The patient is brought to the exercise laboratory where the heart rate and blood pressure are recorded at rest. Sticky electrodes are attached to the chest, shoulders and hips and connected to the EKG portion of the Stress test machine. A 12-lead EKG is recorded on paper.
Exposure to plants or chemicals can cause itchy skin at night. Although a wide variety of dermatological conditions and illnesses can cause itchy skin at night, most often the condition is due to xerosis, abnormally dry skin. Xerosis is most common in the winter, when there is little moisture in the air. The condition is not serious and can be treated with moisturizers. If itchy skin at night is chronic or accompanied by a rash, inflammation or scales, the cause may be an underlying illness and treatment should be sought from a dermatologist, a physician that specializes in diseases of the skin. Video of the Day
A) There are certain conditions that can get worse during the night with the eye in a closed state. For example, if you have blepharitis, which is caused by a common skin bacteria called âstaph epidermidis,â the waste products of the staph are very irritating. But with your eye closed that staph toxin is lying there all night. If I have a patient who wakes up with really irritated eyes, one of the first things I want to look at is untreated blepharitis. Another possible cause is called ârecurrent corneal erosion.â Think about pulling a scab off all the time. It starts to heal and you pull the scab off.