Skins

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Skins

• Personal Treatment Plans

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Why Plans?

• Once you start treating skin conditions habits
  die-hard! You do the first thing that comes into
  your head or have been told or scavenge from the
  BNF, thereafter you always do the same thing.
  This may not lead to rational therapy and leaves
  you stuck when confronted with lesions that do
  not respond (so re think the diagnosis!).

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Why Plans?

• To counter this it is sensible to work out your
  own treatment plan or guideline plus the addition
  of tips and wrinkles for when things go awry.
• Should be based on known pathophysiology.

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Why Plans? - Summary

• Plethora of preparations available
• Knowing what to next
• Logical progression
• Optimising therapy
• Tips and wrinkles

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What Plans?

• Infections / infestations
• Acne vulgaris
• Acne rosacea
• Dermatophytoses
• Lice
• Scabies
• Seborrhoeic dermatitis
• Bacterial infections
• Warts

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What Plans?

• Sensitivities
• Eczema
• Ages, patterns
• Tips and wrinkles
• Triggers

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What Plans?

• Metabolic / errors of metabolism
• Psoriasis
• Systemic disease
• Diabetes
• GIT disease
• Erythema multiforme
• Erythema nodosum

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What Plans?

• Skin cancers
• Pre-malignant lesions
• BCC
• Melanomas
• Squamous
•  The scalp
• Allopecia

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Homework

• Skin Cancers
• Features
• Diagnosis
• Management
• Prevention?
• Health education