On the 18th (Friday) at 9:55 pm on EBS1 The episode is broadcast.
Our skin has various functions. In addition to the sensory function that allows us to detect when something touches or sticks to our body, it also performs an immune function that prevents external invasions such as viruses and molds and protects our body.
Our skin naturally ages over time and undergoes rapid aging three times at the ages of 35, 60, and 78. The aging skin barrier becomes weak and easily breaks down, causing geriatric skin diseases such as itching, pigmentation such as age spots or solar lentigo, wrinkles, and purpura.
However, even if you cannot turn back time, you can slow down skin aging. Let’s look at various skin diseases that occur due to aging and learn how to keep your skin healthy against aging.
Black dots on my body, solar black? blotch?
A woman in her 40s who is engaged in meeting people. Even in the middle of summer, she wears long sleeves and long pants and wraps her whole body tightly. If you are still young, you are young, but you already have countless black spots spread all over your body, including your limbs. There was a time when I was walking in shorts and people behind me said, “Look at your legs. As I heard people say, “Look at your legs,” I began to hide my skin more and more. There is also a woman in her 70s who is worried for similar reasons. My skin was clean until just 5 years ago, but the black spots began to increase in number and itchy symptoms began to appear. What happened to their skin? Are the black spots black or age spots? Let’s hear from a dermatologist about pigmentation in our skin and the reasons for it.
Why do we get itchy as we get older?
There is a symptom that everyone experiences at least once as they age: itching. A woman in her 70s couldn’t overcome the itchiness before going to bed at night, so she kept scratching her back, resulting in scars. On days when I scratched too hard, there were times when there was blood on the blanket. Another man in his 70s developed itchy skin after being diagnosed with diabetes, and after scratching it for a while, he was able to soothe it only after applying skin lotion. Why do I get such itchy symptoms unlike when I was younger? As you age, the function of the sebaceous glands decreases, producing less oil, and the ability of dead skin cells to regenerate decreases. This causes the skin to become dry and itchy. However, dry and itchy skin that has begun to age can be improved by taking care of it even now!
Senile skin disease in which wounds do not heal
A representative skin disease caused by aging is ‘senile purpura.’ Purpura is a disease that causes small purple spots to appear on the skin due to the outflow of red blood cells. It occurs in 10-12% of people over 65 years of age. In particular, as the skin and blood vessels become weaker and elasticity decreases due to aging in areas such as arms and legs that are exposed to a lot of sunlight, the skin easily bleeds even from a small impact. A Japanese man in his 80s, whose arms and legs were covered in severe wounds such as bruises, was also hospitalized with these symptoms. While cleaning the bathroom, I fell and bumped into a wound, and due to ‘senile purpura’, the inflammation worsened and the wound did not heal and the condition gradually worsened. Is skin recovery irreparable as we age? Let’s learn how to protect our body’s most important skin, our skin, in the age of 100.
Broadcast on EBS 1TV at 9:55 pm on Friday, October 18th In the ‘Protect the skin, the largest organ in our body’, we will learn about various skin diseases caused by aging and accurate ways to slow down skin aging.
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