Solutions: Lesson 2

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SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES, LESSON 2

1. You ask these (and other questions) to try to determine what the patient's skin has

been expose to over a period of time. (para 2-2a)

2. Drugs are often the cause of skin eruptions. (para 2-2b)

3. Seafoods.

Nuts.

Berries. (para 2-2c)

4. You are correct if you listed any two of the following:

Exact description of eruption when it began.

Description of the first lesion.

Details of the development/extension of the skin lesion.

Information about the skin problem if it has happened before. (para 2-2d)

5. You are correct if you listed any two of the following:

Skin diseases.

Allergies.

Diabetes.

Hypertension.

Bleeding disorders.

Anemia.

Nervous disturbances.

Muscular disturbances.

Intellectual disturbances.

Emotional disturbances. (para 2-2(e))

6. The Wood's lamp. (para 2-3c(1))

7. Tinea versicolor. (para 2-3c(2))

8. Wood's lamp. (para 2-3c(1))

9. Hyperpigmentation. (para 2-4b(1))

10. Hypopigmentation. (para 2-4b(2))

11. Erythema. (para 2-4b(3))

12. Melanin.

Carotene.

Blood in capillaries. (para 2-4a)

13. Skin color differences in the races. (para 2-4a)

14. Blood in the capillaries close to the surface without a heavy pigment to mask the

color. (para 2-4a)

15. The yellowish hue or color. (para 2-4a)

16. Dry. (para 2-5e)

17. Turgor. (para 2-5d)

18. Hyperthyroidism. (para 2-5a)

19. Jaundice. (para 2-4b(7))

20. Ecchymosis. (para 2-4b(5))

21. Fungal. (para 2-6b)

22. Patch. (para 2-6d(1)(c))

23. Men as well as women can have breast cancer. (para 2-7a)

24. Tine.

Mantoux. (para 2-6d(2))

End of Lesson 2

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