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