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Instead of a thousand forums – one site! Check your skin health online
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Is there an irritation of unknown origin on your skin? Has the child returned from kindergarten with suspicious rashes? But what if these are not irritations and rashes, but symptoms of a serious illness? We need to google … Is it necessary? Together with the creators of the information and reference portal CheckDerm Healthy Food Near Me finds out whether it is worth looking for the first dermatological help on the Internet.
More than 4 million inquiries * about skin problems are recorded on the Internet every month. Despite all the jokes about hypochondriacs, modern women understand that giving up the global information network is simply stupid. Data rules the world! But which is safer: Instagram, forums or specialized sites?
It is good if your local dermatologist loves his job, does not confuse vitiligo with pigmentation (sometimes it happens!) And takes it at a convenient time, but often everything is not so cloudless.
Then, instead of looking for a real professional, we start flipping through the forums and ask for advice from complete strangers. Will this practice lead to miraculous healing? Unlikely – and here’s why:
- The diagnosis of an “expert” based on your words and even on the basis of a photograph of the affected area of the skin is always made on the narrow personal experience of this completely stranger to you.
- Even if counselors have encountered something similar, they have not taken a course in dermatology, and therefore, with a high probability, they will not distinguish the symptoms of, for example, atopic dermatitis from urticaria.
- In the meantime, the skin begins to itch, the lesion is expanding, time is running out … And we continue to get nervous and smear ourselves with a cream recommended by a stranger from the Internet.
2. Site is different from site
Around the world, new generation medical portals are already emerging, created with the help of professional doctors, who set themselves the task of informing users about common diseases.
In Russia, one of the first projects of this kind was the CheckDerm.ru website, developed by leading specialists in the field of high technologies together with the team of the famous brand Fenistil, which is designed to help with itching and irritation on the skin ** caused by skin-allergic reactions. The CheckDerm online system is able to analyze in real time the photos uploaded by the user and determine which of the 6 recognized diseases can correspond to certain manifestations on the skin (urticaria, atopic dermatitis, chickenpox, rubella, coin-like eczema, measles). Additional services of the site will offer to study articles from experts on the topic of diseases of interest, get acquainted with the drugs of the Fenistil line, make an appointment with a doctor and get an online consultation with a specialist on partner sites. Using CheckDerm is very simple and will not take more than 5 minutes.
CheckDerm – instructions for use
Using the CheckDerm platform is very simple: you need to answer 8 clarifying questions and upload a photo of the affected skin area. The system will compare the results obtained with 2000 images of certain manifestations on the skin, diagnosed by experts. The result of the program’s work is an assumption about which of the 6 diseases the uploaded image can correspond to.
Note that CheckDerm does not diagnose, is not a medical service, and does not replace the consultation of a specialist.
With CheckDerm, you no longer need to spend hours looking for answers in unreliable sources. Check the health of your skin at CheckDerm.ru.
* Yandex.Wordstat, request “skin irritation” 01-31 / 08/2018
** Instructions for the medical use of Fenistil Gel, Fenistil Emulsion, Fenistil Drops.
RU P N011663 / 02 dated 01.04.2011
RU LP-000794 dated 03.10.2011
RU P N011663 / 01 dated 01.04.2011
CHRUS/CHFENI/0058/19a
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