Health Assessment - Hair, Skin & Nails
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- Eccrine Glands
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- A type of sudoiferous (sweat) gland
- more numerous than apocrine glands
- clear, prespiration of water and salts - Apocrine Glands
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- a type of sudoriferous (sweat) gland
- found primarily in the axiallary and genital regions
- dormant until the onset of puberty
- produces odour - Sebaceous Glands
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- oil glands
- not on palms or soles of feet
- produce sebum (fat and keratin) - Layers of Skin
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Stratum...
Corneum
Lucidum
Granulosum
Spinosum
Basale
- How long is the active phase of hair?
- 4 years
- How long is the resting phase of hair?
- a few months
- Vellus Hair
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Pale, fine, short strands
- grow over entire body except for the lips, nipples, palms, soles of feet, and parts of external genitals - Vernix Caseosa
- white, cheeselike mixture of sebum and epidermal cells
- Milia
- sebum that collects in the openings of hair follicles (little white spots)
- Diaphoresis
- Profuse Sweating
- Vitiligo
- patchy depigmented areas over the face, neck, hands, feet and body folds
- Nevus (Nevi)
- Congenital marks
- Primary Lesions
- develop on previously unaltered skin
- Secondary Lesions
- Lesions that change over time or because of scratching, abrasion or infection
- Ecchymosis
- bruising
- Pediculosis Capitis
- head lice
- Stork Bites
- Birth marks
- Acrocyanosis
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a normal finding in newborns
- times of stress or cold
- hands & feet appear cyanotic
- often accompanied by increased mottling of the distal arms and legs - Onycholysis
- separation of the nail plate from the nail bed
- Paronychia
- infection of the cuticle
- What is clubbing?
- angle between the skin and the nail base is greater than 160 degrees
- Schamroth Test
- test for clubbing
- Alopecia Areata
- patchy hair loss (may be due to infection