Yellow disease
Description:
Yellow disease — a peculiar coloring of skin in yellow color with a greenish or orange shade.
Synonyms: carotenemia; xanthodermia; xanthochromia (xanthochromia carotinica Sezary; aurantiasis cutis Baelz).
Yellow disease reasons:
The yellow disease can arise at healthy faces at excess receipt with carotene food — provitamin A (pumpkin, oranges, carrots, etc.) which completely is not acquired and laid in skin and hypodermic cellulose (primary yellow disease). The yellow disease arising at moderate receipt in a carotene organism has bigger value.
Owing to insufficient transformation by a carotene liver the yellow disease and the phenomena of insufficiency of vitamin A in the form of a follicular hyperkeratosis, dryness, a peeling of skin, disturbance of tempo adaptation can develop in vitamin A at the same time. This secondary yellow disease happens at diseases of digestive organs, a thyroid gland, decrease in oxidation-reduction processes in an organism.
The yellow disease develops at excess receipt in a carotene organism
Yellow disease symptoms:
Coloring of skin, yellow with greenish or orange shade, especially on places with the slowed-down blood circulation — palms and soles, in the field of nasolabial folds where carotene is emitted with skin fat and collects in horn masses. In more expressed cases coloring extends to a trunk and extremities, to nails. Mucous membranes are not painted.
Coloring is not followed by the inflammatory phenomena and subjective feelings.
Treatment of a yellow disease:
At primary yellow disease — the termination of reception of karotinsoderzhashchy products; at secondary, with the phenomena of insufficiency of vitamin A — vitamin A till 15-20 drops 2 times a day; Thyreoidinum on 0,1 g 2-3 times a day.
