For example, yellowish skin- a sure sign of liver disease, and numerous acne rashes indicate either a hormonal imbalance or problems with the intestines.
And what disease causes the hands and the rest of the skin to look pale? And does a pale face always indicate illness? Let's try to figure out what disease causes human skin to turn pale.
If, in addition to pale skin, there are symptoms such as low blood pressure, fatigue, irritability, then it is quite possible to assume the presence of iron deficiency anemia. Of course, an accurate diagnosis can only be made through a blood test. Anemia is a common disease, especially among young girls and women of childbearing age. And, quite often, the cause of the disease is adherence to a strict diet. Pale skin appears due to insufficient filling of blood vessels located close to the surface of the skin, as well as a low level of hemoglobin. Patients are troubled by shortness of breath, they are constantly cold, their hands and feet are especially cold. Anemia is a serious disease; if you suspect this diagnosis, you need to contact a clinic, and also significantly reconsider your diet, you need to consume more iron. The doctor will probably prescribe iron-containing drugs, as well as B vitamins and folic acid. In addition to medications, you should eat more foods containing iron - meat, liver, eggs. From plant products– beans, peas, broccoli, spinach. However, iron from plant foods is less absorbed, so you need to take additional vitamin C, or eat citrus fruits, drink.
Directly depends from its blood supply. Knowing this fact, you can easily determine which disease causes a person’s skin to turn pale. For example, the pallor of the left hand indicates weak heart function.
But it's not just low hemoglobin levels that can cause pale skin. In kidney diseases, especially chronic ones, pallor is caused by vasoconstriction, especially small capillaries, and swelling. If a patient has glomerulonephritis, the skin will be swollen and pale, although anemia may not be detected. In severe cases of this disease, a slight jaundice is added to the dryness and pallor of the skin. Also, with chronic inflammatory kidney diseases, bruises form on pale skin in the absence of external causes. Fatigue, poor appetite, general weakness also appear, sometimes the temperature rises, this indicates the presence of an inflammatory process. For chronic renal failure, blood pressure is always elevated. Under no circumstances should kidney disease be neglected. The earlier treatment is started, the greater the chance of recovery. Lack of treatment can lead to necrosis of the kidney, after which the only way of salvation will be an organ transplant.
Pale skin may indicate heart failure. Often mealy pallor occurs during an attack of angina pectoris. At this time, the patient is bothered by pain, which can radiate to the neck, arm, or less often to the back. Sometimes there is also a feeling of tightness and burning. The patient's body temperature decreases, breathing becomes intermittent. At the first stage, myocardial infarction occurs with the same symptoms. The difference is that an angina attack passes quickly enough, but with a heart attack the patient’s condition continues to deteriorate. Therefore, when the first pain in the heart appears, especially accompanied by pallor, rapid breathing and heartbeat, you must immediately call an ambulance.
Pale skin may also indicate this serious illness How peptic ulcer stomach or duodenum. These ailments are often accompanied by internal bleeding. Additional symptoms include dizziness, weakness, “fog” before the eyes or “flickering spots”. Internal bleeding is characterized by bloody vomiting and black loose stools. This is a serious illness that requires immediate hospitalization.
Hormonal imbalances also affect the condition of the skin. Pale, clammy skin is characteristic of patients diabetes mellitus. In patients with hypothyroidism (decreased thyroid function), the skin becomes dry, pale, cold to the touch, and swollen.
Pallor is a common symptom of various infectious diseases . In particular, pulmonary tuberculosis. Patients with tuberculosis usually lose a lot of weight, their facial features become sharper, their facial skin becomes milky white, only there may be an unnaturally bright blush on their cheeks. In 19th-century literature there is even the epithet “consumptive pallor,” which describes an unhealthy complexion.
Pallor may occur and after recovery from any infectious disease, but this condition will not last long, until the end of the recovery period.
Of course, pale facial skin does not always indicate such serious diseases as described above. Often a person looks pale after being in the cold for a long time. In this case, the blood is redirected to internal organs and the skin turns pale.
People look pale who lack physical activity. Their hearts work at a lower intensity than those who move a lot. In addition, physically active people have more red blood cells in their blood, which are responsible for transporting oxygen to tissues and organs. Thus, in people who neglect physical education, the body suffers from a lack of oxygen.
In addition, other factors that can be combined under the general name unhealthy lifestyle influence skin color. This can be a variety of stress, and poor ecology. As well as bad habits - smoking and drinking alcohol. These factors are not limited to their influence solely on the skin; all unhealthy habits undermine the human body, causing various diseases.
One of the unique and unlike other films that leaves behind an ambivalent feeling.
But this is the kind of film that you will think about the next day, and the whole next week, and it is very likely that you will periodically remember it later, perhaps during difficult periods of your life.
I’m not saying that you will definitely like it, but I can practically guarantee that it will be remembered.
It is stated primarily in the fantasy genre, and, indeed, this seems logical, but only for superficial viewing. Those who like the film, like me, and who want to penetrate into its essence, will classify it first of all in the category of psychological dramas, and having classified it there, they will probably already put it, if not in first place, then definitely in the first row.
Let's analyze it a little, because it is more than worth it.
The first and most important thing that attention is drawn to is a very rich storyline, filled with numerous exciting events and populated by completely different and sometimes incredible characters.
To be more precise, the film has two storylines, or, to be absolutely precise, one and a half the world of reality and a fantasy land, which is the figment of the imagination of a little girl the main character of the film which is an application to the harsh reality in which this girl lives little princess, and where she runs away, unable to bear her existence in the real world.
The film takes place in Franco's Spain during World War II. The mother of the main character remarries Captain Vidal, who is conducting punitive operations against the rebels resisting the established Franco regime. In fact, this represents a cleansing of dissent by well-armed and organized internal troops. The rebels, in turn, are waging a guerrilla war not without the support of a sympathetic local population, among whom there are many who disagree and hate (not without reason, as we know) the current regime.
Captain Vidal, the hero of the impressive Sergi Lopez, is an almost completely negative character without any sentimentality or any hint of humanity. The undisguised cruelty that this hero demonstrates is shown in the film somewhat demonstratively and loudly, but here we can make allowances for the temperament of the creators and actors - the Spaniards are not indifferent.
Captain Vidal is as cruel to others as he is to himself. This is a man of war and only war. He is lost (or maybe never existed) for ordinary human life, in which love, mercy, and sympathy are always present.
The mother of the main character is an unremarkable character, for me she almost immediately moved to the rank of extras, with the only question to which I could not find an answer - why did you have to marry this monster? Moreover, by taking such a step, she doomed not only herself, but also her little daughter, whose future she had to think about first of all, to the unenviable fate of being a hostage to a ruthless and indifferent beast.
The main character of the film, brilliantly played by Ivana Bakero, is the star of the entire film. You really sympathize with her and really worry about her, her wonderful performance is so touching and the situation of her heroine is so difficult, which does not correspond to her young age.
At ten years old, she witnesses horrors and cruelties that even the brain of an adult is unable to perceive calmly. What can we say about a little man who is just starting to live and immediately encounters characters like Captain Vidal.
In an effort to escape from the cruelty that surrounds her, she creates a fantasy world, and this world in most cases seems very real, which makes it possible to doubt whether it was actually completely invented by the main character, or whether it still exists. Amazing fairy-tale characters come to the main character’s room, from there doors open into mysterious and dangerous corridors inhabited by strange and creepy characters, and an old tree not far from the house turns out to be drying up due to a monster living in its roots.
The mysterious world exists, as it were, in parallel with reality, but from time to time it not only comes into contact with it, but tangibly and poignantly intersects with it, which puts the main character in a difficult and dangerous position - for example, when she tries to save her mother with the help of magic or in final scene with little brother.
Such construction of the plot around these two realities, the creation of a kind of looking glass in which fiction is intertwined with reality, and fairy-tale heroes with real heroes, gives the viewer the freedom to find a way out of this tangled labyrinth of the Faun.
Around the little girl with her fantasies, dramatic military actions unfold, shown in the film in detail, making the heart clench from a corrosive cocktail of disgust at the crimes being committed and human cruelty, sympathy for the courage and fearlessness of the rebels, fear and despair.
Maybe that’s why the main character’s fantasies are not cloudless, and her fairy tale is not inferior in its severity to the surrounding reality. Maybe monsters whose existence can be accepted in an imaginary world have penetrated the world of people and are pursuing their cruel policies here.
Maybe the fantasies of a little princess, where it’s scary, hard, but where she can fight, where she finds friends, and where together they are able to give evil a worthy rebuff this is just a reflection of reality, but where she is powerless to change anything, despite all her strength and the purity of their souls and where monsters, but in human form, continue to commit their atrocities with impunity.
In fact, the film is another example of escapism - the creation of a parallel reality, like Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, with the difference that in the latter this fictional reality actually replaces the actual reality, but here the fictional reality is secondary and is shown in contrast with real life, which in terms of the drama of what is happening surpasses all conceivable and unimaginable fantasies.
I don’t want to focus on the disadvantages in the form of undeveloped or naivety of some scenes, as well as some disadvantages of the acting this is not so serious and does not blur the main impression of the film.
I advise you to watch this wonderful work where fiction and reality, good and evil, vices and virtues are so beautifully intertwined. And yet, I somehow unexpectedly remembered this film, looking at Bosch’s canvas, the temptation of St., incredible in its power and depth, and fascinating with its almost tangible mysticism. Antonia this film has something subtly similar to this stunning triptych.
Well, you probably guessed it yourself.
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The most common cause of pale skin is anemia. If a person is constantly pale, has low blood pressure, increased fatigue and irritability, and his hands and feet are constantly cold, this may indicate the presence of iron deficiency anemia. With this disease, the level of hemoglobin in red blood cells and the capillaries under the skin are not sufficiently filled with blood. Anemia is often present in people who are addicted to diets and is caused by insufficient iron content in food.
Pale skin can also occur with heart failure. For angina pectoris (“ angina pectoris", varieties coronary disease) there is insufficient blood circulation in the heart muscle. Against the background of pallor of the skin, pressure appears in the area of the heart, pain radiating to the left hand, neck and even in the back.
With angina, pain occurs against the background of good health after physical activity (running, climbing stairs), excessive emotions (positive and negative), after a hearty lunch, while walking in cold weather. The attack lasts up to 10 minutes and goes away with rest or taking medication (nitroglycerin).
If, along with pallor, pain occurs that is not associated with physical activity, and the attack lasts more than 15 minutes, then myocardial infarction may develop.
Paleness also accompanies vegetative-vascular. Dystonia is also characterized by dizziness, increased fatigue, hot flashes, changes in body temperature, arrhythmia, chest pain, constantly cold hands and feet, sweating, reaction to changing weather, etc.
Pale skin is also a symptom of hypothyroidism (lack of thyroid hormones). Hypothyroidism can be accompanied by anemia, which results in pallor with a yellowish tint. Hypothyroidism anemia occurs due to poor absorption of iron in the intestine.
Pale skin accompanies tuberculosis. There is even such a term in the literature as “consumptive pallor.” With tuberculosis, there is a sharp decrease in body weight, cough, expectoration of blood, an evening increase in body temperature up to 38 degrees and severe.
Unusual poverty may be a symptom (of leukemia). In addition to pallor with leukemia, bruises appear on the skin from the slightest touch, blue circles appear under the eyes, the person is constantly weak, lethargic, and drowsy.
