Epidermolysis Bullosa
Epidermolysis Bullosa
There are four main types of Epidermolysis Bullosa, all can be fatal and they affect infants and children. Each case is different but all of them are extremely painful. Each one ranges from a form of a mild case to severe case and sometimes even death. The four types of Epidermolysis Bullosa include Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex, Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa and Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquista.
Each one mentioned above is very different form the other. Each one also has various sub-types of the condition. Today approximately one in ever fifty thousand children born are affected by the disease. In today’s general population nine in one million suffer from this disease. Most people
who have this disease pass away at a very young age. The oldest know person living with this condition was Tabatha Nichols of Hastings Michigan. She was twenty-four years old when she passed away in her room at a nursing home.
The most noticeable trait that this condition causes is that is causes the skin of the human body to tear easily and blister. The blisters are fluid filled and they erupt on the skin. It mostly happens on the palms and bottoms of feet and the back. Some of the complications include infection, sepsis, deformities, mal-nutrition and anemia, dehydration, constipation, eye disorders, skin cancer, and death.
The way this skin condition is formed is in two ways. The first way is by a mutated gene passed from one or both of the parents and the other way is simply and autoimmune disease that causes the body to eat away at itself on accident. It involves more than ten genes to make up the skin and only one has to be defective to cause the skin condition.
Epidermolysis Bullosa
Each one is different one effects the top layer of skin which is seen by the naked eye and the
There are four main types of Epidermolysis Bullosa, all can be fatal and they affect infants and children. Each case is different but all of them are extremely painful. Each one ranges from a form of a mild case to severe case and sometimes even death. The four types of Epidermolysis Bullosa include Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa, Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex, Junctional Epidermolysis Bullosa and Epidermolysis Bullosa Acquista.
Each one mentioned above is very different form the other. Each one also has various sub-types of the condition. Today approximately one in ever fifty thousand children born are affected by the disease. In today’s general population nine in one million suffer from this disease. Most people
who have this disease pass away at a very young age. The oldest know person living with this condition was Tabatha Nichols of Hastings Michigan. She was twenty-four years old when she passed away in her room at a nursing home.
The most noticeable trait that this condition causes is that is causes the skin of the human body to tear easily and blister. The blisters are fluid filled and they erupt on the skin. It mostly happens on the palms and bottoms of feet and the back. Some of the complications include infection, sepsis, deformities, mal-nutrition and anemia, dehydration, constipation, eye disorders, skin cancer, and death.
The way this skin condition is formed is in two ways. The first way is by a mutated gene passed from one or both of the parents and the other way is simply and autoimmune disease that causes the body to eat away at itself on accident. It involves more than ten genes to make up the skin and only one has to be defective to cause the skin condition.
Epidermolysis Bullosa
Each one is different one effects the top layer of skin which is seen by the naked eye and the