History: A seven-month-old, developmentally normal girl – born at term with birth weight of 2.5 kg to a nonconsanguineously married couple – presented with fever and rash for 11⁄2 months. The illness started with generalized erythematous, maculopapular rash involving the flexural areas, scalp and trunk, along with intermittent fever. The rash subsided over 15 days leaving behind a dry, scaly sk...

Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted in urban areas by Aedes aegypti. After an incubation period of 2 to 7 days, dengue fever begins with abrupt onset of fever, chills and headache. A transient macular rash may also be observed which usually resolves spontaneously. Complications of dengue fever are common and usually related to renal and hepatic dysfunction1,2. Encephalopathy and encep...

Sweet syndrome (SS) is a rare dermatosis of unknown etiology. It characterized by fever, neutrophilia, raised and painful plaques on the skin face, neck, limbs, histologically dermal infiltration neutrophils. Here, we present ten-year-old boy who presented with fever multiple lesions for 15 days. On examination, he was febrile nodular, tender, erythematous rash face limbs. Laboratory findings r...

A child watches as a worker fumigates to prevent dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases,

Previous History.?It appears that a month before admission to the hospital the child had had an attack of high fever with cough and dyspncea which lasted for a fortnight. After the subsidence of the fever and the other signs of the disease, the mother of the child noticed a small swelling on the left side of the back, and it began to increase to its present size. The only trouble the child had ...

Most children with prolonged, recurrent, or periodic fever are healthy and have self-limited, common illnesses, and the primary care practitioner usually can reassure families and continue to reassess the patient as circumstances dictate. For a child with true fever of unknown origin, a pediatric infectious diseases subspecialist should be consulted. This article discusses three objectives for ...

BackgroundUrinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common bacterial infections among children, and it can have serious consequences including renal failure. Triage nurses at general practice (GP) co-operatives play an important role in identifying UTI in young children, but diagnosis is difficult because the symptoms tend to be nonspecific. Aim The aim of this study was to determine wha...