Bateman's Purpura
Abby Herman
1st Period
Pictures
Common Victims
- Men and women effected equally
- Fair skin complexion
- Over age of 50
- People with sun damaged skin
Bateman's Purpura
Treatment and
prevention
Scientific name: Actinic purpra
- Stay protected from the sun
- Daily application of vitamin K cream
- Cosmetics
- Cover up lesions and bruises
- Alpha hydroxyacid lotion
- Thickens skin
Causes and Symptoms
- Flat, purple lesions that appear most often on the hands and forearms
- Also can appear in mucus membranes such as in the mouth and other internal organs
- Appear after minor traumas
- Thin/wrinkly skin
- Purple bruises/lesions
- Flat or irregular skin
- Sun Damage
- damages blood vessels under skin
- Alchol/Aspirin
- thins blood
Work Cited
- http://www.skinsite.com/info_bateman_s_purpura.htm
- http://www.disabled-world.com/health/dermatology/skin/bruising-limbs.php
Pictures Cited
- http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Solar_elastosis_-_high_mag.jpg/230px-Solar_elastosis_-_high_mag.jpg
- http://www.geocities.ws/greykittie1/batemans_20purpura.gif
- http://www.healthinset.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Senile-Purpura-Picture.jpg