Juvenile diabetes mellitus masquerading as disseminated candidiasis.

Junvenile diabetes mellitus may present acutely as diabetic ketoacidosis or with a chronic history of polyuria, polydipsia and polyphagia. Uncommon presentations include unexplained fever and weight loss, abdominal pain and secondary enuresis. Pyogenic skin infections and monilial vaginitis in teenage girls and adults may be present at the time of diagnosis but are rarely the sole presenting feature(l,2). We present a case of diabetes mellitus in a ten year old boy who presented to us with candidiasis of the oropharynx, mucocutaneous junctions and urinary tract.