Dermatologist

The dermatology is a science about diseases and properties of skin. The dermatologist – the diagnosis, prevention specialist and treatment of diseases of skin, nails, hair and mucous. Proceeding from responses, dermatologists are very demanded in sport, medicine, in sanitary and epidemiologic structures, and also in cosmetology. These doctors in dermatovenerologic clinics, in scientific institutions, specialized clinics and policlinics work. Dermakosmetolog work in cosmetology offices and clinics.

Features of a profession dermatologist

The dermatologist treats skin manifestations and directly diseases of skin and its appendages, eliminates cosmetic defects, diagnoses reactions of skin at diseases of other profile directions. The consulting help, and also the prevention of spread of infectious and quarantine diseases also belongs to duties of the doctor.

This specialty demands from the doctor of knowledge of symptomatology of the profile direction, and also other directions of medicine as the condition of skin is influenced by a set of internal and external factors. External factors can be considered impact of ultraviolet on skin, household chemicals, insects and ticks, production harm on site of work. Carry autoimmune, somatic, endocrine and venereal diseases, helminthic invasions, vegetative disturbances, low immunity and allergic reactions to internal factors. Therefore especially important to the doctor of this specialty to be able to diagnose with a fine precision of the reason and a form of reaction of skin, to timely reveal pathogenic factors and to develop the scheme of therapy and prevention of skin diseases. The dermatologist has to be able to pick up the scheme of treatment, individual for each patient, adequate to a stage and a form of a skin disease, age and a sex of the patient, associated diseases, professional and household features of each case.

The doctor of this specialty has to be able to feel pity for people. It has to aim to fill up the knowledge all the time, and also has to possess high sense of responsibility, resistance to stress. The dermatologist shall own all modern techniques of diagnosis and treatment of diseases of skin. Besides, for this doctor it is very important to know the basic rules of safety of patients and own safety as the most part of skin diseases belongs to infectious.

On reception of the dermatologist

Consultation of the dermatologist is extremely necessary at psoriasis, mycosis, warts, vitiligo, angiites, dermatitis, itch, herpes, eczema, an erythema, eels, seborrhea, an alopecia, mites, a contagious mollusk, candidiasis, condylomas sharp-pointed and other diseases of skin and manifestations on skin.

There will be no consultation of the dermatologist superfluous at puffiness, unhealthy skin color, cellulitis, cracks, various rash, wrinkles and vascular asterisks. You should not neglect also consultation of the dermatologist and at sunbed frequentation (for prevention of development of a carcinoma cutaneum).

Before reception of the dermatologist it is impossible to use the antiallergic means and drugs of external use causing distortion of a clinical picture of a disease.

Before drug treatment the doctor usually recommends to take an allergy test. The allergy test is carried out to find out whether the patient has allergy to the certain components which are contained in medicines.

On reception the dermatologist listens to complaints, asks on allergic reactions, on a way of life of the patient. Further the doctor conducts pigmental screening, dermatological examination of an integument. If necessary the doctor can appoint blood test, the analysis to herpes infections, measles, syphilis, gerpevirusa, immunoglobulin, puncture cytology of skin, scrapings from eyelashes and skin on mites, scrapings from a nail and skin on fungi, microscopy or an immunofluorescent research, Dermoscopy (at new growths). Judging by responses, the dermatologist most often combines symptomatic, etiological and pathogenetic methods of treatment. The doctor usually applies topical and general drug treatment, surgical treatment, the special mode and a diet, physical therapy, psychotherapy, a balneotherapy.

Together with the patient the dermatologist makes the individual scheme of treatment, answers all interesting questions and provides information on what cosmetic drugs it is the best of all to use for skin.

Children's dermatologist

The children's dermatologist is engaged in diagnosis, prevention and treatment of diseases of skin and its appendages at children. Most often at children allergic diseases of skin (eczema, atopic dermatitis) are observed, but also other dermatological diseases – inflammatory, pustulous and fungus skin diseases, an acne sometimes meet (eels, spots, acne rash). It is necessary to address the children's dermatologist if skin of the child reddened and it is shelled, on its surface the moknutiya, various rashes, erosion appeared. Consultation of the doctor is necessary in the presence on the surface of skin of the child of spots, small knots, papules, blisters, hillocks, hems and ulcers, unusual grazes, scales.

In treatment the dermatologist has to consider specific features of each child. Diagnosis of skin diseases at children's age has to be directed to inspection of a nervous system, internals of the child and a hormonal background. After inspection the dermatologist appoints necessary drugs, and also various creams, ointments, gels for external use. Besides, at some diseases, judging by responses, the dermatologist can appoint sanitation of the chronic centers of an infection, and also recommend a special medical diet and drugs for increase in protective forces of an organism.