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    Acne Spot Scars

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    scars from your cheeks, legs and buttocks. Acne on your body, such ass your buttocks and leg area, is simla to that, which occurs on your face. No matter the location of the outbreak, acne outbreaks occurs whenver their is an accumualtion of deak skin cells and sebbacour oil in a pore. The remaining scar that lingers after the outbreak is the end result…

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    Everyone picks at acne or a scab once in a while. When hours are spent ripping apart the protection the human anatomy is blessed with, the picking becomes a symptom of a complex disorder. Skin-picking disorder is a body-focused repetitive behaviour (BFRB) that falls in the spectrum of obsessive-compulsive disorders. The disorder was previously known as dermatillomania, which is similar to the name of its “sister disorder” trichotillomania, compulsive hair pulling. The name was changed to…

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    Skin Coloration Theory

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    Skin colour is determined by alleles that control the production of colouring pigments namely pheomelanin and eumelanin. Therefore skin coloration is a hereditary trait rather than dependent on the area where you live. Light skinned people produce mostly pheomelanin and darker skinned people produce eumelanin. The sizes of melanin particles differ among individuals and the number and size of these particles are what ultimately determines skin colour. More than 6 different genes code for this…

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    right option for you. Plastic surgery is impressive if you have heaps of money to throw away, don 't mind everybody knowing you have had some work done and are eager to risk your natural gorgeousness at the hands of a doctor who can fabulously make a human error and leave you blemished for life. If you are like most individuals, you go down the surgery bandwagon somewhere in there. Perhaps you just aren 't rich enough to have a facelift or maybe you aren 't ready for the risk a surgical facelift…

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    physical, and psychological needs. The role of the nurse to identify a need in the client and to provide adequate interventions to fill that need. The human boy is composed of several systems including cardiovascular, pulmonary, and integumentary systems that must be assessed and tended to accordingly. Because as the largest organ of the body the skins care is vital to maintain temperature, provide protection from invading organisms, and responding to sensory information, it deserves specific…

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    Disease Overview Ichthyosis is the primitive cause of dry, flaky, thick, scaly skin. There are several different kinds of Ichthyosis, the main one is Ichthyosis vulgaris as it accounts for over 90% of all Ichthyosis cases and then there is X-linked Ichthyosis, which is the least common type of Ichthyosis with there being only one in every 6,000 births in males (Panthagani). X-linked Ichthyosis was chosen as the area of interest, it is a recessive disease in which only males get the disease…

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    is the pigment that gives humans the different shades of color for their hair, skin and eyes. Melanocytes is located in the epidermis layer, which is why it is important that we have protection. Melanin is what protects our skin from the effects that one may encounter from the sun. That is why caucasians are more immune to skin cancer because they do not produce enough melanin as someone with darker skin does. Most people believe that people with dark skin cannot get skin cancer which is false.…

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    Skin Wound Healing

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    filled with a clear serum (i.e. plasma), that creates itself on the skin because of burns on the skin, friction against the skin, and many other damages. A pimple is a swollen part of the skin filled with pus that results from an oil gland being infected with bacteria. Both effects on the skin are created on epithelial tissues, along the upper layers of the epidermis, affecting the stratum corneum while making it infectious. The skin splits in the epidermis, producing a blister, while pimples…

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    Process information: Interpret and discriminate Mrs. Checketts’s paper thin skin is observed. Normal skin varies in thickness from 0.2 to 1.5 mm depending on individual’s age (Estes 2013). As the skin ages, the thickness of the dermis decreases and becomes translucent due to loss of the rete pegs (McCance & Huether 2010), Mrs.Checkett’s thin skin is therefore a normal biological process and an anticipated age related change. A small pressure injury is noticed on Mrs. Checketts’s coccyx.…

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    animal testing to a different method. Some believe testing products on animals is an expedient idea because animals are closest in similarity to humans, so we will get the optimum and most information from the reaction of the…

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