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

A black pigmentation of the nail – Melanonychia

Pyogenic granuloma

Impetigo

Nevus sebaceous

Brown recluse spider bites in children and adults

Jellyfish stings in children and adults

Pediatric hemangioma

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

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

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

Bacterial skin infections

Baby’s nails

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

How many nipples does a child have?

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

Hair tourniquet in babies

Diaper rash or diaper dermatitis?

Guttate Psoriasis in Children

Spider angiomas in children

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

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

Café Au Lait Spots

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

Angular cheilitis in children

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

A Skin Lesion in Infants –Nevus Flammeus Simplex

Uncombable hair syndrome

Cutis marmorata

Recurrent skin infections

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

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

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

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

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

Dry skin and rash around the mouth

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

Seborrhea in infants and children

Freckles and lentigo

Mongolian blue spots

Baby’s acne

Chickenpox (Varicella)

Alopecia areata in children

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Atopic dermatitis in children

Phytophotodermatitis – a phototoxic skin reaction

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

Carotenemia – the orange baby