Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Skin Diseases

Skin diseases can cause by many source, the sign that seen on the skin can just a reflection from other causes. Such as dengue fever disease, will arise in red speck on the skin.

The skin itself available in the surface of all the body. So the skin diseases related condition of affecting the human can cover the entire surface of the body and is composed of skin, hair, nails, muscle, and glands. The major function of this system is to act as a barrier against the external environment. The skin itself weighs an average of four kilograms, covers an area of two square meters, and is made of three distinct layers the epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue. There are two main types of human skin glabrous skin, the non-hairy skin on the palms and soles (also referred to as the "palmoplantar" surfaces), and hair-bearing skin.Within the latter type, there are hairs in structures called pilosebaceous units – each with a hair follicle and sebaceous gland – each with an associated arrector pili muscle. In the embryo, the epidermis, hair, and glands form from the ectoderm, which is chemically influenced by the underlying mesoderm that forms the dermis and subcutaneous tissues.

Skin diseases can only as sign of other illness and can also as skin diseases. But the changes of almost of all kind of diseases will merge on the skin, so people usually familiar to this ubnormal condition. If the symptom just show in short time, usually this is a sign of other diseases, but if show for long time, usually this is a skin diseases that can cause by many reasons.

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