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- Title
Common causes of itching in children.
- Authors
Watkins, Jean
- Abstract
The article focuses on problems associated with skin disease and discusses specific features of causative problems and their management. Topics discussed include the need to assess general condition of the patient to exclude problems like hyperthyroidism or jaundice, eczema as an inflammatory condition of the skin and the diagnosis made in patients who itch, have dry skin and episodes of itchy, inflamed dry rash and acute uricaria presented with itchy white or red raised weals in the epidermis.
- Subjects
CHICKENPOX treatment; TREATMENT of contact dermatitis; THERAPEUTIC use of glucocorticoids; DERMATOLOGIC agents; ANTIFUNGAL agents; ANTIHISTAMINES; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATOPIC dermatitis; CHICKENPOX; COMMUNICABLE diseases; CONTACT dermatitis; ITCHING; MEDICAL history taking; OXYURIASIS; PEDICULOSIS; PHYSICAL diagnosis; RINGWORM; SCABIES; SKIN diseases; STAPHYLOCOCCAL diseases; STREPTOCOCCAL diseases; URTICARIA; DISEASE complications; SYMPTOMS; CHILDREN; DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Practice Nursing, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 7, p345
- ISSN
0964-9271
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12968/pnur.2015.26.7.345