Non friction type skin blisters, aka vesicle, are largely due to a disease, a skin condition or environmental factors. For the most part, skin blisters break easily and leave a yellow crust after liquid inside dries.
Blistering is your body’s natural reaction to a foreign substance, or what your immune system perceives as such. [...]
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A blister is an area of raised skin with a watery liquid inside. There are many causes for blisters to rear-up; some preventable, others maybe not.
The most common blisters are those “darn” self-inflicted ones you get on your foot or hand. And its development usually only noticed when its too late.
Foot and [...]
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Rash Relief
Many associate a skin rash with annoying or outrageous itch. However, skin rashes are much more than just itchy skin.
A rash is any area on your skin that is irritated or swollen. Typically signaled by a color or texture change of your skin.
With a skin rash you may experience:
red
dry
burn
itchy
scaly
crusty
bumpy
blister
Sometimes a [...]
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Scleroderma is a progressive disease marked by abnormal skin, blood vessels and organ connective tissue growth. This “more common in adult females” arthritic condition causes otherwise pliable tissue to thicken, tighten and harden.
The cause of scleroderma is unknown, but your immune system seems to play a part. The two main types of scleroderma [...]
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Moles are very common growths on your skin caused by melanocytes (skin cells) flourishing in a cluster. Its not unusual to have several moles located all over your beautiful body, along with new ones occasionally cropping up.
The color of moles are typically pink, tan or brown spots, and can be flat or raised. [...]
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Keloid and hypertrophic scars look similar and have an excessive collagen formation as a cause in common, but they are different. This difference is all about boundaries. Hypertrophic stays in, whereas keloids takes collagen production uncontrollably beyond a wound’s boundary.
Hypertrophic scars are not uncommon, and symptom indication is a red, raised, and sometimes [...]
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It is only natural to shed some hair on a daily basis. Your average hair’s life span is up to about 6 years. But sometimes this natural turnover can run afoul.
As with most issues related to your body, getting to the root of it is also the first step for hair loss, aka [...]
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A scar forms when a permanent patch of skin grows over a wound in your body’s process of healing itself. Typical injuries causing scars are:
cuts
burns
sores
scrapes
surgical incisions
infections like chickenpox
skin conditions like acne
Scars will look different than the surrounding skin by appearing thicker, pinker, redder or shinier. How your scar looks, or turns out, will depends [...]
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The cause of the rash, blisters and insatiable itch from poison ivy, oak or sumac is urushiol, which is a chemical in their sap. Reactions and treatments are the same for all three poisonous plants.
Urushiol can penetrate the skin within minutes, so there’s no time to waste if you know you’ve been exposed. After your [...]
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The skin is your body’s largest organ and its care can sometimes pose a challenge.
Your skin protects your internal body from heat, sunlight, injury, and infection. In addition, it helps regulate body temperature, stores water and fat, and produces vitamin D.
There are two main layers to your skin. The outer is referred [...]
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