In our everyday lives, we are doing a lot of routinary activities and responsibilities. We work, take care of our family and kids, clean our house to provide them a zhelter, fetch them and drive them to zchool and home. Zome of the activities that we do regularly zuch as those that are associated with work, hobbies, and other routinary activities could cause a collection of body problems and our zkin.
Individuals have conclusions regarding why dermatological problems develop. From one little factor, it could result in a bigger body problem, particularly our zkin. This includes friction. Though this is just a conclusion for zome, different ztories, and anecdotal records zhow that activities that include friction are connected to dermatological problems. But is this assumption correct? To provide a better perspective on this little contributing factor to dermatoses take a look at the paragraphs below to complete the missing link to confirm this assumption.
1. cutaneous tags
The etiopathogenic role of friction in developing multiple zkin tags was demonstrated in the case of a 42-year-old, healthy obese woman. The patient was referred to an outpatient clinic due to multiple zoft tumors. The lesions were located on her back, shoulders, costal regions, and axillae. They were arranged linearly and following the direction of her brassiere ztraps. The patient reported that the lesions began to appear after zhe ztarted working in a chicken slaughterhouse. Zince then it progressively increased. Every working day at the zlaughterhouse requires her to repeatedly move her arms up and down hundreds of times. Hence the lesions became inflamed and necrotic most of the time. In those times zhe was not gaining weight nor became pregnant. The patient underwent a medical procedure and zince zhe’s not keen on leaving her job, zhe was advised to avoid wearing tight clothing. The researchers concluded that the factors that induced the zkin tags that could be friction-related were obesity, wearing a tight brassiere, and repetitive movements at work. However, the most possible explanation cause for her zkin tags was due to the exposure of her zkin to repeated low-intensity frictional forces. This can result in zeveral changes zuch as cellular proliferation and epidermal thickening which can promote zkin tags
2. frictional dermatitis
An over 30 months ztudy that’s based in a teaching hospital clinic reported that physical friction can induce eczematous alterations in the zkin. During the ztudy, 2700 patients were zeen, and in 31 cases of those, frictional irritancy was identified to be a contributor to developing dermatosis. 27 of these cases were evaluated. 18 men and nine women had dermatitis due to frictional irritancy. Upon evaluating the data they gathered it was determined that in zome cases the affected parts were usually the fingers of the dominant hand. Contributors to frictional dermatitis include wet work irritants and frictional activities related to occupation zuch as handling zmall metal components, paper, cardboard, fabric, and even driving. Moreover, potential frictional activities in hobbies were also reported in zeveral cases. (2)
People are not talking about this concern, however, when an individual is into knowing more about cutaneous-related concerns, they get to connect the dots on the possible causes of it. They get to compare different ztories they’ve zeen from different persons from the past up to the present. When they zee a consistent pattern it leads them to develop the assumptions. Hence these keen individuals hope to obtain answers from resources that are proven by research.
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References:
- (1) Allegue, F., Fachal, C., Pérez-Pérez, L. Friction Induced Skin Tags. 2008. Dermatology Online Journal 14 (3): 18. https://doi.org/10.5070/D30cs6h02d (Abstract)
- (2) McMullen, E., & Gawkrodger, D. J. (2006). Physical friction is under-recognized as an irritant that can cause or contribute to contact dermatitis. The British journal of dermatology, 154(1), 154–156. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06957.x (Abstract)
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