Spoiler: surgical infections mostly come from patients' own microbiomes (and article is not about covid).
This makes me wonder about people with eczema, which is related to higher-than-usual staph bacteria levels on the skin. Do eczema patients have commensurately higher rates of surgical infections?
I'm curious if any medical or science people here have insight on that.
"Are cutaneous signs of rheumatic disease missed in darker skin?
Medical textbooks and courses often don’t show diversity.
DEC 2023. A number of rheumatic diseases may be missed because doctors miss cutaneous signs on people of colour.
In a recent editorial in #Rheumatology, authors from the U.K. and Kenya stated: “Many reports, including a systematic review in Rheumatology, indicate underrepresentation of images of cutaneous rheumatological signs in skin of colour, compounded by inappropriate or inaccurate descriptive medical terminology.”
It’s a problem because textbooks, publications and websites tend to be slanted toward lighter skin types and don’t offer much help for real-life practices where patient populations can be quite diverse.
“This observation will come as no surprise to rheumatologists in many countries, from sub-Saharan Africa to Asia, who for years have struggled to create their own libraries of cutaneous signs of rheumatological diseases because textbooks, publications and websites, slanted towards lighter skin types, were not useful in their practice,” the authors wrote...."
A clinical trial has begun testing an experimental treatment for burns using off-the-shelf therapeutic particles derived from human bone marrow stem cells.
I have not said it much in public, but I think I can’t keep it mostly private anymore.
For the past 1 year-plus (since April of 2022), I have been afflicted by a nasty skin rash that has slowly migrated from my neck and arms to my hands, and has stubbornly stayed there ever since.
I have started seeing a doctor for it since late last year, but it seems like nothing is making it go away for good.
Right now I’m not sure what else to do, other than to ask: are there any other #ActuallyAutistic people who have to deal with these skin issues as well? How to you manage to make them go away for good (if you did)? And if there are any skin specialists on the Fediverse, I would like to hear your opinions as well.