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Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
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Research Article

A Study On Neonatal Dermatosis In A Tertiary Care Hospital Of Western Uttar Pradesh, India

Gagan Agarwal1*, Vijay Kumar1, Sartaj Ahmad2, Kapil Goel3, Parul Goel4, Ashish Prakash5, Ajay Punj1 and Meenal Garg6

1Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Department of Medical Sociology, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

3Department of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

4Department of Biochemistry, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

5Professor of Pediatrics, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

6Senior Resident OBG, AIIMS, New Delhi, India

*Corresponding Author:
Gagan Agarwal
Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Subharti Medical College
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
E-mail: drgagan15@gmail.com

Received date: July 31, 2012; Accepted date: September 22, 2012; Published date: September 24, 2012

Citation: Agarwal G, Kumar V, Ahmad S, Goel K, Goel P, et al. (2012) A Study on Neonatal Dermatosis in a Tertiary Care Hospital of Western Uttar Pradesh India. J Community Med Health Educ 2:169. doi: 10.4172/2161-0711.1000169

Copyright: © 2012 Agarwal G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

The aim of this study is to assess the frequency of both physiological and pathological cutaneous lesions in first seven days of life in a tertiary care hospital of western uttar pradesh. Overall 500 neonates either inborn or attending paediatric opd/ clinic and delivered in the hospital were included in the study. The study took 6 months, consent from parents of those neonates were taken. Clinical examination, dermatological examinations were carried out to check their eligibility to enter this study and to diagnose the skin lesions. Consultations to dermatologists were done in the beginning of the study, especially, in the doubtful cutaneous lesions. Skin lesions were present in 476 (95.2%) neonates. Of these 6O neonates (12%) have pathological lesions, 430(86%) had only physiological lesion, while 14 neonates (2.8%) had both physiological and pathological lesions. Of physiological lesions epstein pearls were most common (78%) second most common lesion was mongolion spots (65%), desquamation was seen in 52% cases, & milia (42%). Pathological lesions pustulosis was most common seen in 28% cases, second most common lesion was oral thrush (26%).

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