| It may happen to anybody. Very sure, you are not the | | | | found in studies that the transmission is not so |
| first person who has some itching red spots on your | | | | common.Impetigo is common bacterial infection of skin, |
| skin. Even more, you forgot when it happened first | | | | caused by staphylococcus or streptococcus bacteria. |
| time in your life.Rashes mean change in the color or | | | | The appearance is of bumps or patches all over your |
| look of your skin. Rashes are either localized to one | | | | skin. Impetigo in children looks like red sores that |
| part, or spread all over your body. The causes and | | | | become blisters, ooze and crust.Viral infections include |
| cures for rashes vary form case to case. Most often, | | | | herpes viruses. The viruses could be Herpes simplex |
| people mean red bumps on the skin as the "Rash". It | | | | or Herpes zoster. Zoster means belt-like. Herpes |
| represents many different conditions.Rashes could be | | | | zoster virus causes shingles. It also causes chickenpox |
| of different color; they may itch, be painful, be warm, | | | | in children. Viral rashes last up to a week. They are |
| feel bumpy, look dry, have crackles or blisters, swell | | | | usually symmetrical. Patients may have additional signs |
| and annoy. Doctors compare such things as the | | | | (coughing, sneezing, nausea, watery itching eyes, etc). |
| appearance, whether other signs of diseases exist, | | | | Shingles are painful blisters on skin. The virus sits quietly |
| and patient's exposure to substances, patient's | | | | in neural cells for years and flares up when your |
| occupation, and family medical history.The causes of | | | | immunity is down after another disease or cold.Children |
| rashes include:1. Allergies. Different foods soaps, | | | | also suffer chickenpox, rubella, measles, fifth disease, |
| detergents, medicines, dyes, insect bites cause allergic | | | | roseola, hand-foot-mouth disease, scarlet fever, etc. |
| rashes. A new medication may cause allergic drug | | | | They all may cause rashes.Typhus, viral or bacterial, |
| rash. Medicines, which have been prescribed for years, | | | | different types of hemorrhagic fevers and bunch of |
| rarely cause an allergic reaction. There is hardly a test | | | | other diseases also develop rashes. However, those |
| to check whether a rash is allergic. Hence, doctors | | | | diseases show rarely in developed countries.6. |
| often just advice to stop a drug and to see what | | | | Reaction to a vaccine Serious reactions to vaccines |
| happen. If the rash stays for a week without the | | | | happen rarely.7. Acne includes several types: acne |
| medication, it is doubtfully an allergy. Foods rarely | | | | (pimples, zits) range from mild to severely disfiguring. |
| cause allergies.2. Contact Dermatitis. Derma = skin, | | | | Acne Vulgaris is the most common. It includes |
| dermatitis = skin inflammation. Skin contact with an | | | | blackheads, whiteheads, papules, pustules, nodules and |
| irritant leads to the rash. Some people are sensitive to | | | | cysts. Whiteheads appear when a pore is totally |
| metals such as zinc or nickel. Example is reactions to | | | | blocked. It traps oil and, bacteria. Blackheads happen |
| jewelry made with nickel. Dyes and other chemicals in | | | | when a pore is only partially blocked. The black color is |
| clothing, chemicals in latex and rubber products, | | | | the result of the reaction between oxygen and skin |
| cosmetics, soaps, and detergents, poison ivy, oak, or | | | | pigments. Red, tender bumps are named papules. |
| sumac may cause rashes. The mechanism is direct | | | | Inflamed whitehead would form a pustule (a small |
| irritation, but may include allergic component.There is a | | | | vesicle with pus). It looks like a red circle with yellowish |
| difference between allergy and direct toxicity. | | | | center. Big, hard bumps under the skin's surface are |
| Immunologic mechanism causes allergy. It means: | | | | named nodules. Cysts look similar to nodules. They |
| Immune cells of your body produce numerous | | | | contain pus and have diameter more than five |
| immunological substances to fight infections, bugs and | | | | mm.Acne Rosacea appears as a red rash on cheeks, |
| worms. The regulation is very complex and intricate. | | | | nose, or chin mostly. Small blood vessels become |
| However, for the immune system, sometime innocent | | | | dilated on the skin. It is more characteristic for |
| things look like a dangerous intruder. For example, latex | | | | adults.Acne Conglobata presents as numerous large |
| in gloves, which is relatively safe substance, suddenly | | | | lesions on the face, chest, back, arms, and thighs. The |
| looks like a malicious worm. The immune cells start to | | | | Acne Conlgobata is a severe form requiring |
| fight this substance as if it is a bug. The immune cells | | | | aggressive treatment.Acne Fulminans represents |
| produce huge quantities of fighting chemicals, which | | | | severe nodulo-cystic acne. Scarring is common. Acne |
| normally should kill a worm. However, in this innocent | | | | Fulminans also causes fever and joints aches.8. Hives |
| situation, those substances attack own body and | | | | (urticaria) look like itchy, red wheals. Their reasons vary |
| cause the rash. The good intentions were to kill the | | | | and are not always predictible.9. Autoimmune disorders |
| non-existing bug and to prevent it's spreading all over | | | | such as dermatomyositis, lupus or rheumatoid arthritis |
| the body. Direct toxicity is just direct toxicity; no duped | | | | may produce characteristic rashes. Some rashes are |
| immune cells were involved.Why is it important to | | | | very distinguishable. Watch out butterfly rash.10. |
| distinguish? Because, the treatment and prevention of | | | | Psoriasis is a hereditary condition, which affects skin |
| these two conditions might vary.3. Seborrheic | | | | and joints. Skin is mostly affected in characteristic |
| dermatitis appears as rash with patches of red and | | | | areas near elbows and knees with appearance of |
| scaling skin. It happens often on scalp, eyebrows, | | | | silvery scales. Psoriasis often looks like red, itchy |
| mouth, nose, ears and on trunk. Seborrheic dermatitis | | | | patches over joints and along the scalp. Fingernails |
| on scalp has name dandruff. Seborrheic dermatitis on | | | | suffer too.11. Cancer or other disease may give |
| scalp in children is named cradle cap.4. Eczema | | | | several types of rashes. Obviously, skin cancers have |
| happens in people with allergies or asthma. The rash | | | | specific appearance, but other cancers may affect |
| has scaly, itchy skin patches. Atopic dermatitis is a | | | | skin too.12. Sun burns and other burns also cause rash, |
| common form of eczema. Atopic dermatitis is | | | | pain and itching13. Lead poisoning may give some |
| hereditary skin disease. Atopic diseases happen in | | | | rashes that are not so easy to suspect, unless you |
| families. They include: hay fever, asthma, and atopic | | | | know about the patient's contact with lead.14. Skin |
| dermatitis. Those all are allergic diseases. Atopic | | | | irritation, for example rubbing of clothing, will cause the |
| dermatitis commonly starts from childhood. Chapped | | | | rash at the site of rubbing.15. Some rashes may |
| cheeks and scales on the scalp, arms, legs, and trunk, | | | | happen during pregnancy.16. Pityriasis rosea produces |
| represent atopic dermatitis.Atopic dermatitis also hurts | | | | scaly patches on the chest and back.17. Xerosis |
| elbows and knees. Adults may get atopic dermatitis all | | | | means dry skin. This disease may also appear as a |
| over the body. Red skin itches, swells, cracks, weeps, | | | | rash during the cold, dry months of the year. 18. |
| crusts, and makes scales in atopic dermatitis. It is often | | | | Kawasaki disease, Henoch Shoenlein purpura, insecct |
| worse in the winter. There is no obvious reason, why | | | | bites or stings and many other medical conditions |
| atopic dermatitis starts. Sometime atopic dermatitis | | | | cause a rashes as well.In majority cases with a simple |
| does not look as an allergic reaction.5. Infections | | | | rash, good skin care and avoidance of skin irritants will |
| produce rashes often. Scaly patches are signs of | | | | improve your condition. However, a good idea is to |
| fungal or bacterial infection Fungal infections happen | | | | check with your doctor. The cause of the rash may |
| often, though less than eczema. Scaly rashes are not | | | | be a serious disease. Rash appearance, sensations, |
| always fungal "ringworm". According to some studies, | | | | type of spreading and changes of the rash over the |
| people with good hygiene, also get fungus. Fungus can | | | | time give the clues for diagnostics of certain |
| be transmitted form person to person in gyms, | | | | diseases.Aleksandr Kavokin, MD, PhD. |
| showers, pools. However, again some dermatologists | | | | |