Eczema herpeticum

Question 1

Patients with AD display an increased susceptibility to what?

Answer 1

common warts and exaggerated clinical presentations to other viral infections such as molluscum contagiosum

Question 2

What is the most serious virally medicated complication in AD?

Answer 2

Eczema herpeticum

Question 3

What is the incubation period of eczema herpeticum in AD?

Answer 3

5 to 12 days

Question 4

Describe the lesions in eczema herpeticum

Answer 4

multiple, pruritic, vesiculopustular lesions erupt in a disseminated pattern; vesicular lesions are umbilicated, tend to cluster and often become hemorrhagic and crusted

Question 5

Eczema herpeticum

Answer 5

punched-out and extremely painful erosions result

Question 6

Eczema herpeticum

Answer 6

these lesions may coalesce to large, denuded and bleeding areas that can extend over the entire body and be fatal in some cases

Question 7

Why do some patients develop eczema herpeticum?

Answer 7

because of defects in interferon pathways

Question 8

what happens when patients with AD are given small pox vaccination?

Answer 8

Eczema vaccinatum - very similar to eczema herpeticum
in patients with AD, vaccination is contraindicated unless there is a clear risk of smallpox
In addition, decisions regarding vaccination of family members should take into consideration the potential of eczema vaccinatum in household contacts

Question 9

What is Eczema coxsackium?

Answer 9

Exaggerated responses to coxsackie virus
Children present with hand and foot vesicles or papules that resemble typical hand, foot and mouth disease
Lesions tened to be more severe and hemorrhaghic and involve additional areas involved with eczema
Despite the sometimes dramatic presentation, the skin rash resolves with no negative sequelae