7 Most Bizarre Skin Condition
There are many diseases which are unknown and some of them are so rareand bizarre. So check out the collection of 7 most bizarre skin conditions of persons suffering for these .. check them out
1. Argyria: Blue Skin, a real-life Smurf
condition caused by the ingestion of silver, the Argyria’s most dramatic symptom is that the skin becomes blue or bluish-grey colored.
On 2008, ABC reporters interviewed Paul Karason, 40 year-old who’s skin turned blue after he used colloidal silver to ease his ailments. It started a decade ago, when he saw an ad in a new-age magazine promising health and rejuvenation through colloidal silver.
Karason sent away for a kit for ly: Georgia,Arial,Verdana; text-decoration: underline;”>making colloidal silver — a home brew of microscopic silver particles suspended in water. For a while, he was drinking at least 10 ounces a day as a cure for arthritis.
“I had arthritis in my shoulders so bad I couldn’t pull a T-shirt off. And the next thing I knew, it was just gone.” he explained the media, but these claims have no basis in science and after a couple of months, his whole skin turned blue. “I kind of hoped it would fade off!” But it didn’t fade off. Argyria is permanent.
2. Human Pappiloma Virus: meet the Tree Man
After a severe Human Pappiloma Virus (HPV) infection, Dede Koswara, a 35-year-old Indonesian fisherman, was dubbed the “tree man” because of the gnarled warts all over his body. He first noticed the warts on his body after cutting his knee as a teenager.
Over time, Dede was sacked from his job, deserted by his wife and shunned by neighbours as the horn-like extensions covered much of his body and stopped him working. He has two children. After his case received widespread publicity, donations from the public and government help allowed him to get treatment, and in 2008, six kilos of warts were surgically removed from his body.
3. Hypertrichosis: the Human Werewolf Syndrome
Hypertrichosis is a medical
condition that causes excessive growth of hair in areas where hair does not normally
grow. It may be present over the entire body, or you could have it in only one or
more areas. Some individuals will be born with the condition and others will develop
it later on in life.
Congenital Hypertrichosis is very rare. In fact, it is so rare that there have been only
50 verified cases since the Middle Ages. On 2008, the press interviewed Pruthviraj
Patil, an 11-year-old indian boy who’s face and body are covered with hair.
He rarely leaves his home village in India because of the cruelty of strangers.
Pruthviraj’s family has tried homeopathy, traditional Indian Ayurvedic remedies
even laser surgery without success, and he’s now appealing to doctor
to help him find a permanent cure since even after laser treatment the hair grows back.
4. Blaschko’s lines: strange stripes all over the body
An extremely rare and unexplained phenomenon of human anatomy,Blaschko’s lines
were first presented in 1901 by German dermatologist Alfred Blaschko. Neither a
specific disease nor a predictable symptom of a disease, Blaschko’s lines are an
invisible pattern built into human DNA.
Many inherited and acquired diseases of
the skin or mucosa manifest themselves according to these patterns, creating the visual
appearance of stripes. The cause of the stripes is thought to result from mosaicism;
they do not correspond to nervous, muscular, or lymphatic systems. What makes them
more remarkable is that they correspond quite closely from patient to patient, usually
forming a “V” shape over the spine and “S” shapes over the chest, stomach, and sides.
5.Vitiligo: white patched skin
Vitiligo is a skin
condition where the cells that make the pigment in your skin, the melanocytes,
get destroyed. This causes white patches to appear on your skin, and this disease
may affect any area of skin. These patches also show up on yoiur mucous membranes
and the retina of your ly: Georgia,Arial,Verdana; text-decoration: underline;”>eyes.
Symptoms include white or gray hair on the patches, as well as the white patches
on your skin, mucous membranes, and eyes.
The precise cause of vitiligo is complex and not fully understood. There is some
evidence suggesting it is caused by a combination of auto-immune, genetic,
and environmental factors. The population incidence worldwide is considered to
be between 1% and 2%.
6.Tungiasis: fleas burrow into the skin and lay eggs
Tungiasis is a skin infestation of the Tunga penetrans flea, found in the tropical
parts of Africa, Caribbean, ly: Georgia,Arial,Verdana; text-decoration:
underline;”>Central and South America, and India. This fleas burrow into
the skin and lay eggs, creating a disease which is actually
endemic in Nigeria and ly: Georgia,Arial,Verdana; text-decoration: underline
;”>Trinidad and Tobago, where in the 1980s the prevalence of tungiasis among
children approached 40%.
7.Dermatographia: overly sensitive skin
Dermatographia is a rare
condition where the skin is overly sensitive to minor injuries; even light scratches
will cause it to become red and raised. The person’s immune system exhibits
hypersensitivity, via skin, that releases excessive amounts of histamine, causing
capillaries to dilate and welts to appear (lasting about thirty minutes) when
the skin’s surface is lightly scratched. In 2008, Neatoramafeatured artist Ariana
Page Russell, who decided to use her medical conditionas the basis for art, with
some amazing results.
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