Facial rashes.

Common rashes in neonates.

BACKGROUND Neonatal skin is structurally unique. Dermatological diseases in neonates are commonly benign and self limiting, but they may also herald underlying systemic disease and can be life threatening. OBJECTIVE This article examines neonatal dermatoses according to various clinical presentations. Clinical clues helping to differentiate serious and benign conditions are outlined, together...

Common Skin Rashes in Children.

Because childhood rashes may be difficult to differentiate by appearance alone, it is important to consider the entire clinical presentation to help make the appropriate diagnosis. Considerations include the appearance and location of the rash; the clinical course; and associated symptoms, such as pruritus or fever. A fever is likely to occur with roseola, erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), ...

Febrile Illness with Skin Rashes

Skin rashes that appear during febrile illnesses are in fact caused by various infectious diseases. Since infectious exanthematous diseases range from mild infections that disappear naturally to severe infectious diseases, focus on and basic knowledge of these diseases is very important. But, these include non-infectious diseases, so that comprehensive knowledge of these other diseases is requi...

Secondary Rashes in Scarlet Fever

Secondary rashes during the convalescent stage ot scarlet fever are by no means of uncommon occurrence. They are not to be confounded with the true relapse in which the patient passes again through the stages of vomiting, sore-throat, strawberry tongue, rash, and desquamation. Such relapses are said to occur as frequently as once in every two hundred cases, are most common during the second or ...

Pathogenesis of rashes in virus diseases.