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Volume 2 Issue 3 (July-September, 2014)

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PATTERN AND PREVALENCE OF DERMATOLOGIC DISEASES IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
Tej Pal

Introduction: Disorders of the skin and its appendages, including the hair and nails, are frequently encountered in children. Despite of their common occurrence, skin diseases receive less attention as compared with diseases, Little information is available about the prevalence of skin conditions among children in the general population of northern India. The patterns of skin diseases have been shown to vary according to environmental and socioeconomic factors. Aim:  To determine and evaluate the  incidence of various skin  disorders in pediatric patients both in rural or urban population including different socioeconomic status as well. Material and method: It is across-sectional study conducted with a sample size of 350 children upto 5 years of age, reporting with complaints of skin problems to the dermatology outpatient. The diagnoses were categorized into various groups like various infections like bacterial, viral and fungal, eczematous disorders, drug reactions, urticaria, genodermatosis, papulosquamous diseases, pigmentary diseases and tumors. Results: Out of total skin lesions studied, population of children having dermatosis due to bacterial infections were 74 (21.1%), due  to viral infections was 112 (32%) and due to fungal infections was 28 (8%). other categories like eczematous dermatitis, affected 82 (23.42%) of the study population, pigmentary disorders 16 (4.5%), genodermatosis 4(1.1%), drug reactions 3(0.8%), bite reactions 2 (0.5%), tumors 2 (0.5%) and others were 27 (7.7%) of the population respectively. Conclusion: Thus in conclusion we can say that skin lesions still remain an important concern in children as Low socioeconomic status, malnutrition, overcrowding, and poor standards of hygiene are important factors accounting for the distribution of skin diseases in developing countries such as India. More such studies should be conducted   with a larger sample size to know the true spectrum of the diseases in the particular community.
Key words: Cutaneous disorders, dermatologic diseases, pigmented lesions.

 
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