Category archives: SKIN

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Psoriasis

Features

Psoriasis is an inflammatory, non-contagious disease. It is primarily characterized by reddish, scaly skin changes that can itch. The chronic disease typically progresses in episodes - sometimes with more severe, milder or no skin problems at all.

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Pustules

Features

Pustules - also called pustules, pimples or whimpers - are small cavities on the surface of the skin that are filled with pus and are usually painful to the touch. They have a red color, with the tip of the blisters often colored white.

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Wheals

Features:

Wheals or nettles are small blisters, usually filled with lymph / wound water, which occur as an allergy feature or due to foreign body action (blisters from pressure sores or insect bites).

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Psoriasis

Features

Psoriasis is an inflammatory, non-contagious disease. It is primarily characterized by reddish, scaly skin changes that can itch. The chronic disease typically progresses in episodes - sometimes with more severe, milder or no skin problems at all.

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Scaly skin

Features

Scaly skin is caused by the disturbance of the so-called protective layer of the skin, which is responsible for the balance between the death of old skin cells and the formation of new ones. The causes of scaly skin can be numerous. The protective layer of the skin itself consists of moisture and a lipid film.

The technical term for scaly skin is squama or pityriasis capitis.

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Scrape

Features

An abrasion is a superficial wound in which the skin is damaged by abrasion. The skin is literally abraded. Depending on how hard and rough the surface is on which the skin is abraded, different types of abrasions can occur.

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Seborrhea oleosa

Features

Seborrhea oleosa refers to increased sebum production of the skin, i.e. an oily skin condition. It usually occurs with a cornification disorder in the area of the sebaceous gland follicles and thus leads to acne.

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Seborrhea sicca

Features

Seborrhoea sicca is characterized by a dry skin condition. Skin cells dry out prematurely, resulting in forced keratinization (scaling). The skin is drier than usual.

The development of seborrhea sicca can be caused by a dry environment, which causes the water content of the skin to evaporate prematurely, or the excessive production of the skin's own hydrolipid film.

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Sensitive skin

Features

Sensitive / sensitive skin is difficult to define by concrete symptoms. In the first place, the skin is clearly more sensitive than other skin types.

While normal skin has ideal sebum production and an intact cell membrane complex, and sebum production is increased in oily skin, several circumstances come together in sensitive skin: It usually does not have sufficient natural protection from the skin's own cell membrane complex. Furthermore, its moisture balance is irritated. It therefore reacts more irritably to external factors.

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