What are the lesions diagnostic of? The patient is 6 months old and was breast fed until 2months ago. What childhood disease did the infant experience? Why did the lesions erupt now? Why did this baby not have symptoms earlier? Is this at all dangerous?
2006-11-27 08:29:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
Blister like lesions may be caused by localized contact dermatitis, or perhaps shingles (herpes zoster). There have been reported cases of shingles in infancy as the child was exposed to the varicella virus (chicken pox) in very early infancy or perhaps even in utero. The reactivated virus grows along one dermatome or nerve distribution and produces a characteristic vesicular or blister like rash on a reddened base, which follows a specific nerve dermatome and is always on one side of the body, almost never crossing midline.
2006-11-27 08:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Amuse Bouche 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the affected area is on one area of the body, it sounds plenty like shingles, the Herpes-Zoster virus. Our neural equipment is prepared in "rows" emanating from the spinal twine outward in the direction of the torso. those are categorized into sections referred to as "dermaphores" that wrap around the body. The virus continues to be dormant in a unmarried area of the dermaphores, and it truly is the reason it (shingles) impacts in straight forward words one area of the body.
2016-10-07 21:12:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋