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Diseases Affecting The Skin
There are a multitude of diseases that can affect the skin including:
- Change of skin moisture: This is by far the most common condition affecting the skin. Your skin may be dry or oily depending on the climate and genetic factors, and any skin is liable to dryness if it is not well-maintained.
- Allergic conditions: The skin is exposed to the outside environment enough to be subject to a multitude of allergens. Those include substances present in nature such as food and the sun and substances which you apply on your skin such as creams and lotions. Allergies are presented differently, where it can be in the form of redness, itchiness, scaling, or even bleeding. A combination of all the previous is more common than not.
- Burns: Burns are extreme skin damage that results from exposure to heat, and to a lesser degree to cold. They result when heat damages the skin and the underlying tissue to the level of killing its cells. There are three main degrees of burns depending on the depth of damage caused by the heat. Burns can result from sun exposure, direct heat, hot fluids, electric shocks and even some chemical substances.
- Injury: Your skin is by far the most common organ to be injured. Such injuries vary widely from small daily scratches that do not even penetrate the entire skin’s thickness to severe lacerations and cuts that require medical attention.
- Ulcers: Ulcers are distinct entities that result from various causes from allergic conditions to drug interactions or even cancer. They can heal on their own or with scarring. Some do not even heal and expand, and in this case, cancer is suspected.
- Tumors: The skin can develop a large group of tumors, both benign and malignant. The most common benign tumors are naevi, which are small or large dark brown or black pigmented spots that result from the multiplication of certain pigment cells called melanocytes. Malignant tumors of the skin include basal cell carcinoma, squamous cell carcinoma and melanoma.
