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The skin word comes from the Latin word cutis. Skin is the soft outer cover of our body. It is the most important organ of human body. Good health depends on healthy skin. Many people don’t know the structure, properties and functions of skin. Think if we out from this cover, skin, then how we look?  

 

Skin width is 0.05 cm to 0.65 cm. the functions of skin is to protect human being from surrounding or environmental bacterial infections. Skin is also consider a sensible organs, that are in fin form and can feel touch, pain etc. it also regulates our body temperature.

 

Different forms or conditions of skin are given below:

 

Prickly heat skin condition:

 

It is also known as heat rash, is itchy and red rashes that are caused by prickling sensation of the skin. Usually people in summer suffering from it, children are mostly prone to prickly heat due to their sweat glands that are not fully developed. Further over weight people are also found in this skin condition.

 

Psoriasis skin condition:

Psoriasis is an achronic autoimmune disease that appears on body. The appearance of psoriasis is either a slow process or a sudden one. The symptom of this disease is creepy skin with red, silver white patches on skin. Mostly affected areas are ear, nails, scalp, elbows and knees, but it can appear on the whole body. The size of the spots or patches varies from smaller to larger as time past.

 

Vitiligo skin condition:

 

Vitiligo is also a skin disorder, due to the loss of melanin cells, whose function is to produce pigments cells. The symptom of  vitiligo is appearance of spots or patches in whitish color on any part of the body. The diagnosis of this disease is very easy due to the white patches. The most affected areas of body is face, mouth, hands, arms, feet’s and knees, but it can be spread on all parts of the body. The hairs are also become white due to this disease.

 

Dry skin condition:

 

Dryness of skin is another skin condition. Skin can be dry from various reasons, either skin cells become dehydrated due to the sun exposure or sun rays, including UV rays, or sue to the lacking of nutritional factors like calcium, vitamins, proteins and many others Cyprus  minerals etc.

 

Freckles on skin:

 

Freckles are the flat, brownish, blackish spots on skin. It can be caused from sun burn or in old people it is appeared due to the old aging factor. One major reason of freckles is the decreasing amount of melanin cells in our body. There are many sun creams or freckles creams are available in market that can help in recovery of these freckles.

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