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A thorough history and examination are crucial for diagnosing skin diseases, which affect up to a third of people. This includes details about skin lesions, medication, general health, lifestyle, family, and contacts, as well as examining the rash, hair, nails, and mucous membranes. Changes in hair and nails can also indicate other medical and skin disorders.

Stress, nutritional issues, and chronic diseases can cause hair loss, and nail changes may signal internal diseases; treatment focuses on the underlying cause.

Pregnancy can cause skin changes and affect existing skin conditions, with limited treatment options due to the need for fetal safety.

Syphilis patients showed abnormal hair root changes, with no difference between primary and secondary stages.

The Polish Dermatological Society recommends personalized treatment for cutaneous lupus, including lifestyle changes, medications, and monitoring, with specific drugs for severe cases.

Most skin diseases in Hajjah, Yemen, were dermatitis, infections, and acne, influenced by local socioeconomic and environmental factors.

Older women face various skin issues like dryness and thinning, and treatments are available but can have side effects; proper skin care and legal health decisions are important.

The pandemic changed how often certain skin conditions were diagnosed.

Most spinal cord injury patients in Korea experience skin problems, especially fungal infections and eczema, affecting their quality of life.

Taxane chemotherapy can cause skin, hair, and nail side effects, which are often under-reported and can affect patient quality of life.

Some drugs can cause skin, nail, and hair problems, which are important for healthcare professionals to recognize and report.

Most patients treated with low-dose alpha-interferon for malignant melanoma experienced skin side effects, with hair loss being the most frequent.

Adult skin quickly reacts to short-term environmental and internal stress, leading to various skin issues and the need for protective measures.

Systemic diseases can cause hair loss, which is often reversible with treatment.

Dogs with generalized discoid lupus erythematosus have similar symptoms to humans and need continuous treatment.

Older adults have a wide range of skin conditions, with dry skin being very common and many also experiencing skin growths, itching, and infections.

A 10-year-old boy had the earliest reported case of hair that became progressively kinkier but eventually returned to normal on its own.

Skin side effects from cancer treatments can lead to changes in therapy and are common, with nail changes being the most frequent.

Glucocorticoids are powerful anti-inflammatory drugs that must be used carefully to avoid serious side effects.

Up to 50% of scalp hair can be lost before it appears thin, and treatment is only needed for hair loss caused by diseases or deficiencies.

Most skin conditions can be managed with general medical knowledge.

Most postmenopausal women experience significant skin changes and various skin conditions.

A woman with thymoma developed a rare chronic condition similar to graft versus host disease after surgery.

Nails can reveal important health information about skin and body conditions.

The COVID-19 pandemic led to fewer dermatology visits and changed the types of skin conditions patients experienced.

Skin infections and eczema were most common in all ages, acne in teens and young adults, and nutritional skin problems and infestations in children.

Bimatoprost can cause longer, thicker, darker eyelashes and eyebrows.

Beta-blockers can cause rare skin side-effects, which usually improve after stopping the medication.

The document concludes that early recognition and appropriate treatment of red scalp, red ear, and red scrotum syndromes can lead to remission.

The report suggests that hair loss in Cronkhite-Canada syndrome may be caused by alopecia areata incognita, as shown by a patient's improvement with treatment.