Skin disease

[Antonio Correia]

 

[Asher Kelman]

I'm puzzled and aghast that you'd title this picture as you've done. why? This is fellow with skin that seems normally involved by acne, a far too common skin condition that goes with bounding sex hormones of youth. It does not usually alter the person to make them sick and to justify the term "disease". However, it might be that in the original color, we might see much more. I could be that he has some tick born disease and indeed the skin looks frightening.

As it is he's a handsome proud young man! Nice portrait!

Asher

 

[Antonio Correia]

Perhaps you are right and it is not a disease...
In fact I do have seen - in spite of not having medical formation - what looks like skin disease problems in Asia among monks.
I do remember one a doctor walking with me somewhere in Asia to point that the person on our right had leprosy. I myself did not know the disease...
And... at least in certain areas I have seen many people with what looks like skin problems.

Does it looks like acne ?

 

[Asher Kelman]

Perhaps you are right and it is not a disease...
In fact I do have seen - in spite of not having medical formation - what looks like skin disease problems in Asia among monks.
I do remember one a doctor walking with me somewhere in Asia to point that the person on our right had leprosy. I myself did not know the disease...
And... at least in certain areas I have seen many people with what looks like skin problems.

Does it looks like acne ?

My first thoughts would be that this is acne, given the presence of different stages of lesions and at least one definite pustule.

However, the distribution including so many spots on the forehead is unusual for acne and makes me think of a tick born disease. I'd want to see his arms, legs and trunk. If this was in the USA, and he's got the same on his arms and legs and trunk after being in the woods, then I'd get him to the hospital for doxycycline or other therapy or he's be dead in several days. If it's just on his forehead and face, with obvious pustules, and no where else, then acne is more likely, but a physician always needs to look at him. One can't rely just on internet pictures to make a diagnosis.

I can proudly say that one of our members had his life saved by posting the picture he got after a tick bite on his bare feat. He'd go barefoot so as not to harm rare plants he was photographing. He went to Stanford Medical School Emergency Room and the fellow on duty missed the significance. Luckily, this was one of the topics I happened to have lectured on in the past, and my gut feeling was that it was a tick borne rickettsia like rocky mountain Spotted Fever. He got his doxycycline and fully recovered. Needless to say, he still respects wild flowers, but promises that he wears shoes! Read about it here

Asher

 

[Antonio Correia]

Interesting information in your link Asher.Thank you !

When we traveled we always carry a pharmacy with antibiotics, disinfectants and all that panoplia of stuff. Two syringes included. All important panoplia. LOL

Once, in Malaysia I was walking in the forest with sandals ! Wrong thing to do.
I was bitten twice ! My wife had the small pharmacy on her backpack and she treated me on the spot !

About the other place I post here another young man with what I think is the same skin problem.
I think he also has a conjunctivitis.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Do you know what you were bitten by? What is that sluggy worm?

Asher

 

[Antonio Correia]

It was a leech.