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Questions Your Doctor May Ask - and Why!
During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques in his assesment of the symptom: Cracked skin. These may include a physical examination or other medical tests. Your doctor may ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to remember that your consultation is a two-way process and any extra information you can share with your doctor may help them with their diagnosis.
Some of the questions your doctor may ask are listed below:
- How long have you had cracked skin?
Why: to determine if acute or chronic.
- Where on the body is the skin cracked?
Why: may assist in helping determine cause e.g. cracks between the toes may suggest tinea pedis; dry scaly cracked skin on legs of elderly especially in winter suggest asteatotic eczema; on heels suggest keratoderma climactericum; hands and wrists may suggest scabies; in flexures such as front of elbow and behind knee suggest dermatitis; on scalp may suggest psoriasis vulgaris.
- Have you had contact with another person with a similar skin eruption?
Why: may suggest scabies, tinea.
- Have you worn any new clothing recently?
- Have you been exposed to anything new lately?
Why: e.g. cosmetics, soaps, clothes detergent, foods.
- Do you have a past history of a similar skin eruption?
Why: may suggest atopic dermatitis (eczema).
- Do you have an allergic tendency?
Why: e.g. asthma, hay fever - may suggest atopic dermatitis (eczema).
- Medication?
Why: e.g. diuretics may predispose to asteatotic eczema.
- Family history of skin problems?
Why: e.g. atopic dermatitis (eczema).
Questions your doctor may ask about related symptoms:
Sometimes, other symptoms may be present and may help your doctor analyse your condition. These may include:
- Itchy skin?
Why: may suggest asteatotic eczema, tinea, scabies, dyshidrotic eczematous dermatitis (pompholyx), atopic detmatitis, contact dermatitis.
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