| ID | 207 |
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| Name | SEBORRHOEIC DERMATITIS |
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| Management | Management: A. General measures - 1. Explanation; reassurance. 2. Avoid oil. 3. Give antihistamine etc. 4. Anti-dandruff shampoo e.g selenium sulphide, ketoconazole etc. B. Specific measures - 1. Local steroid (lotion, cream); Or, Antifungal & steroid combinations. N.B. For detail see topical steroid preparaions (therapeutic section). 2. Appropriate antibiotic for secondary infection. |
| Introduction | It is an acute or chronic pruritic dermatitis with erythema, dry, moist or greasy scaling and yellow crusted patches which appear on oily areas of the skin specially on the scalp, eye brows, creases of the nose and ear. It also occurs in axille, inframammary, perineal region, umbilicus & groin. Onset is usually gradual. Seborrhoeic dermatitis causes hair loss and exfoliation of an excessive amount of dandruff may occur. Infants within first month of life may develop seborrhoeic dermatitis with thick, yellow, crusted scalp lesion due to maternal androgen. Its cause remains unknown but perpetuating factor is appearence of a yest like fungus ptyrosporum orbiculare |
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