what special problems would result from the loss of 50% of a person’s functional skin surface?
cjcc asked:
what special problems would result from the loss of 50% of a person’s functional skin surface? How might this person’s environment be modified to partially compensate for such a loss?
what special problems would result from the loss of 50% of a person’s functional skin surface? How might this person’s environment be modified to partially compensate for such a loss?
Big problem! As skin is our first line of defense against pathogens, losing 50% of a functional skin is very significant! Also Skin have pores with secrets sweat and glands secrets oil! Losing 50% of them will make a person feel rather dry and flaky..
Special Environment needed
1) Reasonably humid enviroment with a degree of water vapour saturation
2) The air in the room need to be as clean as possible ( I am not refering to clean room type of sterility), a normal purifier will be good.
3) The enviroment must be cool in the sense that it must be below room temperature. This is to compensate for the lose of pore and gland in the skin (lose of ability to secret sweat). Chin Seng