Given increasing awareness of the link between diet and health, many patients are concerned that dietary factors may trigger dermatitis. Research has found that dietary factors can indeed exacerbate atopic dermatitis or cause dermatitis due to systemic contact dermatitis. In atopic dermatitis, dietary factors are more likely to cause an exacerbation among infants or children with moderate-to-se...

The clinical picture of eczema as it appears in infants and young children is sufficiently characteristic to be readily recognized. The earliest lesions consist of minute, pale pink papulo-vesicles which erupt in small groups and at first are set in non-inflamed skin, although the pale pink background soon appears. The eruption is usually symmetrical and in infants most commonly first arises on...

INTRODUCTION Skin diseases are common among school children worldwide. However, limited information is available about the socioeconomic correlates that contribute to their development among school children in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). OBJECTIVES to identify the prevalent transmissible and non-transmissible skin disorders among male primary school children in Al Hassa, KSA, and to de...

The Bajau Laut people are sea gypsies, who stateless and marginalized populations. A young boy was brought to an outreach clinic with symptoms of body itchiness. He has 3 other siblings also have the similar symptom. Clinically, rash extensive erythematous papules, excoriations eczematous features involving trunk, thighs, buttocks, genitalia, bilateral feet giving diagnosis scabies. prescribed ...

Vol. 26, No. 6, 2014 789 Received November 14, 2013, Revised February 25, 2014, Accepted for publication March 14, 2014 Corresponding author: Hyun Jeong Park, Department of Dermatology, Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 10 63-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 150-713, Korea. Tel: 82-2-3779-1391, Fax: 82-2-783-7604, E-mail: hjpark@ catholic.ac.kr This i...