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Narcotics (for pain control) and antivenin have been used to treat black widow spider bites and have been helpful. The antivenin is derived from horse serum, and there is a…

Most ticks bite and feed for up to 24 hours before falling off after receiving their blood meal. They can leave a tick bite granuloma, which is a small red…

Treatment: Therapy is specific to each syndrome. The molecular understanding of the pathogenesis has led to specific therapies. Because of their rarity, no randomized studies have been performed on the…

TRAPS is inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern and also can occur sporadically. Patients develop attacks early in childhood, which consist of fever, abdominal pain, conjunctivitis, arthralgias, and migratory myalgias….

Treatment is usually more successful in children than in adults. Occasionally in children and more commonly in adults, systemic therapies are used to keep the dermatitis under control. Oral antihistamines…

Most childhood atopic dermatitis resolves spontaneously over time. It is estimated that 10% of cases will resolve by the age of 1 year, 50% by 5 years, 70% by 7…

Patients who do not respond to these measures should undergo patch testing to determine whether another antigen is causing or provoking the dermatitis. Without the use of patch testing, the…

The diagnosis in all these cases can be made based on patch testing. Chambers loaded with specific concentrations and amounts of known allergens are applied to the back of the…

Sweet’s syndrome that develops as a paraneoplastic process secondary to underlying leukemia should be treated with oral or intravenous steroids once an infectious process has been ruled out. This can…

Severe disease is rarely responsive to medical therapy. Surgical options remain the best therapeutic choice. The goal is to remove the abnormal skin and close the wound under as little…