Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of dandruff and plaques.
Family History
- What is the general health of your relatives?
- Are there any diseases in your family that are common?
- Are there any hereditary diseases in your family?
Social history
- What is your profession?
- Is there any evidence of psychosocial stress or strain due to your family situation?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- How long have you been suffering from symptomatology?
- Did the change occur suddenly or did it develop over a long period of time?
- Does the scaling affect the whole body or only individual areas? Does the scaling occur plate-like / patchy (plaques)?
- Are the edges of the scaling sharply defined?
- Have you noticed any other symptoms such as redness of the skin, itching or the like?
- Do you have any other symptoms outside of the skin (e.g. joint pain)?
Vegetative anamnesis incl. nutritional anamnesis.
Self anamnesis incl. medication anamnesis
- Previous diseases (skin diseases)
- Operations
- Radiotherapy
- Vaccination status
- Allergies
- Pregnancies
- Environmental history
- Medication history
Medication history*
- ACE inhibitors – drugs used especially in the therapy of high blood pressure (hypertension) and chronic heart failure.
- Antibiotics
- Tetracyclines
- Beta-blockers – drugs used to treat cardiac arrhythmias as well as hypertension.
- Quinidine – antiarrhythmic drug used for atrial fibrillation, extrasystoles and ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
- Chloroquine – drug for therapy and prophylaxis of malaria tertiana and malaria quartana.
- Lithium – drug for the therapy of bipolar disorder, mania or depression.
* Type IV allergy (allergic late-type reaction)/Lichen ruber-like or psoriasiform drug exanthema.
