Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory multisystem disease characterized skin rash of sharply demarcated (distinct border) red (erythematous) plaques with whitish scale, and joint involvement.
If you are concerned about your child not seeing well, it is time to figure out what and when you should do to reassure yourself (or a concerned grandma). First of all, talk to your pediatrician. While they are not eye doctors, pediatric doctors know enough about vision and eyes to do the initial check.
Farsightedness is an eye vision condition meaning a person can see better in a far, and has low vision near. Hyperopia is a professional medical term for farsightedness, and means a refractive error is interfering with visual acuity.
Athlete’s Foot (Tinea Pedis) is a common fungal infection that occurs on the foot. Tinea infections are caused by dermatophytes and are classified by the involved skin location. It is also known as a foot rot. The most common infections in prepubertal children are tinea corporis and tinea capitis, whereas adolescents and adults are more likely to develop tinea cruris, tinea pedis, and tinea unguium (onychomycosis).
Hives is the common name for the urticaria – an itchy rash that migrates. Hives is not specific for any particular disease, and can be a symptom of a hidden health condition. This type of rash can look differently, from single mosquito-bite type of single lesions popping up on any part of the body to large areas of puffiness and redness.
Rosacea is a name of the face inflammatory condition, which is usually chronic with good and bad periods. While the location of the redness and rash is the same for everyone, the character of the skin inflammation can vary significantly from person to person, and also can change for the same person overtime.
Contact dermatitis is a reaction that happens after your skin comes in contact with certain substances.
Skin irritants cause most contact dermatitis reactions. Other cases are caused by allergens, which trigger an allergic response. The reaction may not start until 24 to 48 hours after exposure. Contact dermatitis, caused by an irritant that is not an allergic response, happens from direct contact with the irritant.
Acne is the inflammation of the skin pore that is commonly called a pimple, or a zit. It happens when the skin gland that releases fat/oil to moisturize the skin gets blocked. As a result, inflammation may start with or without bacteria, or a black head develops. The most common time to see acne is puberty. During this time, it is mostly a hormonal issue, when the quality of the fatty secretions of the skin change. As a result, thicker fatty secretions get stuck in the gland, and may get infected.
Coronavirus disease is a general term describing symptoms caused by infection from a virus belonging to a large family of viruses called Coronaviridae. The viruses belonging to this family are identified by a corona-like microscopic view formed by the spike proteins on the surface of the virus. That is why it has the name “corona” derived from the Latin word for crown.
Croup syndrome — a term uniting a group of infections of larynx (voice box) whose common feature is the obstruction of the central airways (stridor). Stridor is one of the key symptoms of laryngeal obstruction. This term refers to the harsh, often high-tone sound created by the rapid, turbulent flow of air through the narrowed large airways.
Mastoiditis is the inflammation of a portion of the temporal bone. This bone is located right behind the ear. It contains tiny cavities called mastoid air cells which are connected with the middle ear cavity. Normally, the air cells and middle air contain only moisturizing fluid produced by epithelial cells. But if there is an infection of the ear, the bacteria may crawl into the air cells and start mastoiditis. In rare cases the infection starts in the air cells without causing ear infection.
Swollen or large tonsils is called tonsillar hyperthrophy in medicine. This condition is extremely common. It is caused by an inflammation when tonsils grow in size due to immune cells multiplying. Tonsil is a gland that is similar to a lymph node, only it sits in the throat (and is not hidden under the skin like other lymph nodes).
Swimmer’s ear is a common name for a medical condition of the ear canal – otitis externa (OE). The reason this type of ear disease got this name is because many people who swim often develop it. Swimmer’s ear is an inflammation, that can be either infectious or non-infectious, of the external auditory canal. In some cases, inflammation can extend to the outer ear, such as the pinna or tragus.
Strep throat is a common name of a pharyngitis caused by the bacteria Streptococcus. Honestly, I do not know even one person who did not have it at least once in a lifetime. That is how frequent it is.
Here is some statistics. Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is the most common bacterial etiology for acute pharyngitis and accounts for 5 to 15% of all adult cases and 20 to 30% of all pediatric visits to the clinic. It is rare to be hospitalized with Strep throat.
Scarlet fever is an infection caused by toxin producing strains of Streptococcus pyogenes (also known as group A streptococcus, or GAS). It was associated with high levels of deaths and complications when epidemics were common in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and the USA.
Scarlet fever or ‘scarlatina’ is the name given to a disease caused by an infective Group A Streptococcal (GAS) bacteria. For many years, scarlet fever was very rare. But, once of a sudden, there has been a recent increase in the number of cases worldwide.