Pityriasis rosea
Disease information
Pityriasis rosea
The pink pitiriasis is an inflammatory
disease
that affects the skin, of
eruptiva
,
benign
type and of short duration, although is cases in that the pink spots can last up to 6 weeks or more.
Its
origin
is not known well, although it thinks that it can be viral. It can affect any age,
but
one mainly appears in adolescents and young people, in familiar groups or scholastic and mainly in the stations of
spring
and
autumn
and in climate places generally tempered, nevertheless one thinks that it is not
a
contagious
disease
.
It is pronounced by
a
descamativa eruption, of pink, round or made oval spots, with yellowish center, risen, reddish edges and with folded surface, very seemed of others.
They appear first in the chest or the back with
a
great well - known spot like heraldo or plate
mother
. After one or two weeks, appear other smaller pink spots on the trunk, the forearms and the legs, calls "medallones". Also it can arise in the neck,
but
rare time one extends to the face, palms of hands and plants of the feet.
Racial differences in the manifestation of the pitiriasis have been observed. In people of black race, the eruption can cover the forearm and the legs and in some cases, the eruption on the trunk or back looks like
a
"Christmas tree" with fallen branches and in the bronzed people, it can be limited the zones nonexposed by the sun, as the breasts, the armpits, the rumps and pubis.
Between the symptoms, in addition to the pink spots, they are:
Comezón, that can calm when applying maicena.
intense Fatigue.
generalized Pain.
In acute cases, they can appear ronchas, in addition to the
eruptiva
spot.
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