describe a rash or skin lesion that presents to your clinic. If your diagnosis is bacterial, I want your two differentials to be two different origins such as fungal and viral. For example: If the patient is diagnosed with tinea corporis (fungal), your differentials might be Lyme disease (arthropod) and eczema (inflammatory). Your answer needs to include how they are similar but, more importantly, how you differentiate one from the other. Include a complete description (size, shape, distribution, borders, and color), onset, associated symptoms (pain, fever, pruritis, and drainage), etiology, patho, and treatment of just the final diagnosis.
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Answer: Skin lesion may be described as an abnormal appearance of skin as compared to other parts of skin. It may cause itching, redness if it is scratched. Tinea corporis is a fungul infection which causes a circle shaped rash which is caused by an infection so it is also called as "Ringworm of the body". This is mainly caused by fungus known as dermatophytes. Dermatophytes lives on the person's body parts known as keratin which also includes the nails, skin, and hair but mainly it affects the skin.
It can be spread through many ways such as
The diagnosis is done by the healthcare professionals by taking the sample of the infected skin and test for the fungus under the microscope. The treatment includes the medication such as clotrimazole, tolnaftate etc. in the form of a powder, ointment, or cream which can be applied directly to the infected areas of the skin.
*Lyme disease:
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi that are transmitted to humans through a bite from an infected tick. The infection may depend upon the type of tick bite and the symptom may be retained for several days to months. The symptoms include severe headache, rashes on the body parts, increase heart rate etc.
The diagnosis includes the blood test which is considered to be most accurate but the result also depends upon the durtion or the time of tick bite. For the treatment of the tick bite antibiotics are being given to the infected person such as amoxicillin and cefuroxime for 2 to 3 weeks.
*Eczema:
It is a condition of disease where there are patches on the skin occurs which is itchy, inflamed and sometimes blisters occurs. The symptoms of eczema vary according to the age of the person but they include scaly, itchy patches of skin. It is not a cautious disease. There is no treatment for eczema, but only we can prevent it and get relief by apply lotion or ointment. Many of the times corticosteroid may be given to be applied as in the form of a lotion.
describe a rash or skin lesion that presents to your clinic. If your diagnosis is bacterial,...
describe a rash or skin lesion that presents to your clinic. If your diagnosis is bacterial, I want your two differentials to be two different origins such as fungal and viral. For example: If the patient is diagnosed with tinea corporis (fungal), your differentials might be Lyme disease (arthropod) and eczema (inflammatory). XXXXXXXX Your answer needs to include XXXXX how they are similar but, more importantly, how you differentiate one from the other. Include a complete description (size, shape, distribution,...