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

Atopic dermatitis in children

Scarlet fever (Scarlatina)

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

Nevus sebaceous

Baby’s nails

Seborrhea in infants and children

Paronychia – an infection of the nail bed

Dry skin and rash around the mouth

Jellyfish stings in children and adults

How many nipples does a child have?

Molluscum contagiosum (viral warts)

Phytophotodermatitis – a phototoxic skin reaction

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

Recurrent skin infections

Bullous Impetigo – everything you need to know

Brown recluse spider bites in children and adults

Freckles and lentigo

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

Impetigo

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

Uncombable hair syndrome

Guttate Psoriasis in Children

Herpetic skin infection (herpes gladiatorum)

Herpetic infection after circumcision with direct suction

Café Au Lait Spots

Hair tourniquet in babies

Angular cheilitis in children

Baby’s acne

Chickenpox (Varicella)

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

Pediatric hemangioma

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

Herpes labialis (cold sore or fever blister)

A black pigmentation of the nail – Melanonychia

Pyogenic granuloma

Cutis marmorata

Everything you need to know about carbuncle skin infections

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

Diaper rash or diaper dermatitis?

Bacterial skin infections

A Skin Lesion in Infants –Nevus Flammeus Simplex

Mongolian blue spots

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

Carotenemia – the orange baby