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Dr Ferreira Medical Aesthetics

General practitioner for children and adults. Special interest in skin care and aesthetics.

01/09/2025

🌸✨ Spring is here — a season of fresh beginnings, growth, and new life all around us. 🌱☀️

🌸 This spring marks a new season of growth for our practice as we welcome two new doctors, dr Monette van Schalkwyk and dr Sané Jordaan, to our team. With their expertise and dedication, we look forward to expanding our care and continuing to provide you with the best in health and wellness. 🌱✨

12/08/2025

🩺 Why Pap Smears Are So Important for Women’s Health

A Pap smear is a simple, quick test that can save lives. It checks for changes in the cells of the cervix that could lead to cervical cancer. Detecting these changes early means they can often be treated before they become dangerous.

✅ Early Detection Saves Lives – Cervical cancer is highly treatable when caught early.
✅ Often No Symptoms Early On – You can feel perfectly fine and still have abnormal cells.
✅ Quick & Low Discomfort – The test takes only a few minutes but protects you for years.
✅ Recommended – Most women aged 21–65 should have regular Pap smears as advised by their healthcare provider.

💡 Tip: Even if you’ve had the HPV vaccine, you still need Pap smears — the vaccine doesn’t protect against all cancer-causing strains.

Your health is worth it. Book your Pap smear today.
👩‍⚕️ Protect your future self.

30/07/2025

🧴☀️ Protect Your Skin, Protect Your Health ☀️🧴

Did you know that over 80% of skin ageing is caused by the sun? ☀️
UV rays don’t just cause sunburn—they damage your skin even on cloudy days or through windows!

Here’s why daily sun protection matters:
✨ Prevents premature aging (wrinkles, fine lines, sun spots)
✨ Reduces risk of skin cancers, including melanoma
✨ Protects skin tone & prevents pigmentation
✨ Maintains skin health all year round

🔆 Use a broad-spectrum SPF 30+ daily
🧢 Wear a hat & sunglasses
🌳 Seek shade between 10am-4pm
🧴 Reapply sunscreen every 2 hours

Your skin is with you for life—treat it with care! 💛

23/07/2025

🧴🧠 How to Spot a Worrisome Skin Lesion: Know Your ABCDEs of Melanoma! 🩺☀️

Early detection of melanoma can save lives. If you notice a new mole or changes in an existing one, use the ABCDE rule to assess whether it may be suspicious:

🔍 A – Asymmetry
One half of the mole doesn’t match the other half. Benign moles are usually symmetrical.

🔍 B – Border
Look for uneven, scalloped, or blurred edges. Melanomas often have irregular borders.

🔍 C – Colour
Multiple colours (brown, black, red, white, or blue) in one mole can be a red flag. Uniform colour is usually safer.

🔍 D – Diameter
Moles larger than 6mm (about the size of a pencil eraser) should be checked—even smaller ones can be melanoma.

🔍 E – Evolving
Any change in size, shape, colour, or symptoms like itching or bleeding should be evaluated promptly.

📆 When in doubt, get it checked out!
At Dr Suzanne Ferreira Medical and Aesthetics, we offer thorough skin checks to help keep you safe. Early diagnosis is key!

✨ Book your skin assessment today. Your skin deserves expert care.

22/07/2025

🧴 Worried about a mole, spot, or patch on your skin? Don’t ignore it.
Early detection can save lives.

🔬 At Dr Suzanne Ferreira Medical and Aesthetics, we are GPs with a special interest in Dermatology. We offer professional skin examinations to check for:
✔️ Unusual moles or lesions
✔️ Changes in existing spots
✔️ Signs of skin cancer
✔️ Sun damage or precancerous changes

We can also assist with treatment of skin lesions, including excision of moles, punch biopsies, cryotherapy (freezing) and plasma pen treatments. If needed, we can also assist with referral to a dermatologist.

⏳ A quick check today can prevent serious problems tomorrow.
Book your skin check with us and gain peace of mind.

📍 Somerset West | 📞 Call or DM to book

20/07/2025

🩺 Your Health, Your Priority! 🌿
Have you booked your annual medical check-up yet?

Regular check-ups aren’t just for when you’re feeling unwell—they help detect problems before they start. From blood pressure to blood tests, a simple check-in each year can make a big difference.

✅ Early detection
✅ Preventative care
✅ Peace of mind

✨ Let us help you stay healthy, happy, and informed.

📅 Book your appointment today

29/01/2025

Lovely morning spent with the students of Helderberg School of Beauty

23/12/2024

As another year comes to an end, we would like to thank our patients for your support in 2024. We hope you have a blessed Christmas time with your loved ones and that 2025 will be a year filled with love, hope and joy. Our offices are now closed, but we will be back on 6 January 2025.

07/12/2024

More about Professor Claudia Gray - Paediatrician and Specialist Allergologist.

MBChB (UCT , summa cm laude); FRCPCH (London); MSc (Clin Pharm) (Univ Surrey, with distinction); Diploma Paed Nutrition (London ), Diploma in Allergy (Southampton) , PhD (Paediatric allergy), FAAAAI

Claudia Gray is a paediatrician with subspecialist accreditation in allergology. She undertook her medical degree at the University of Cape Town, then went on to specialize in paediatrics, paediatric allergy and paediatric clinical pharmacology in London. She returned from the United Kingdom to settle in Cape Town with her family in 2009, when she undertook a PhD looking into eczema and food allergy. This unique combination of training and experience allows Claudia to offer comprehensive management of a wide range of paediatric and allergic disorders.
Claudia maintains her academic ties as a part time allergy consultant at Red Cross Children’s Hospital, and an Associate Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Cape Town.
Claudia has over 100 publications in the fields of allergy and pharmacology in local as well as high-impact international journals, and presents regularly at local as well as international conferences. She is on the editorial team of the journal “Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology” and a proud co-editor of the new 2024 ALLSA allergy text book.
Claudia has a deep passion for empathetically diagnosing and managing patients, and absolutely loves dealing with children of all ages!
When not working or researching or editing, she enjoys partaking in a variety of sports, writing children’s stories and spending plenty of “Mama time” with her 4 wonderful children.

Contact Info:

SPRIG Wellness Centre, 43 Panorama Dr, The Links, Somerset West (practicing twice a week from the rooms of Dr Suzanne Ferreira)

BOOKINGS: 021 300 1313 (Sprig Wellness Centre)

Website and Online Bookings : www.drclaudiagray.com
OR copy and paste online booking link:

https://prof-claudia-gray.au4.cliniko.com/bookings

15/07/2024

At our practice doctor Suzanne Ferreira and doctor Carlaine de Jager strive to provide quality health care to the whole family. We provide a full range of GP services. Call us on 021 300 1313 or visit www.drsuzanne.co.za to book an appointment.

21/05/2024

🦠 Flu season is in full swing. Here are some basic tips by dr Carlaine de Jager for managing colds and flus at home. 🦠

💊 BASIC OVER THE COUNTER MEDICATION:

🤒 Early symptoms:
• N-acetyl cysteine: An anti-oxidant to decrease oxidative stress and support your immune system.
• Echinacea throat spray: Antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antibacterial and analgesic action.
• Boost your immune system with zinc (100mg daily), Vitamin C (1000mg daily) and echinacea.

🤧 Already sick?
Treating your symptoms:
* Sinus symptoms and congestion: Saline nasal rinse/ decongestant nasal sprays for maximum 5 days/nasal spray containing corticosteroids/anti-histamines.
* Sore throat: lozenges/throat spray/gargle.
* cough: cough syrup, mucolytic if phlegm.
* body ache/fever: paracetamol or ibuprofen containing medication.
* REST - give your immune system a chance to fight!

👩🏼‍⚕️ When to see your doctor? 👩🏼‍⚕️
● High risk patients: diabetics/elderly>65yr/babies/pregnant/ immune suppressed/asthmatic/heart disease/chronic liver or kidney disease.
● Within the first 2 days of becoming sick (Anti-viral medication needs to be started within 48 hours of symptom onset to be effective).
● Any difficult breathing/ shortness of breath.
● Possible signs of a bacterial infection:
📅 symptoms not improving after 7 days.
🥵 persistent fever.
👂 severe ear pain.
🫁 symptoms such as shortness of breath and a fever that returns after two or three days of not having a fever.
🤷🏼‍♀️ when you are unsure.

👉Good to know:
* When prescribed a antibiotic always use a preventative probiotic (Take it 1 hour before your antibiotic or 2 hours after).
* Do not exercise when you have any systematic signs like fever, tachycardia, coughing.

(Disclaimer: The post is for informational purposes only and does not intend to substitute professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.)

Address

Sprig Wellness Centre, 43 Panorama Drive
Somerset West
7130

Opening Hours

Monday	08:00 - 12:30
Tuesday	08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday	08:00 - 17:00
Thursday	08:00 - 17:00
Friday	08:00 - 17:00
Saturday	08:00 - 13:00

Website

http://www.drsuzanne.co.za/

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