that could be a contributing factor. Enter your Thyroid, a small, hormone-secreting gland located in the lower part of your…  read more

 

Graves’ Disease: The Ocular Battle of the Bulge

Monday, January 12th, 2009

January is National Thyroid Awareness Month. I wanted to share some information Graves’ Disease, an illness that affects millions of Americans including Oprah Winfrey and Kim Cattrall. Graves’ Disease is an auto-immune disease where your body produces antibodies that “attack” the thyroid gland. In many cases it causes the thyroid to produce too much thyroid…  read more