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- skellingtonjr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Stop having children for christs sake.
- Ghost666, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I admire the strength those children have.
- samadam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7From a website: http://www.ichthyosis.com/Show_n_Tell.htm
What is Ichthyosis?
The Ichthyoses are a family of skin diseases; the characteristic that they each share is that they cause the skin to build up and scale (some medical journals and dictionaries still refer to ichthyosis as "fish skin disease’). The degree of scaling can vary; some people who have ichthyosis just have dry skin. They can pretty easily care for their skin with drugstore lotions, and unless they told you they had trouble with dry skin, you probably would never know that had it. As you might guess, this type of ichthyosis is fairly common. However, most forms of ichthyosis are much more severe (also very rare). The scaling can be very heavy—you definitely notice right away, just passing someone on the street, that something is wrong with their skin. However, it’s much more than a cosmetic problem for the person who has ichthyosis—the scaling can be very painful, as it can restrict the body’s range of movement, pull so tightly around the face that the eyelids turn outward, cause deep cracks or fissures at the joints, adversely affect hearing, and more. People who have ichthyosis will probably try their best to hide these problems from you. They don’t want you to pity them, and they don’t want their ichthyosis to stop them from doing everything in life that everyone else can do. However, living with ichthyosis can be very tough.
How Does This Happen?
Your skin is alive; it is your body’s largest organ! With "normal" skin, the skin is constantly renewing itself, dying, and shedding (the average skin cell has a lifespan of 14 days). Most of the time you probably don’t even notice that this is going on. When your skin sheds, it’s practically invisible (unless you’re looking at it under a microscope!) because it’s shedding in pieces that are so small. With ichthyosis, the skin doesn’t follow the life cycle that it’s supposed to, and builds up. In CIE and EH, the cells reproduce too fast, faster than they can shed, and build up. In Lamellar Ichthyosis, X-linked Ichthyosis and Ichthyosis Vulgaris, the skin cells reproduce at a normal rate, but they don’t shed as quickly as they should, and again produce a build-up. - bysin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5This video makes me feel a little better about my acne.
- robotbling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the parents are retarded for not adopting instead of allowing a third child to endure this
- genr8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The family is amazing for dealing with it so well and being so optimistic. I know I wouldn't handle it well at all.
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