Parvovirus B19, also known as Fifth Disease or erythema infectiosum, is prevalent in the community, particularly among ...

Hydrochloric acid was allegedly rubbed on a pregnant woman's abdomen instead of medical jelly during the delivery procedure ...

Are stomach rashes common in pregnancy? Rashes and itchiness during pregnancy has many causes. Most are completely benign and only need symptom-relief. Occasionally an itch and rash can be ...

During pregnancy, women will commonly experience increased activity of a type of sweat gland, called an eccrine gland, that opens directly onto the skin. This can cause hyperhidrosis (excessive ...

COMMON SKIN CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY: 1. Hyperpigmentation and Melasma: Hyperpigmentation is the most prevalent skin problem of pregnancy, and it manifests typically as melasma or the 'mask of ...

The condition was first described by Colcott-Fox in 1895 with the publication of a case study describing an annular eruption that arose on an 11-year-old girl’s finger. 1 Seven years later ...

The American Academy of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) describes PUPPP as a rare hives-like rash with the cause still unknown. But it has been linked to the stretching of the skin. PUPPP ...

Acute abdomen refers to a sudden onset of severe abdominal pain that may require urgent surgical intervention, while biliary system diseases encompass disorders affecting the gallbladder, bile ducts, ...

Pregnancy is a beautiful journey of transformation. While you embrace the changes your body undergoes to nurture new life, stretch marks can be a concern for many expecting mothers.

An itchy stomach can be marked by an irresistible urge to scratch the area, along with redness, bumps, or a rash. The possible causes of an itchy stomach usually include contact dermatitis, autoimmune ...

Over the next 2 days, as her fever and abdominal pain continued, the palpable rash rapidly spread to her right arm and wrist, both legs, ankles and feet, with numerous scattered lesions about the ...

The spectrum of swelling varies in extremes. For instance, PUPPP, pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy, is a bumpy rash that extends across stretch marks on the abdomen.