Can Gulf Wer Verterans Get Service Connection For Skin Disorders

Many Gulf War veterans who experienced exposure to chemic hazards and environmental hazards while on active duty are now suffering through devastating skin conditions. These peel conditions can be attributed to exposures while serving agile duty. It is also possible for some veterans to experience effects of their skin conditions even after their time in the military machine has concluded complicating matters fifty-fifty further for the veteran.

Establishing Direct Service Connectedness for Skin Atmospheric condition

The Department of Veterans Affairs provides service-connected disability compensation to veterans who were harmed in service in some way and now take a diagnosable disability. To prove that a veteran'southward skin condition was directly acquired past military service and service-connected, the veteran would demand to show the following 3 criteria to take a risk at a successful VA disability claim:

a current diagnosis of a skin condition or lesions
evidence of an incident in service that led to a skin condition or disfigurement in the exposed areas
medical evidence (a physician's opinion) connecting the electric current skin condition to the incident in service.

VA Disability ratings for Chloracne and Presumptive Service Connexion for Agent Orange exposure

Veterans who served in Vietnam and were exposed to Agent Orange and developed chloracne within the by 12-month period of exposure to Agent Orange or herbicides may exist eligible for disability benefits for their pare condition through presumptive service connection. Chloracne is rated based on how much of the face and cervix information technology affects and whether it is superficial or deep acne. Deep acne has more inflammation and visible infection, whereas superficial acne is less inflamed. Compensatory ratings are only assigned for deep acne. Ratings of 30% are available for deep acne only when it is on 40% or more of the veteran's face and neck.

Disability Ratings for Common Skin Conditions in Veterans

Skin conditions are rated with the use of the VA General rating formula. VA has appropriate diagnostic codes for various disability weather. This is what the VA uses to break down each disability rating and disability claim. The disabilities are broken down into unlike categories based on entire body areas has been impacted. TheVA rating schedule lists out all of the unlike types of peel conditions and their rating based on the severity of the status.

Eczema and Inflammatory Pare Diseases VA Ratings

Ratings for dermatitis or eczema are rated based on the healthcare needed and how often medication is needed to control outbreaks, the blazon of medication that is needed, and what per centum of the body is affected. For instance, if at to the lowest degree 5% of the entire body is afflicted, a ten% rating will be assigned. If 40% or more of your skin is afflicted, then a 60% rating is warranted.

The term eczema actually applies to a broad range of chronic peel disorders that involves inflammation and dysfunction of the epidermis. Eczema sufferers often experience scaly and itchy rashes, characterized past itching, cracking, oozing or bleeding. Veterans who suffer from eczema are oftentimes treated with drugs, like high-force corticosteroids and drugs acting on the immune system, which may have sure side effects. Sometimes topical medication or topical therapy may exist used.

VA Disability Ratings for Psoriasis

Psoriasis is a long-term skin problem that causes pare cells to grow too chop-chop. The VA diagnostic code for psoriasis is 7816 . Instead of taking weeks to attain the surface of the skin, new cells take only days, which results in thick, white, silver or scarlet patches of pare. Experts believe that psoriasis is caused past an overreaction of the immune system, causing inflammation and impairment on the skin which leads to flakes. Treatment typically includes immunosuppressive drug therapy

VA Disability Ratings for Scars and Disfigurement

Many veterans are eligible for service-connected disability compensation for scars related to injuries or illnesses sustained during military machine service such as scars from burns, surgery, and gunshot wounds. VA diagnostic codes for scars are between 7800 and 7805 with the appropriate diagnostic code adamant by underlying tissue impairment, the cause of the scarring, whether or non the scarring is unstable, etc. For more information, check out our blog on scars and VA ratings.

The percentage rating relates to the placement and size of the scar. The rating criteria for scars on areas of the body other than the head, face, or neck are commonly based on the size of the scar. Scars on the head, face, or neck are rated on peel loss and how many facial features accept experienced disfigurement. A expert instance would be if a veteran had a scar on his or her nose, only a 10% rating would exist assigned due to the modest area of the face being affected. Typically higher ratings are reserved for more severe symptoms of a service-connected disability.

Amanda Dejesus, Veterans' Advocate

Amanda DeJesus is a Claims Advocate for Loma and Ponton. She joined the Colina and Ponton family unit in September of 2014 as an Intake Specialist. She listened to each veteran respectfully and gave them the attention they deserved as she assisted them with the initial steps in our VA claim assistance process. It was then that she discovered her true passion, helping veterans, began. Amanda earned her Associates degree in Criminal Justice and hopes to use that knowledge, combined with her piece of work experience, to brand a difference.

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