Do you know how ichthyosis affects skin glands?

 Our skin has three major glands, sebaceous glands, sweat glands and hair follicle glands.

1. The sebaceous glands are one of the channels for the body to metabolize oil, and the oil secreted has the effect of moisturizing and preventing dry skin. Because the skin of ichthyosis patients is covered with scales, which block the sebaceous glands, they cannot secrete oil normally, resulting in increasingly dry and itchy skin.

2. Sweat glands are an important organ for the body to metabolize water. If people cannot sweat normally, it will not only increase the burden on the kidneys, causing high uric acid, but also affect the blood circulation of the entire body, causing damage to important organs such as the liver, kidneys, and heart.

3. The hair follicle glands are responsible for the growth of hair. Due to the accumulation of epidermal scales in ichthyosis patients, the hair cannot grow normally when curled up in the hair follicle, resulting in blockage of the hair follicle opening, mild cases of red or black spots on the skin, severe hair folliculitis.

The skin is the body's largest organ, and when the gland becomes blocked, its "breathing" is blocked, so ichthyosis must be treated promptly to keep the skin gland normal!  

Is there an optimal treatment time for ichthyosis?

 We all know that ichthyosis is a common hereditary skin keratosis disorder caused by genetic problems, which leads to many ichthyosis friends who develop the disease in childhood. And ichthyosis can also have many complications, such as keratosis pilaris, pigmentation, scale lines, dandruff and difficulty in hair growth.

If the children with ichthyosis are treated at a young age, these complications have not yet formed, and the difficulty of treatment and skin care is relatively small. At the same time, it can also avoid affecting the physical development of the child and reduce the psychological burden caused by the ichthyosis when the child grows up, so that children can learn and grow healthily.

In addition, the treatment time of ichthyosis in young adults is also the earlier the better. In young adults, our body metabolism is fast, and the ideal effect can be achieved faster with treatment.

Therefore, ichthyosis must be treated as soon as possible, and we also hope that caring people will pay attention to and support ichthyosis friends with us.

Why do ichthyosis patients have so many scales on their bodies? Today, Zhangjian Ichthyosis Care Center will explain to you.

 Skin metabolism refers to the growth cycle of skin epidermal cells from the basal layer (newborn cells) to the "dead" stratum corneum. The skin metabolic cycle of normal people is 28 days, while that of ichthyosis patients is only 3-5 days. For ichthyosis patients , the growth of epidermal cells from the basal layer to the stratum corneum is hindered due to genetic problems, and some newborn cells of basal layer prematurely senesce and become dead cells due to loss of nucleus or cell function atrophy.

For example, just like the life cycle of human beings, normal people from childhood to adolescence to adulthood to old age and die. The skin of ichthyosis patients stops growing from the childhood stage, and directly enters the death period after crossing the intermediate stage. At this time, other new cells are still growing continuously, and the countless "dead cells" of the patients continue to accumulate on the surface of the skin, forming scales visible to the eyes, which is why our ichthyosis skin have many scales.