Question

Introduction to Pharmacology.

1) Knowledge: List three common effects of aging on the skin structures..

2) Experience: Have you had experience with or others you know had any experience with these ailments? Describe them and the medications that were used to treat them.

3) Speculation: Which of these diseases is the easiest to treat and why? Which do you think would be the most challenging and why?

Answer 1

1. The effects of aging on skin are :-

- skin becomes rougher

- skin develops lesions like benign tumor

- skin becomes slack ,loss of elasticity .

- skin becomes more transparent

- skin becomes more fragile

- skin becomes more easily bruised.

2. No, I never had an experience with or others I know had an experience with these ailments.

3. Allergic reaction treatment is the easiest to treat because in this disease is caused due to exposure to the allergic agent ,when these allergic agents are removed from the environment ,the patient becomes itself fine .

The most challenging ones are skin cancer especially melonoma which is a severe type of skin cancer and the treatment is also stringent and strong enough that could either have serious side effects ,even the patient won't be able to survive because of the serious nature of melonomas.