Shingles are also called zoster herpes - a viral infection, which is accompanied by severe pain and skin rashes. The disease provokes the herpes virus (herpes zoster), it acts as the causative agent of chickenpox, which in medical circles is called "chicken pox". Appearances of shingles occur, as a rule, in winter and autumn, and more often, in older people. This time and age are due to a simple fact - the state of immunity, which is lower in these seasons, and weakened in the elderly due to...
Pyoderma is an infectious dermatological disease requiring long-term treatment (depending on the depth of skin lesion). If there is no therapeutic effect on the foci of the disease, the pathology is able to pass into the chronic stage of development, fraught with disability. Often the causative agents of the disease are streptococci or staphylococci. But more often the latter become the cause of the development of pyoderma. But the habitat of streptococci are, in the main, mucous membranes. ...
Quincke edema is predominantly an allergic reaction of the body to the action of various chemical and biological factors. For the first time this condition was described in 1882 by the German doctor Heinrich Quinck, on whose behalf the name of this disease occurs. Quincke's edema is also commonly referred to as angioedema, giant urticaria. Symptoms of Quincke's edema can occur in any person, but the highest risk of developing this condition exists in patients who have allergies. Most often t...
The ingrown nail is a fairly common problem for many people. It is a disease in which the fingernail does not grow into the skin of the finger. In medicine, this disease is called "onychrictosis". This is a very unpleasant phenomenon, first, because of severe pain, and secondly, because of a completely unesthetic appearance. Growth of the nail more often occurs on the big toe, although there are cases with the rest of the nails, but very rarely. The ingrown toenail on the arm can be found ev...
Sunworm is a chronic infectious pathology of the skin, characterized by the appearance of foci of hyperpigmentation and peeling on its sites. This disease affects mostly young people (often under the age of 30), regardless of gender. Sunshine has many different names - sun fungus, beach sickness. All of them say that the disease develops in the hot season, under the influence of ultraviolet rays. Causes Why there is a sunshine, and what is it? It is practically impossible to get infected wit...
Under the lishy means skin diseases, the main element of which are nodular formations that cause itching, inflammation or necrosis of tissues.There are several varieties of lichen in humans, as well as a number of reasons why it can occur on the body. Below we will consider what can cause maculae on the body similar to lichen, which itch, or vice versa, do not cause concern. A photo of the alleged diseases will help us in this. It can be hemorrhagic and hyperemic spots, chronic infectious di...
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