Essay On Integumentary System

The integumentary system is the hair, nails, skin, glands and nerves. Some of the integumentary system’s functions are to protect the body from things on the outside, It helps hold body fluid, helps prevent diseases take the waste out of your body that isn’t needed and help people with keeping their body at a certain temperature. The integumentary system also helps peoples bodies hold water in fat, so that it can protect the body from being dehydrated. Eczema has no actual confirmed cause but the most common things people seem to think it comes from are allergies, genetics, food, activities, skin barriers letting in germs and the immune system not behaving correctly. Eczema starts as small frames filled with fluid, these are called vesicles amd they sit on top of red, swollen skin.
One of the first signs or symptoms that appears for eczema is itching. When adults have eczema and they keep rubbing it itcan turn into thick plaques of skin, if you scratch the eczema it could puss up and then dry and turn into a crusty patch. You can even get cracks in your skin which is also a symptom of eczema. If you get bumps with clear fluid in them in areas on and around your fingers it could mean eczema. …show more content…
If you have bumps and they are severely itching a starting to turn into more bumps spread across the same area you may be diagnosed also. Usually if you are actually diagnosed it will come out more after you go through puberty. If you are in the heat in the winter time you may have a flare up and began to get bumps on your skin. Stressing also causes the eczema to flare up when it’s not on you at the moment. Some tests were ran and people wo repeatedly scratch usually get thick patches on their skin that look like leather and it can turn into lichen simplex