Skin Infections- A Big Curse for Health

Skin infections are an important public health problem in our country. Most of the skin diseases can be attributed to bad personal hygiene of the persons. One of the reasons for this is, apart from ignorance, lack of adequate water for washing and bathing, particularly in the rural areas and urban slums. Skin infections may be due to- Bacterial infections, for example-boils, impetigo. Fungal infections, i.e, ringworm infections. Insect infestations, like-scabies. The normal skin harbors as commercialism. Some bacteria known as staphylococci and streptococci, though they are normally non-virulent .…