Pediatrics- Skin Infection Flashcards
What is impetigo contagiosa
 Bacterial skin infection
Reddish, macule, irrupt’s easily leaving, moist, erosion on skin
Secretions dryforming, honey, colored crust
What is pyoderma
Bacterial infection
Deep infection to dermis
Cleanse with soap and water
What is folliculitis
Pimple
Infection of the hair follicle
Bacterial
What is furuncle
Boil
Larger, swollen, red legion of single hair follicle
Bacterial
What is carbuncle
Multiple boils
More extensive swollen, red legion of multiple hair follicles
Bacterial
What is cellulitis?
From swollen red area of skin and subcutaneous tissue
Bacterial
What is staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome?
Rough textured skin with macular errhythmia
Upper dermis becomes wrinkled within two days
Bacterial
What is verruca
Warts
Elevated Rough gray brown firm, papules occur anywhere on skin
Viral
What is varruca plantaris
Plantar warts
Flat warts on plantar surface of feet
Viral
What is cold sore fever blister
Near mucocutaneous area lips nose buttock genital
What is herpes zoster?
 shingles
Neurological pain or itching
Viral
What is molloscum contagiosum
Flesh colored papules on stocks, extremities face trunk
Resolve spontaneously, and 18 months
Viral
What is tinea capitis?
Ringworm of the scalp
Scaly circumscribed lesion with alopecia on skull
You selenium sulfide shampoo
Fungal
What is tinea corpus?
Ringworm of the body
Round or oval, scaling patch
Spreads unilaterally
Fungal
What is tenia Cruris
Jock itch
Medial in proximal aspects of the thigh and scrotum
Fungal
What is tenia pedis?
Athletes foot
Between toes or on plantar surface
Fissuring lesions between toes patches with tiny vesicles
Fungal
What is candidiasis
Phone and moist areas of the skin surface with exudate peeling inflamed areas that bleed easily fungal
What is chiggers
Lights on one part of the body no reaction to hypersensitivity
 What is stage one of Lyme disease?
3 to 30 days following bite
Chills, fever, itching, headache, fainting, stiff neck, muscle weakness, bull’s-eye rash
What is stage two of Lyme disease?
3 to 10 weeks following bite
Systemic involvement begins neurological, cardiac musculoskeletal paralysis of weakness in face muscle pain, swelling in large joints
What is stage three of Lyme disease
2 to 12 months following bite
Deafness encephalopathy
Abnormal muscle movements and weakness
What is brown recluse, spider bite?
Mild sting pain 2 to 8 hours star shaped purple area in 3 to 4 days necrotic ulceration and 7 to 14 days
What is a black widow spider bite?
Mild sting leads to swollen, dizziness, weakness, abdominal pain, possible delirium, paralysis, seizures and death
What is a scorpion bite?
Intense pain
Burning numbness
Ascending paralysis
Death in children less than 4