Dermatology News

A 5-year-old male presented to a dermatology clinic with a 4-month history of rash on the left cheek. The parents reported that they initially noted small bumps on his cheek that gradually expanded into a larger shape. They also noted some lightening of the background skin. The patient denied itch from the area and was otherwise well.

A 15-year-old male presents to your office with recurrent abscesses in both axillae for the last 8 months. The lesions begin as red bumps that go on to form abscesses that ultimately drain. The patient has been to other providers, mostly in EDs or urgent care clinics, who have performed incision and drainage on several prior occasions. Occasionally, oral antimicrobial therapy has been used without drainage, but the lesions soon reappear. The patient is somewhat obese but otherwise fairly healthy and is not sexually active. Interestingly, the patient’s sister and mother have had similar problems occurring in the groin over the years.

NEW YORK — While skin and soft tissue infections such as MRSA are decreasing around 3% annually, rates of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, clindamycin and Bactrim resistance are rising, according to a presentation at the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

Exclusive and prolonged breast-feeding during infancy can reduce the risk of eczema in teenagers, according to research published in JAMA Pediatrics.

NEW YORK – C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, discussed treating Staphylococcus aureus-related skin and soft tissue infections at the 2017 Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium.

Accurate diagnoses of pediatric dermatologic conditions may be made using photographs taken by parents on smartphones, according to recent findings.

Over the last 1 to 2 days, a 3-year-old female experienced a sudden onset of poor oral intake accompanied by blistering lesions on several of her fingers. By the next day, essentially all of the patient’s fingertips had become swollen and erythematous (Figure 1).

Mark Lebwohl

BOSTON — Although total immunoglobulin E levels were unrelated to severity of hospital stay, children experience increasingly intense hospital courses if they have a family history of asthma or prior pediatric eczema, according to a recent presentation at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology’s Annual Scientific Meeting.

Non-Hispanic black children are more likely to use ambulatory health care as well as to seek the care of a dermatologist for the treatment of eczema, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.