The term, “Ichthyosis”, is a skin disorder generally causing dry, scaly skin. It is affecting around 1 in 250 people and is typically an autosomal dominant inherited disease; although, a rare non-heritable version called “acquired ichthyosis” exists to this day in modern age. The condition is not life-threatening, however, the impact on the patient, if it is a mild case, is commonly regulated to mild itching and the social impression of having skin with an unusual appearance will affect those surrounding
If having dry skin isn’t bad enough, witnessing it in front of you get into clumps and morphing into a patch of dry skin most be the worst. Ichtyosis Vulgaris (or also called fish scale disease) is a skin disorder that is passed down the family line that leads to dry, scaly skin. Ichtyosis Vulgaris is one type of skin disorder that is very common. You are born with this skin disease which it is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. This type of skin disease is not life threating at all but
Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience. After nine long months, the moment when you see your baby for the first time is pure unadulterated joy and satisfaction. Unfortunately, for some this joyful moment turns into a nightmare very quickly. Today, we present to you 10 rare birth diseases that will leave you speechless. #10 Congenital Arhinia Congenital Arhinia is a very rare condition that has only occured 43 times in the world since it was first recorded in 1931. A person with Arhinia is born
Although I have had the goal of becoming a dermatologist in my head and heart since overcoming mental health issues caused by my skin condition, coming to consciousness as a Black man with a Black president and the Black Lives Matter movement pushes me to imagine new ways to combine healthcare with social activism. The Baltimore Health Immersion program’s learning aims speak to a style of health care that very intentionally looks at the patient as an individual and product of their conditions. I
general tendency to get sick, I only felt more burdensome to my parents already working long hours to support a family 5 or 6. However, despite my parents’ inability to understand, they were more than willing to support me in anything I needed. Ichthyosis vulgaris is a disease that never caused me physical pain, so my parents never saw what it was doing to me. So, despite this unspoken support I felt unloved. This may have been the result of various TV shows displaying different family dynamics and
Scientific misconduct is an act which intentionally compromises the honesty of scientific research, such as plagiarism or the falsification or untruth of data. Scientific misconduct may also be defined as the violation of the typical codes of scholarly ways and ethical behavior in professional scientific study. Scientific misconduct is currently widely documented as a genuine and significant problem for contemporary science, but too often the participants in the research system and those external
Abstract Sex selection is any practice, technique or intervention aimed towards increasing the probability of producing a child of one sex rather than the other. The desire of parents to choose the gender of their child has a long history in cultures dating back to Ancient Egyptians and Early Greeks. The earlier believed that women with certain facial complexion are more likely to give birth to boys, and the latter believed that the sperms in the right testicle are responsible for giving birth to