Monday, June 6, 2011

Common Skin Diseases

Skin diseases are as common as one would experience headaches. Skin is the largest organ of the body that protects the internal organs from many infectious agents. It also helps regulate the body temperature and makes us look attractive. If it wasn't for the skin, juimagine st our internal organs and muscles jutting out, and we would all appear like freaks from a sci-fi movie! Anyways, skin can develop many diseases and disorders. Some of these common skin diseases are very mild and are easily treatable. Some skin disorders like skin cancer affects the patient to a grave extent.

Everybody suffers from some kind of skin condition at least once in their lifetime. Not all these skin diseases are reported to a dermatologist. This is because they do not arouse major concern for the patient and resolve with time. Some attribute it to hormonal changes, some blame it on seasonal infections. Here, we shall take a look at some of the most common skin diseases and disorders that affects infants, children, adolescents as well as adults around the world.

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