Sensitive skin is a common problem, with 50% of women and 30% of men in Europe feel they have sensitive skin. A sensitive skin is characterized by the occurrence of tingling sensations, tightness, heat, burning, itching or pain triggered by non pathogenic factors such as wind, heat, cold, water , cosmetics, toiletries, stress...~The Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a physico-psychic method that uses gradients stimuli of different modalities to measure a subjective somatosensory response. This allows to characterize sensory dysfunction by assessing the participation of small and large nerve fibers.~The aim of this project is to characterize the presence or absence of a neurological disorder in patients with sensitive skin. This discovery would be a decisive argument to reinforce the suspicion that sensitive skins is linked to a small fiber neuropathy.
Sensitive skin is a common problem, with 50% of women and 30% of men in Europe feel they have sensitive skin.~The Quantitative sensory testing (QST) is a physico-psychic method that uses gradients stimuli of different modalities to measure a subjective somatosensory response. This allows to characterize sensory dysfunction by assessing the participation of small and large nerve fibers.~The aim of this project is to characterize the presence or absence of a neurological disorder in patients with sensitive skin. This discovery would be a decisive argument to reinforce the suspicion that sensitive skins is linked to a small fiber neuropathy.