The Bike Doc 250+
Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1398 Location: Corpus Christi and Warda, Texas
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Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2003 3:57 pm GMT +0000 Post subject: |
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Adv Sheila:
The darkening may be a "tattoo" effect from the absorbed blood and hemaglobin pigment darkening the underlying skin cells that give you the color of you skin (melanocytes). If you abraded the skin it is also possible some of the fine dirt was absorbed by the underlying skin and caused a tattoo. If there is increasing pigmentation changes, then I would be worried there is something else is going on and an evaluation by a dermatologist would be in order.
Thanks, _________________ Paul K. Nolan, MD
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