Dermatology

Dermatology is one of the main branches in pediatrics, and one of the major reasons for referral to your general pediatrician.

I hope this chapter will help you in many of these core medical conditions is pediatrics.   

Chapters of pediatric dermatology

Freckles and lentigo

Phytophotodermatitis – a phototoxic skin reaction

Bacterial skin infections

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

Hair tourniquet in babies

Jellyfish stings in children and adults

Angular cheilitis in children

Café Au Lait Spots

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

Carotenemia – the orange baby

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Everything you need to know about moles (beauty marks) in children

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

A Skin Lesion in Infants –Nevus Flammeus Simplex

Bites in children (mostly mosquitos some insects and a few bees)

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

Recurrent skin infections

Cutis marmorata

Everything you need to know about sun fungus (pityriasis versicolor) in children and adults

Impetigo

Seborrhea in infants and children

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

Everything you need to know about recurrent aphthous stomatitis (canker sores) in children (and adults)

Atopic dermatitis in children

Baby’s nails

Nevus sebaceous

Brown recluse spider bites in children and adults

Pediatric hemangioma

Mongolian blue spots

Pyogenic granuloma

Guttate Psoriasis in Children

Sunscreen for children – how to pick one and how to apply it

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

Baby’s acne

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

The use of sunscreen in children – what for and why?

Milia – “milk spots” – a common rash in babies

Dry skin and rash around the mouth

Uncombable hair syndrome

How many nipples does a child have?

Diaper rash or diaper dermatitis?

Everything you need to know about insect bites near the eyes in children – what to do and what not to miss

A black pigmentation of the nail – Melanonychia