Drug rash
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Background
ABCs of Drug Rashes
- Acute generalized exanthemous pustulosis (AGEP)
- Bullous disease, drug enduced
- Captopril (ACE-inhibitor) induced angioedema
- Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) syndrome
- SJS/TEN
Clinical Features
- sudden, usus morbilliform, often starts on face & trunk & spreads
Differential Diagnosis
Pediatric Rashes
Pediatric Rash
- Atopic dermatitis
- Bed bugs
- Contact dermatitis
- Drug rash
- Erythema infectiosum (Fifth disease)
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Henoch-schonlein purpura (HSP)
- Herpangina
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV)
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Meningitis
- Measles
- Molluscum contagiosum
- Roseola infantum
- Rubella (German measles)
- Scabies
- Scarlet fever
- Smallpox
- Varicella (Chickenpox)