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COMMON DERMATOLOGICAL DISORDERS AND ITS CLINICAL MANIFISTATION
Allergic Contact Dermatitis
Due to contact with a substance that might be harmless to others.
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Itchiness |
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Red and swollen skin |
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Vesicular eruptions (water bubbles) |
Atopic Dermatitis
Exaggerated cutaneous response to environmental antigen (house mites)
Infantile
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Highly Pruritic |
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Red Scales |
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Crusted weeping patches on cheeks and extremities |
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Childhood
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Papulation in flexural areas |
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Adult
Stage
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Lichenification in flexural areas, forehead and periorbital
region |
(All types are Susceptible to cutaneous viral, fungal &bacterial infection)
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Acnι Vulgaris (Pimples)
The bacteria (Propionibacterium acnes, staphylococcus aureus and staph.epidermidis) found on the skin alter the increased sebum that always happens with hormonal increase in puberty.
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Black or white heads |
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Red spots |
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Deep boil like lesions |
Senile Purpura (aged person)
Thin easily disrupted skin.
Easily disrupted blood vessels.
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Skin bruises that do not indicate vitamin deficiency or bleeding disorders. |
Moniliasis/Candidias
Fungal
Infection
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Red rash with white flakes |
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Pruritis (itchiness) |
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It is found on the lip area and genitals of person with diabetes, those taking oral steroids and on long-term antibiotics |
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Females may have a genital discharge and itchiness |
Generalized Dermatophytosis (Tinea Corporis)
Fungal
Infection
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Papulosquamous disease (papules with dry skin flakes) |
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If it affects the very young, the very old or the immunocompromised patients it
will be very extensive |
Lichen Planus
Common with dry skin in old person
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Skin scales that show a lacy white pattern |
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The lesions are typically flat-topped rectangular or polygonal in shape |
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Involves the flexural areas of the wrist |
Xerosis/Asteatotic Eczema
Dry skin that flakes easily as the oil content of skin decreases with age
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Poorly demarcated, scaly round red patches with scaly fissures in irregular
netlike pattern |
Rosacea
It is provoked in some persons by emotion, alchol, exertion, warm meals or spicy food.
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Central facial erythema |
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Prominent rhinophyma (Hypertrophied nose) |
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Sometimes papular or pastular components are found |
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Most of the patients are fair skinned |
Herpes
Simplex
Viral
Blistering Disorder
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Vesicles clustered on Erythemetous and often indurated base |
Herpes Zoster
Viral
Blistering Disorder
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Band of blisters on one side of the head, body or along one limb |
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Sever pain is associated with the blisters |
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