skin disorders
Ichthyosis
Introduction
Ichthyosis is scaling and flaking of the skin that ranges from mild but annoying dryness to severe and disfiguring skin disease. (See also Itching and Ichthyosis is a form of severe dry skin. Ichthyosis causes scale to form on the skin in excessive amounts. Scale is areas of heaped-up, dead skin cells that appear as flaky, dry, rough patches. Unlike Dry Skin (Xeroderma) , which is ordinary dry skin, ichthyosis is dry skin that results from an inherited disorder (called inherited ichthyosis) or from a number of other disorders or medications (called acquired ichthyosis). 