Treatments

Burn injuries

Burns are among the most common traumatic skin injuries, especially in children. The skin is the largest organ of the human body. It plays, among other things, an important role in the fluid and temperature regulation of the body; and it also acts as a first body’s defense against bacteria and viruses.

Burn is a break in the skin in which many of the affected cells die. As larger is the injured area, so lesser is the skin's ability to maintain the control of the stated reasons.

The amount of damage that a burn can cause depends upon its location, its depth, and how much of the body's surface area involves.

There are three basic classifications of skin burns based on their depth.

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, auto-immune, inflammatory condition that primarily affects the small joints of the hands, and feet. Over time symptoms influence the wrists, ankles, elbows, knees, and shoulders. In most cases, symptoms occur in the same joints on both sides of your body.

Rheumatoid arthritis occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the synovial membrane. The result of this attack is a painful swelling that can eventually destroy the cartilage and the bone. Rheumatoid arthritis can also cause joint deformation and shifting out of place.

RA can cause inflammation to other organs of the body, such as the membrane around the heart, the whites of the eye, the blood vessels, and the membranes of the lung.

Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by periods of flares and remissions. It can onset at any age. It usually begins around 40 years and is mostly a women's disease.

While rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease, patients may experience long periods without symptoms.

Rheumatoid arthritis has no cure. Treatment focuses on controlling symptoms and preventing joint damage.

PSORIASIS

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disorder, which affects men and women equally, and it appears between ages twenty and thirty-five. It is primarily an immune system disorder.

The affected area can range from a few spots of scaling to larger scaly patches of skin on the knees, elbows, arms, ears back, and scalp. The color of these patches is red to brown. Psoriasis can also affect the nails and can cause arthritis.

It is a hereditary, noncontagious disease.

Psoriasis is linked with rapid skin cell reproduction. The new skin cells onset too rapidly so the dead skin cells cannot be shed. The accumulated pileup of cells creates the characteristic silvery scales.

The appearance of psoriasis onsets the following schema: (period of) outbreak – (period of) remission.

ROSACEA

Rosacea is a common, chronic, inflammatory, life-disruptive skin disease that most often affects the forehead, the nose, the chin, and the cheeks. It begins with a tendency to redness or flushing with small bumps and sometimes pimples. It is characterized by flare-ups and remissions.

Rosacea is also known as “acne rosacea” because the inflammation looks like acne.

Rosacea is generally onset in patients between the ages of 30 and 50 years. The majority of them onsets white women. When it appears in men is more severe than in women.

Rosacea is often divided into four subtypes.

Leg ulcers are open sores that develop on deteriorated areas of the skin. They refer to full-thickness skin loss on the leg or foot due to causes such as poor circulation, bacterial infection, or varicose veins. Ulcers may be provoked by pressure or injury on the calf or the foot.

Leg ulcers may be acute or chronic. Acute ulcers are defined as those that the injuries follow the normal phases of healing in 2-3 weeks. Chronic ulcers are those that the injuries, due to an underlying problem, do not heal, and the affected area increases in size. They need more than 3 weeks to heal.

Leg ulcers are more common in women and in the elderly.

Menopause is the cessation of menstruation in women. In other words, menopause is the point in a woman's life at which the formation of the ovaries ceases and she can no longer become pregnant.

Menopause appears between the ages of 45 and 55 years but sometimes it can occur earlier around 40 years. Most women reach menopause at the age of 51. After twelve months of menstrual period absence, we can say that a woman has menopause.

The time before menopause is referred to as perimenopause, and the time after menopause is referred to as postmenopause.

Perimenopause is often accompanied by irregularities in the menstrual cycle. It may begin up to 10 years before the last menstrual period and can onset the typical symptoms of early menopause.

Menopause is not a disease, it is a natural situation in every woman’s life.

PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME (PMS)

Premenstrual syndrome is a disease that affects 30-40% of women about ten days before the start of menstruation.

The symptoms include physical and psychological factors