Hope for HS is pleased to share exciting news! A documentary team from PBS will be doing a spot on Hidradenitis Suppurativa for the 2019 season of Medical Stories, to highlight the true impacts of living with HS and raise awareness among the general public. This is slated to air in the summer of 2019.…
Diet plays an integral part in keeping our gut microbiome in balance. Eating healthy foods with vitamins and prebiotics is essential to overall better health, but is vitally important in keeping the microbiome in functioning condition. A prebiotic is non-digestible parts of food that ferments when it reaches the large colon. That fermentation process creates…
When I arrived in Washington D.C., I thought I had a clear understanding of what I was about to do until I approached the convention center. I had already been given a heads up that the American Academy of Dermatology’s Annual Meeting was taking place in a convention center that was two city blocks in…
Microbiome: It sounds like a Mel Gibson movie or a Stephen King novel. But it isn’t fiction. It is a very real part of everyone’s daily lives. Yet few people have a clue what it means. First, a microbe is a living organism which can only be seen under a microscope. It’s a general term…
My name is Karen, I’m 56 years old and I my got first lesion when I was 15 on my groin. I’ve been dealing with this disease almost my entire life, or least it feels like it. Like many others I sought care and was misdiagnosed. Doctors would pinch, poke and cut me on their…
