Common Skin Diseases Prepared By RASHIDUL HASAN ROBEL B. PHARM (RU), M. PHARM (RU) REG. NO. A4968 PGD-HRM (BIM) EMBA (ULAB)

1. COMMON
SKIN
DISEASES
PREPARED BY
RASHIDUL HASAN ROBEL
B. PHARM (RU), M. PHARM (RU)
REG. NO. A4968
PGD-HRM (BIM)
EMBA (ULAB)

2. ATOPIC DERMATITIS
 Meaning: Inflammation of skin due to unknown
cause. Reddish & itchy skin. Mostly genetic disorder.
 Cause: Mostly genetic
 Symptoms: Reddish & itchy skin.

3. ATOPIC DERMATITIS

4. CONTACT DERMATITIS
 Meaning: Inflammation of skin due to contact
with allergen. Reddish & itchy skin.
 Cause: Contact with allergen.
 Symptoms: Reddish & itchy skin.

5. CONTACT DERMATITIS

6. URTICARIA
(HIVES)
 Meaning: Red itchy bumps on skin due to
allergic reaction.
 Cause: Allergic Reaction, aspirin or
penicillin; foods like eggs, nuts, and
shellfish; food additives; temperature
extremes; and infections like strep throat
 Symptoms: looks like welts, often itchy,
stinging, or burning or difficulty
breathing.

7. URTICARIA
(HIVES)

8. BOIL
 Meaning: Painful infection that forms around a
hair follicle and contains pus.
 Cause: Bacterial infection
 Symptoms: Swelling due to pus with
pain.

9. BOIL

10. FOLLICULITIS
 Meaning: Inflammation of hair follicle.
 Cause: Bacterial infection
 Symptoms: Itching & swelling on hair
follicle.

11. FOLLICULITIS

12. CELLULITIS
 Meaning: Inflammation of hypodermis.
 Cause: Bacterial infection
 Symptoms: Red & swollen area

13. CELLULITIS

14. PSORIASIS
 Meaning: Psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune
condition that causes the rapid buildup of skin cells.
The extra skin cells form scales and red patches that
are itchy and sometimes painful. It often comes and
goes.
 Cause: unknown, but skin inflammation
may be triggering new skin cells to
develop too quickly
 Symptoms: rash of thick red plaques
covered with silvery scales appears on
elbow, knee, scalp, lower back etc.

15. PSORIASIS

16. ACNE
(ACNE VULGARIS)
 Meaning: Acne, also known as acne vulgaris, is a long-term
skin disease that occurs when dead skin cells and oil from the
skin clog hair follicles. Typical features of the condition include
blackheads or whiteheads & pimples.
 Cause: Bacterial infection & hormonal
changes.
 Symptoms: circumscribed, solid elevation of
skin can be either brown, purple, pink or red
color.

17. ACNE
(ACNE VULGARIS)

18. VITILIGO
Meaning: Dis-coloration of skin due to loss of melanocyte
(pigmented skin cell).
Cause:
 When no melanin is produced, the involved patch of skin
becomes white.
 When a white patch grows or spreads the cause may be vitiligo.
 Exact cause is unknown.
 May be due to an immune disorder, heredity, or environmental
causes like sunburn or emotional distress that trigger the

19. Symptoms:
 White patches of skin
 Whitening or graying of the hair on your scalp, eyelashes,
eyebrows or beard
 Loss of color in the tissues that line the inside of your mouth
 Loss or change in color of the inner layer of your eye

20. ECZEMA
 Meaning: Skin becomes rough due to
inflammation. Blisters can cause itching & bleeding.
 Cause: unknown; stress, irritants (like
soaps), allergens, and climate trigger
flare-ups
 Symptoms: skin is inflamed, red, dry,
and itchy

21. ECZEMA

22. SCABIES
 Meaning: Skin infestation caused by a mite known as the
Sarcoptes scabiei.
 Cause:
 Mites under skin
 Contact may be quite brief such as holding hands
with an infested child.
 Sometimes sexually transmitted.
 Occasionally acquired via bedding or furnishings.
 Symptoms: Itching (mostly at night), burrows, rash

23. SCABIES

24. TINEA PEDIS
(ATHLETS FOOT)
 Meaning: Fungal infection between toes.
 Cause: fungal infection that commonly occurs
in people whose feet have become very
while confined within tight fitting shoes.
 Symptoms:
 whitening between toes with bad smell.
 Small to medium-sized blisters &
 scale covering the sole and sides of the feet

25. TINEA PEDIS
(ATHLETS FOOT)

26. ONYCHOMYCOSIS
(TENIA UNGUIUM)
 Meaning: Fungal infection of nails.
Cause: Fungal infection
Symptoms: Nails look white and
opaque, thickened, and brittle

27. ONYCHOMYCOSIS
(TENIA UNGUIUM)

28. TINEA CRURIS
(JOCK ITCH)
 Meaning: Fungal infection in groin region.
 Cause: mostly occurs in men because
moisture can get trapped between the
scrotum and thigh. It develops most
frequently in warm weather or when
wearing wet and tight clothing.
 Symptoms: redness, chronic itching,
burning sensation, cracking skin, change in
skin color.

29. TINEA CRURIS
(JOCK ITCH)

30. TINEA CORPORIS
(RINGWORM)
 Meaning: Ring like fungal infection mostly on
arms & legs.
 Cause: Fungal infection skin-to-skin
contact, sharing items like towels.
 Symptoms: itchy ring shaped area
mostly in arms, legs, buttocks etc.

31. TINEA CORPORIS
(RINGWORM)

32. TINEA VERSICOLOR
(PITYRIASIS VERSICOLOR)
 Meaning: Fungal infection of the skin, in which flaky discolored
patches appear on the chest and back.
 Cause: fungal infection, hot & humid weather,
excessive sweating, oily skin & hormonal disorder.
 Symptoms:
 skin discoloration, usually on the back, chest, neck
upper arms, which may appear lighter or darker than
usual.
 mild itching.
 prone to disappear in cooler, less humid weather.

33. TINEA VERSICOLOR
(PITYRIASIS VERSICOLOR)

34. SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS
 Meaning: Chronic fungal infection of the skin, mostly in
face & scalp.
 Cause: fungus living off dead skin, hair,
and nail tissue
 Symptoms: red, scaly patch or bump,
it develops into itchy red ring(s) with
raised, blistery, or scaly borders

35. SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS

36. COLD SORES
(FEVER BLISTERS)
 Meaning: An inflamed blister in or near the mouth,
caused by infection with the herpes simplex virus.
 Cause: Herpes simplex virus fever, too much
sun, stress, or menstruation.
 Symptoms: Small, painful, fluid-filled blisters
on the mouth or nose.

37. COLD SORES
(FEVER BLISTERS)

38. WARTS
 Meaning: Warts are typically small, rough, hard
growths that are similar in color to the rest of the
 Cause: Human papillomavirus
 Symptoms: Small, rough & hard typically on
hands and feet but often other locations, that
can resemble a cauliflower or a solid blister.

39. WARTS

40. MELASMA
(PREGNANCY MASK)
 Meaning: A dark pigmentation of the skin due to
overproduction of melanin by the pigment cells,
melanocytes.
 Cause: Pregnancy, hormonal change & even
men can also develop
 Symptoms: Tan or brown patches on the
cheeks, nose, forehead, and chin

41. MELASMA
(PREGNANCY MASK)

42. CHICKENPOX
(VARICELLA)
 Meaning: Highly infectious disease causing a mild
fever and a rash of itchy inflamed pimples which turn
to blisters and then loose scabs.
 Cause: Primary infection with varicella zoster
virus (VZV)- one of eight herpes viruses
 Symptoms: Itchy rash and red spots or
blisters mainly affects children.

43. CHICKENPOX
(VARICELLA)

44. HEAT RASH
(PRICKLY HEAT)
 Meaning: Heat rash is an irritation of the skin that results from
excessive sweating during hot and humid weather due to
blockade of sweat gland. It is more likely to occur on the neck
and upper chest, in the groin, under the breasts, and in elbow
creases.
 Cause: blocked sweat ducts, dress baby too warmly
 Symptoms: rash resembling small red or pink
pimples.

45. HEAT RASH
(PRICKLY HEAT)

46. HAIR LOSS
 Meaning: Hair loss, also known as alopecia or baldness, refers to
a loss of hair from the head or body.
 Cause: Hair loss have many causes
including androgenic alopecia, fungal infection, trauma,
radiotherapy, chemotherapy, nutritional deficiencies
(e.g., iron deficiency), and autoimmune diseases
(e.g.,alopecia areata).
 Symptoms: Symptoms of hair loss include hair loss in
patches usually in circular patterns, dandruff, skin
and scarring. Alopecia areata (mild - medium level)
usually shows in unusual hair loss areas e.g. eyebrows,
backside of the head or above the ears where usually
male pattern baldness does not affect.

47. HAIR LOSS