What is Dandruff?
What is Dandruff?
- Dandruff: White flaking and dryness of the scalp.
- Dandruff: A chronic inflammatory disease of the skin of unknown etiology. It is characterized by moderate erythema, dry, moist, or greasy scaling, and yellow crusted patches on various areas, especially the scalp. On the scalp, it generally appears first as small patches of scales, progressing to involve the entire scalp with exfoliation of excessive amounts of dry scales (dandruff).
Source - Diseases Database
- Dandruff: a condition in which white scales of dead skin are shed by the scalp.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Dandruff: Introduction
Types of Dandruff:
Broader types of Dandruff:
How many people get Dandruff?
Prevalance of Dandruff: 50 million
Prevalance Rate of Dandruff: approx 1 in 5 or 18.38% or 50 million people in USA [about data]
Who gets Dandruff?
Patient Profile for Dandruff: Common in teens and young adults
How serious is Dandruff?
Prognosis of Dandruff: Excellent. Usually harmless. Some social embarrassment.
Complications of Dandruff:
see complications of Dandruff
What causes Dandruff?
Causes of Dandruff: see causes of Dandruff
Cause of Dandruff: Pityrosporon ovale yeast on the scalp.
What are the symptoms of Dandruff?
Symptoms of Dandruff:
see symptoms of Dandruff
Complications of Dandruff:
see complications of Dandruff
Onset of Dandruff: after puberty
Can anyone else get Dandruff?
Contagion of Dandruff: Not contagious.
More information:
see contagiousness of Dandruff
Inheritance:
see inheritance of Dandruff
Dandruff: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Dandruff.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Dandruff.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Dandruff:
see treatments for Dandruff
Prevention of Dandruff:
see prevention of Dandruff
Society issues for Dandruff
Hospitalization statistics for Dandruff:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Dandruff:
- 0.002% (207) of hospital consultant episodes were for seborrhoeic dermatitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 94% of hospital consultant episodes for seborrhoeic dermatitis required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital consultant episodes for seborrhoeic dermatitis were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 42% of hospital consultant episodes for seborrhoeic dermatitis were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 77% of hospital consultant episodes for seborrhoeic dermatitis required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 4.1 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for seborrhoeic dermatitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 2 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for seborrhoeic dermatitis in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- more statistics...»
Organs Affected by Dandruff:
Organs and body systems related to Dandruff include:
Name and Aliases of Dandruff
Main name of condition: Dandruff
Other names or spellings for Dandruff:
scalp dandruff, seborrheic dermatitis
Seborrhoeic dermatitis
Source - Diseases Database
Seborrheic eczema
Source - WordNet 2.1
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