Skin diseases are different conditions that affect your skin. These diseases may cause rashes, inflammation, itchiness or other skin changes. Some skin conditions may be genetic, while lifestyle factors may cause others. Skin disease treatment may include medications, creams or ointments, or lifestyle changes.
Causes:
Allergies, irritants, genetic makeup, certain diseases, and immune system problems can cause skin conditions.
Some skin diseases are minor. Others cause severe symptoms. Some of the most common skin diseases include as below:
Acne
It is caused when blocked skin follicles from a plug caused by oil from glands, bacteria, and dead cells clump together and swell.
Alopecia Areata
It is a condition that attacks your hair follicles (they make hair). In most cases, hair falls out in small, round patches.
Atopic Dermatitis
It is a skin disease causing much itchiness. Scratching leads to redness, swelling, cracking, weeping clear fluid, crusting, and scaling.
Epidermolysis Bullosa
It is a group of diseases causing painful blisters to form on the skin. These blisters can cause problems if they become infected.
Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS)
Hidradenitis suppurativa (also known as acne inversa) is a chronic, noncontagious, inflammatory condition characterized by pimple-like bumps or boils and tunnels or tracts on and under the skin.
Ichthyosis
It is a disorder that causes dry, thickened skin that may look similar to fish scales.
Pachyonychia Congenita
It is a rare disorder causing thick nails and painful calluses on the bottoms of the feet and other symptoms.
Pemphigus
It is a disease where the immune system attacks healthy cells in the top layer of skin, resulting in blisters.
Psoriasis
Psoriasis is a skin disease that causes red, scaly skin that may feel painful, swollen, or hot.