Coverage featuring Dr. Maher Mahmoud in Egyptian media — expert commentary on skin, hair and sun protection. Each piece links to its original publisher.
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Warns against squeezing pimples or boils in the nasal-labial "Triangle of Death," explaining that retrograde venous drainage to the cavernous sinus can cause cavernous sinus thrombosis, meningitis, or brain abscess.
Profiles Dr. Maher Mahmoud as the founder of the "Cancer Without Hair Loss" (`سرطان بلا سقوط شعر`) initiative launched in January 2022 to provide free medical consultations and hair-regrowth treatments to cancer patients before, during, and after chemotherapy, noting that 12% of cancer patients (and 8% of breast cancer patients) refuse chemotherapy out of fear of baldness.
Reassures readers that bright red sesame-seed-sized skin spots are benign cherry angiomas (`الورم الوعائي الكرزي`) caused by dilated capillaries after age 30 rather than skin cancer, and can be removed cosmetically via laser, electrocautery, or cryotherapy.
Coverage of his interview on Ana Wel Tabib (Sada El-Balad 2), stating that normal daily hair shedding is up to 150 hairs for women and 100 for men, and listing 6 pathological causes: poor diet/gastric sleeve surgery, stress, anemia, hormonal imbalances, thyroid disorders, and diabetes/hypertension.
Addresses patient fear of topical corticosteroids ("cortisone phobia") versus unprescribed misuse in "magic whitening mixes," explaining safe potency tiers and treatment durations.
Sada El-Balad coverage features Dr. Maher Mahmoud discussing considerations for people with vitiligo, including stress, skin injuries, heat and chemical exposure.
Discusses promising gene therapy research using modified HSP70i protein to halt autoimmune destruction of pigment cells and restore natural skin color in vitiligo.
