Dermatology

Dermatology is a branch of medicine that studies the structure of the skin and diseases that are accompanied by pathological changes in the skin, hair, nails, sebaceous and sweat glands, and also carries out diagnostics, treatment and prevention of these diseases.

A specialist who represents this field of medicine is a dermatologist.

Symptoms that require you to see a dermatologist:

• the presence of rash elements on the skin;
• itching and peeling of the skin;
• redness of the skin;
• change in color and structure of the nails;
• hair loss;
• alopecia;
• swelling skin;
• boils;
• skin ulcers;
• warts;
• changes in the number and color of moles;
• inflammatory processes;
• weeping areas of skin;
• acne;
• spider veins.

Diseases that are studied dermatology:

• dermatitis;
• actinomycosis;
• lichen;
• papilloma;
• herpes;
• eczema;
• neurodermatitis;
• urticaria;
• microsporia;
• skin cancer;
• seborrhea;
• syphilis;
• toxideremia;
• favus;
• scabies;
• erythema, etc.

Diagnostics and treatment in dermatology

• examination of the skin and mucous membranes;
• laboratory blood and urine tests;
• HIV and syphilis tests;
• detection of herpesvirus infections;
• allergy test;
• scrapings from the skin and nails to detect fungus;
• scrapings from the skin and eyelashes to detect mites (Demodex);
• PCR diagnostics;
• studies to determine liver and pancreatic lesions;
• detection of autoimmune diseases.

After conducting a comprehensive diagnosis and establishing a diagnosis, the dermatologist prescribes a treatment regimen, which is selected strictly individually for each patient and depends on the form and stage identified disease.