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✔✔Single-use - ✔✔Also known as disposable; items that cannot be used more than
once. These items cannot be properly cleaned so that all visible residue is removed -
such as pumice stones used for pedicures - or they are damaged or contaminated by
cleaning and disinfecting.
✔✔Porous - ✔✔(adj.) Full of tiny holes; able to be penetrated by air or water
✔✔Cross contamination - ✔✔occurs when you, the esthetician, touch an object or
product with the same hand or utensil
✔✔Aseptic procedures - ✔✔The process of properly handling sterilize and disinfected
equipment and supplies to reduce contamination.
✔✔BSI (Body Substance Isolation) - ✔✔Assumes that all substances are infectious,
procedures are set by OSHA and local policy. Developed in 1987.
✔✔PPE (personal protective equipment) - ✔✔Is to be worn for contact with all body
fluids, even if blood is not visible.
✔✔Standard precautions (SP) - ✔✔Precautions such as wearing personal protective
equipment to prevent skin and mucous membranes where contact with the client's
blood, body fluids, secretions (except sweat), excretions, non-intact skin, breast milk
and mucous membranes is likely. Workers must assume that all blood and body fluids
are potential sources of infection, regardless of the perceived risk.
✔✔Mycobacterium fortuitum - ✔✔A microscopic germ that normally exists in tap water
in small numbers.
✔✔Methicillin - ✔✔Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) type of infectious bacteria
that is highly resistant to conventional treatments such as antibiotics.
✔✔Motility - ✔✔Self-movement
✔✔Active stage - ✔✔During this stage bacteria grow and reproduce. (When they reach
their largest size they divide into new cells. Division is called binary fusion.
✔✔Inactive - ✔✔Spore-forming stage
✔✔Season for pink eye - ✔✔Winter
, ✔✔Acne - ✔✔A chronic inflammatory skin disorder of the sebaceous glands
characterized by comedones and blemishes; commonly known as acne simplex or acne
vulgaris
✔✔Acne excoriee - ✔✔Disorder where clients purposely scrape off acne lesions,
causing scarring and discoloration
✔✔Atopic dematitis - ✔✔A chronic, relapsing form of dermatitis (atopic is "excess
inflammation from allergies.") and allergens trigger reactions that include dry, cracking
skin.
✔✔Eczema - ✔✔An inflammatory, painful, itching disease of the skin; acute or chronic
in nature with dry or moist lesions. This should be referred to a physician. Avoid contact
and skin care treatments if a client has eczema. Seborrheic dermatitis is a common
form of eczema as well as sebaceuos gland disorder; characterized by scaling around
the nose, ears, scalp, eyebrows and mid-chest areas. This flaking mainly affects oilier
areas.
✔✔Erythema - ✔✔Redness caused by inflammation
✔✔Folliculitis - ✔✔Hair grows under the surface instead of growing up and out of the
follicle, causing a bacterial infection. Common in men, usually from shaving. (referred to
as barbae folliculitis, folliculitis barbae, or barber's itch.) Pseudofolliculitis, also known as
razor bumps, resembles folliculitis without pus or infection.
✔✔Pruitis - ✔✔Medical term for itching; persisting itching
✔✔Psoriasis - ✔✔An itchy skin disease characterized by red patches covered with
white-silver scales; caused by an over-proliferation of skin cells that replicate too fast.
✔✔Urticaria - ✔✔Also known as hives. An allergic reaction by the body's histamine
production.
✔✔Verruca - ✔✔Also known as wart. A hypertrophy of the papillae and epidermis
caused by a virus. Infectious and contagious, verrucas can be spread.
✔✔Bulla - ✔✔Large blister containing a watery fluid; similar to a vesicle but larger.
✔✔Carbuncle - ✔✔Cluster of boils; large inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue
caused by staphylococci bacterium; similar to a furuncle (boil) but larger.
✔✔Crust - ✔✔An accumulation of sebum and pus, sometimes mixed with epidermal
material, formed by dead cells over a wound or blemish while it is healing.