Kinnor Das

The most frequent calamity in the world, flooding has killed around 53,000 people in just the previous ten years. Prior to 2011, flooding was the most frequent type of disaster on the planet, accounting for about half of all natural disaster victims and nearly US $185 trillion in economic losses. Flood dermatoses can be divided into four categories: (i) Inflammatory skin diseases (such as irritant contact dermatitis); (ii) Fungal and bacterial infections; (iii) Traumatic skin diseases; and (iv) Other miscellaneous skin diseases (such as an allergic reaction to an insect bite and psycho-emotionally aggravating primary skin diseases). Here we review and summarise a number of articles on flood related skin diseases in an effort to improve knowledge and recognition of these conditions for both dermatologists and general practitioners in order to provide the best and most appropriate management of these particular skin diseases in emergency situations.   Keywords: Floods, Tinea

Introduction: According to WHO a neonate, is a child under 28 days of age. The neonatal skin changes show a wide geographic and ethnic variation. It is important to know the pattern of dermatoses prevalent among Indian children during the neonatal period. Aims a nd Objectives: The current study was conducted to study the prevalence of neonatal dermatoses in southern Assam and to study relationship of neonatal dermatoses with maturity and birth weight of neonates. Materials and Methods: 150 neonates who developed cutaneous lesions over a period of one year were examined. Proportion of each dermatoses and prevalence ratio were calculated using relevant formulae.  Results: Out of the 150 neonates, 66 % neonates had transient physiological changes, 11.33% had congenital disorders and genodermatoses, 4.67% had iatrogenic complications, 30% had acquired skin diseases, 8% had neonatal infections and 2% had other miscellaneous diseases. The five most common dermatoses overall were diaper dermatitis (17.33%), miliaria (14%), erythema toxicum neonatorum (13.33%), infantile seborrheic dermatitis (12.67%), sebaceous gland hyperplasia (6%) and Mongolian spot (6%). Low birth weight babies had predilection for vernix caseosa, sucking blisters, candidiasis, miniature puberty, caput succedaneum, cephalohematoma, physiological jaundice, infantile acropustulosis, salmon patch, Epstein’s pearls/ Bohn’s nodules, miliaria, sebaceous gland hyperplasia, neonatal acne, Mongolian spot, bullous impetigo, erythroderma Preterm neonates had predilection for vernix caseosa, sucking blisters, miniature puberty, candidiasis, Mongolian spot, caput succedaneum, cephalohematoma, erythroderma, miliaria, Epstein’s pearls/ Bohn’s nodules and a positive association was seen between post-term neonates and physiological desquamation, diaper dermatitis. Neonatal psoriasis and neonatal dermatophyte infection were the unusual findings which we found in our study. Keywords: Erythema Toxicum Neonatorum, Neonatal Lupus Erythmatosus, Dermatoses