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Skin
diseases are very common among the human being. There are not many statistics
to prove the exact frequency of skin disease, but general impression is 20-25
percent of patients seeking medical advice suffers from viral
skin disease. While infections are more common in the tropics, These skin
diseases are a great deal of misery, suffering, incapacity and economic loss.
Fortunately, however, due to recent advances, cutaneous scars can be successfully
removed by plastic surgery, laser therapy and skin grafting.
Many people think that skin patients are never cured and never die. Like all generalizations,
this is quite untrue. Admittedly, fungal skin
disease like ringworm are seldom disastrous; but, the cure rate
in skin diseases compares quite favorably with the cure rate in any other specialty,
and cases which cannot be cured outright are often favorably influenced by the
control of troublesome complaints. Contrary to the popular belief, only a few
bacterial skin diseases are really contagious diseases. Besides, the presence
of ubiquitous and tropical diseases, and the problems created by poverty and illiteracy,
climatic factors too create special problems in the treatment of skin diseases.
It goes a long way towards the ultimate recovery of the patient and it is a pity
that qualified doctors often lose sight of it. A mysterious approach produces
anxiety; an explanation of the disease helps to prevent this unhealthy reaction.
Our site provides you information, prevention and treatment for different
skin diseases. Studies
show that skin diseases like acne, herpes, impetigo,
prickly heat, scabies and tinea can be as
damaging to the quality of people's lives as angina, asthma, diabetes and hypertension
- often more so. However superficial its subject matter, dermatology is not merely
skin-deep. Its scope includes the whole range of life from the human mind to the
various microorganisms, vast external environments and complex endocrine and metabolic
transactions within the body. In the practice of dermatology, undue stress should
not be laid on giving diagnostic labels.
For more information about skin (Read about "Skin Care")
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