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

Diaper rash or diaper dermatitis?

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

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

Dry skin and rash around the mouth

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Cutis marmorata

Recurrent skin infections

Baby’s acne

Angular cheilitis in children

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

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

A Skin Lesion in Infants –Nevus Flammeus Simplex

Pyogenic granuloma

Mongolian blue spots

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

Baby’s nails

Hair tourniquet in babies

Atopic dermatitis in children

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

How many nipples does a child have?

Spider angiomas in children

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Alopecia areata in children

Seborrhea in infants and children

Carotenemia – the orange baby

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

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

Brown recluse spider bites in children and adults

Jellyfish stings in children and adults

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

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

A black pigmentation of the nail – Melanonychia

Café Au Lait Spots

Impetigo

Phytophotodermatitis – a phototoxic skin reaction

Chickenpox (Varicella)

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

Uncombable hair syndrome

Freckles and lentigo

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

Nevus sebaceous

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

Pediatric hemangioma

Bacterial skin infections

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

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

Guttate Psoriasis in Children