Fluent Health Care

Wearing sunscreen is one of the best — and easiest — ways to protect your skin's appearance and health at any age. Used regularly, sunscreen helps prevent sunburn, skin cancer and premature aging. To help make sunscreen a part of your daily routine, dermatologist Anna Chien addresses common concerns.

Calamine is used to relieve the itching, pain, and discomfort of minor skin irritations, such as those caused by poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac. This medicine also dries oozing and weeping caused by poison ivy, poison oak, and poison sumac.

Clotrimazole and betamethasone dipropionate lotion is a medication used on the skin to treat fungal infections of the feet, groin, and body, as diagnosed by your doctor. Clotrimazole and betamethasone dipropionate lotion should be used for fungal infections that are inflamed and have symptoms of redness and/or itching.

Permethrin 1% lotion is used to treat head lice infections. It acts by destroying both the lice and their eggs. The 5% cream is used to treat scabies infections by destroying the mites which cause scabies.