Tips for Winter Skin Protection

In Bend, we love winter. If we’re not carving our way around the cone at Mt. Bachelor, we’re skate skiing or snowshoeing all around the area. But when you’re out there, don’t forget your skin. Winter can give you a mighty dose of UV radiation. People think of cold...

In You In-Cyst

Human skin seems to like to grow other things on it that aren’t skin cells. Warts, moles, skin cancers, pimples, actinic keratoses, and cysts. Cysts are noncancerous, closed pockets of tissue that can be filled with fluid, pus, or other material. They can develop as a...

Keeping Your Skin Happy and Healthy

At Deschutes, we’re all about the human body’s largest organ, the skin! We check our patients for problems such as skin cancer, address chronic conditions such as eczema, even remove irritating warts. Overall, we want to help our patients have the best skin they can,...

Give Your Eczema the Exit

In the ultra-dry climate of Bend, the last thing we need is a skin condition characterized by dryness. Enter eczema stage right. Eczema is clinically known as atopic dermatitis. It’s a chronic skin condition that is more common in children, but, for the unfortunate...