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This glossary defines commonly used dermatitis terms, including products and medications used in the treatment of dermatitis and other skin conditions that co-exist with dermatitis, such as acne, rosacea, eczema, and psoriasis.
Salicylic Acid: considered a Beta Hydroxy acid. This occurs in nature in sweet birch and in wintergreen leaves. Its effects on the epidermis and upper dermis are similar to those of Retin-A, but with less irritation.
Scales: thin flakes on the skin surface.
Schistosome dermatitis: swimmers itch.
Sebaceous cysts: a blocked gland or duct. While usually not painful, a sebaceous cyst can become tender if infected. A grayish, odorous material can be drained from the cyst.
Seborrhea dermatitis: A skin condition characterized by loose, greasy or dry, white to yellowish scales, with or without associated reddened skin. Cradle cap is the term used when seborrheic dermatitis affects the scalp of infants. Alternative names Dandruff; Seborrheic eczema; Cradle cap
Seborrheic dermatitis: A skin condition characterized by loose, greasy or dry, white to yellowish scales, with or without associated reddened skin. Cradle cap is the term used when seborrheic dermatitis affects the scalp of infants. Alternative names Dandruff; Seborrheic eczema; Cradle cap
Secondary infections: an infection that occurs during or after treatment of a primary infection. It may result from the treatments or from alterations in the immune system. For example, a yeast infection that occurs after antibiotic treatment of a bacterial infection is a secondary infection.
Shake lotions: A combination of a powder and liquid that must be shaken before application.
Shingles: water blisters that become filled with pus, scab over, and then heal. This is the same virus that causes chicken pox.
Sodium Sulfacetamide (sull-fuh-SEET-uh-mide) Lotion®: Topical antibiotic used to treat acne. Also sold under the brand name(s): Klaron
Spider veins: small enlarged superficial blood vessels that appear red or blue. They commonly occur on the legs, but frequently occur on the face or elsewhere.
Squamous cell carcinoma: Comprises 16% of skin cancers, and attacks the mid-layers of the skin layer. Symptoms resemble those of basal cell cancer.
Stasis dermatitis: often occurs with varicose veins. Stasis dermatitis may cause the skin at your ankles and over your shins to become discolored (red or brown), thick and itchy. Stasis dermatitis can occur when fluid accumulates in the tissues just beneath your skin. Varicose veins and other chronic conditions in your legs can cause the fluid buildup.
Steroid: an abbreviated word for corticosteroids, which are powerful drugs, used to control inflammation and itching of the skin. They are also used for other inflammatory skin conditions such as psoriasis and dermatitis. They don't cure the conditions but can ease the symptoms. They work by reducing inflammation of the skin and thus easing the symptoms of itching, redness and swelling that occur with many skin conditions.
Steroid rosacea: the name given to a rosacea-like condition on the face caused by potent topical steroids. After several weeks of applying a topical steroid to the eyelids, cheeks or chin the affected area becomes red (erythematous). Small bumps (papules) and pustules appear intermittently, and may paradoxically be especially severe when the topical steroid cream is discontinued.
Steronide: (Desonide) a low to medium-potency topical anti-inflammatory corticosteroid; reduces irritation and itching on the affected areas of the skin. Also sold under the brand name(s): DesOwen® Topical; Tridesilon® Topical, Desocort®
Stratum Corneum: the outermost layer of skin. Seals moisture in the skin and acts as a barrier against foreign chemicals, bacteria etc. from penetrating the skin.
Strontium Calming Lotion: By Rosacare; manufactured maintains it will relieve facial burning, stinging, itching or redness due to environmental or chemical irritants.
Styes: An infection of oil glands in the eyelid. Alternative name: Hordeolum
Sumycin®: an oral antibiotic often prescribed for rosacea. Also sold under the brand name(s): Panmycin®, Tetracyline, Robitet®, Achromycin V®, Tetracyn®
Synalar®: by Medicis, (fluocinolone), a topical steroid. Also sold under the brand name(s): Derma-Smoothe/FS, Fluonid, Flurosyn, FS Shampoo, Synalar-HP, Synemol
Synemol® Cream: (Medicis), a topical steroid. Also sold under the brand name(s): Derma-Smoothe/FS, Fluonid, Flurosyn, FS Shampoo, Synalar, Synalar-HP
Subcutaneous tissue: the deepest layer of skin, under the epidermis and dermis. Subcutaneous tissue is composed of fat, tissue that separates the fat in lobules (pockets), nerves and blood vessels. The fatty tissue is biologically active and subject to inflammatory processes.
Sunburn: skin burned by exposure to the sun or other ultraviolet light.
Swimmer's itch: also called cercarial dermatitis, is a skin rash caused by an allergic reaction to infection with certain parasites of birds and mammals
Systemic: affecting the entire body, rather than a single organ or body part.
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