4. Medical History
Your family history and personal medical history plays a significant role in establishing your risk profile for developing seborrheic keratosis. If other individuals in your family suffer from this skin disorder, there’s a high chance that you have the same risk. Check with your parents and grandparents, as well as extended family members, such as aunts, uncles, and cousins, to see if any of them are dealing with seborrheic keratosis lesions.
When visiting a doctor for diagnosis of the condition, the physician will take a comprehensive medical history from you, and assess your risk profile for developing seborrheic keratosis. It’s important to mention any other family members who are suffering from this skin disorder. Sometimes parents may not pass on the genes for the disease to their children, and it skips a generation.
Your doctor will examine your skin and give you an accurate diagnosis, as well as treatment options if they discover any seborrheic keratosis lesions.