Skin Related Diseases are a Common Human Health Problem

The Problem

Skin is our largest organ. Its protects us from microbes, helps regulates body temperature, and enable touch sensation. When the skin becomes inflammed or injuried the first sign of a problem is skin redness. As the skin condition heals or worsens over time, the degree of skin redness changes back to the normal skin tone or produces hyperpigmentation. Skin redness, the early sign of skin inflammation, is visually and manually identified and monitored. This is manual and unreliable. This makes it difficult to accurately assess risk, identify the condition, and monitor healing progression. On darker skin tones this problem is more pronounced as the skin redness can not be visually or manually identified.