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Dyshidrosis is a type of dermatitis, characterized by itchy vesicles of 1–2 mm in size, on the palms of the hands, sides of fingers, or bottoms of the feet. [ 8 ] Outbreaks usually conclude within three to four weeks, but often recur. [ 4 ][ 8 ] Repeated attacks may result in fissures and skin thickening. [ 7 ]
176,000 (2015) [ 8 ] A burn is an injury to skin, or other tissues, caused by heat, cold, electricity, chemicals, friction, or ionizing radiation (such as sunburn, caused by ultraviolet radiation). [ 5 ][ 9 ] Most burns are due to heat from hot liquids (called scalding), solids, or fire. [ 10 ] Burns occur mainly in the home or the workplace.
Aerosol burn. An aerosol frostbite of the skin is an injury to the body caused by the pressurized gas within an aerosol spray cooling quickly, with the sudden drop in temperature sufficient to cause frostbite to the applied area. [1] Medical studies have noted an increase of this practice, known as "frosting", in pediatric and teenage patients ...
A blister is a small pocket of body fluid (lymph, serum, plasma, blood, or pus) within the upper layers of the skin, usually caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid, either serum or plasma. [ 1 ] However, blisters can be filled with blood (known as ...
Merbromin (marketed as Mercurochrome, Merbromine, Mercurocol, Sodium mercurescein, Asceptichrome, Supercrome, Brocasept and Cinfacromin) is an organomercuric disodium salt compound used as a topical antiseptic for minor cuts and scrapes and as a biological dye. Readily available in most countries, it is no longer sold in Switzerland, Brazil ...
Frostbite is a skin injury that occurs when someone is exposed to extremely low temperatures, causing the freezing of the skin or other tissues, [ 1 ] commonly affecting the fingers, toes, nose, ears, cheeks and chin areas. [ 6 ] Most often, frostbite occurs in the hands and feet. [ 7 ][ 8 ] The initial symptoms are typically a feeling of cold ...
A thermal burn is a type of burn resulting from making contact with heated objects, such as boiling water, steam, hot cooking oil, fire, and hot objects. Scalds are the most common type of thermal burn suffered by children, but for adults thermal burns are most commonly caused by fire. [2] Burns are generally classified from first degree up to ...
Wearing rubber gloves when preparing or handling chili peppers, especially for superhot chilis. Hunan hand syndrome (also known as "chili burn" [ 1 ]) is a temporary, but very painful, cutaneous condition that commonly afflicts those who handle, prepare, or cook with fresh or roasted chili peppers. [ 1 ] It was first described in an eponymous ...