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Gianotti–Crosti syndrome mainly affects infants and young children.Children as young as 1.5 months and up to 12 years of age are reported to be affected. [9] It is generally recognized as a papular or papulovesicular skin rash occurring mainly on the face and distal aspects of the four limbs.
The symptoms of scabies are due to an allergic reaction to the mites. [2] Often, only between 10 and 15 mites are involved in an infection. [2] Scabies most often spreads during a relatively long period of direct skin contact with an infected person (at least 10 minutes) such as that which may occur during sexual activity or living together.
Children often have scabies worse than adults. “Scabies can affect the entire body, including the palms, soles, and scalp. Infants and children who have scabies may be tired and irritable from ...
Symptoms: Itchiness, red skin, rash [1] Complications: Skin infection [2] Causes: Atopic dermatitis, allergic contact dermatitis, irritant contact dermatitis, seborrhoeic dermatitis, stasis dermatitis [1] [2] Diagnostic method: Based on symptom [1] Differential diagnosis: Scabies, psoriasis, dermatitis herpetiformis, lichen simplex chronicus [3 ...
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The scabies mite Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis goes through four stages in its lifecycle: egg, larva, nymph, and adult. Upon infesting a human host, the adult female burrows into the stratum corneum (outermost layer of skin), where she deposits two or three eggs per day. These oval eggs are 0.1–0.15 mm (0.0039–0.0059 in) long and hatch as ...
Symptoms: Itchy blisters on the palms of the hands, sides of fingers, or bottoms of the feet [7] Complications: skin thickening [7] Usual onset: Often recurrent [8] Duration: Heal over 3 weeks [7] [8] Causes: Unknown [8] Diagnostic method: Based on symptoms [8] Differential diagnosis: Pustular psoriasis, scabies [7] Treatment
Dermatitis herpetiformis may be misdiagnosed as drug eruptions, contact dermatitis, dishydrotic eczema (dyshidrosis), or scabies. [citation needed] Other diagnoses in the differential diagnosis include bug bites and other blistering conditions such as bullous pemphigoid, linear IgA bullous dermatosis, and bullous systemic lupus erythematosus.