1. These listings are only examples of common skin disorders that we consider severe
enough to result in marked and severe functional limitations. For most of these listings,
if you do not have continuing treatment as prescribed, if your treatment has not lasted
for at least 3 months, or if you do not have extensive skin lesions that have persisted
for at least 3 months, your impairment cannot meet the requirements of these skin
disorder listings. (This provision does not apply to 108.07 and 108.08.) However,
we may still find that you are disabled because your impairment(s) meets the requirements
of a listing in another body system, medically equals (see §§ 404.1526 and 416.926
of this chapter) the severity of a listing, or functionally equals the severity of
the listings.
2. If you have not received ongoing treatment or do not have an ongoing relationship
with the medical community despite the existence of a severe impairment(s), or if
your skin lesions have not persisted for at least 3 months but you are undergoing
continuing treatment as prescribed, you may still have an impairment(s) that meets
a listing in another body system or that medically equals a listing. If you do not
have an impairment(s) that meets or medically equals a listing, we will consider whether
your impairment(s) functionally equals the listings. (See § 416.924 of this chapter.)
When we decide whether you continue to be disabled, we use the rules in § 416.994a
of this chapter.
108.01 Category of Impairments, Skin Disorders
108.02 Ichthyosis, with extensive skin lesions that persist for at least 3 months despite continuing
treatment as prescribed.
108.03 Bullous disease (for example, pemphigus, erythema multiforme bullosum, epidermolysis bullosa, bullous
pemphigoid, dermatitis herpetiformis), with extensive skin lesions that persist for
at least 3 months despite continuing treatment as prescribed.
108.04 Chronic infections of the skin or mucous membranes, with extensive fungating or extensive ulcerating skin lesions that persist for at
least 3 months despite continuing treatment as prescribed.
108.05 Dermatitis (for example, psoriasis, dyshidrosis, atopic dermatitis, exfoliative dermatitis,
allergic contact dermatitis), with extensive skin lesions that persist for at least
3 months despite continuing treatment as prescribed.
108.06 Hidradenitis suppurativa, with extensive skin lesions involving both axillae, both inguinal areas, or the
perineum that persist for at least 3 months despite continuing treatment as prescribed.
108.07 Genetic photosensitivity disorders, established as described in 108.00E.
A. Xeroderma pigmentosum. Consider the individual disabled from birth.
B. Other genetic photosensitivity disorders, with:
1. Extensive skin lesions that have lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous
period of at least 12 months,
OR
2. Inability to function outside of a highly protective environment for a continuous
period of at least 12 months (see 108.00E.2.).
108.08 Burns, with extensive skin lesions that have lasted or can be expected to last for a continuous
period of at least 12 months. (See 108.00F).