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Monday, April 04, 2005

Hailey-Hailey Disease Inframammary


Involvement of inframammary areas

Hailey -Hailey disease is often complicated by secondary infection.Many times I feel that the infection is the factor that causes the condition to flare.When it is controlled the condition responds again to topical steroids.

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posted by Dr Ian McColl at 4:21 AM

2 Comments:

Blogger Dr. Shahbaz A.Janjua said...

Did you ever cosider it closely resembling intertrigo involving the flexures, causing maceration with superaded bacterial and fungal/candidal infections and responding to antibacterial and/or antifungal topical and/or systemic therapy. How do you differentiate it from intertrigo?

8:22 PM

 
Blogger Dr Ian McColl said...

Dear Shahbaz,
This fissuring is very characteristic of Hailey-Hailey disease.Sweating certainly plays a part.The condition is always worse in warm weather.Antibacterial therapy seems to work better than antifungal ( yeast)therapy whereas the opposite is true in intertrigo.
Best wishes

3:33 AM

 

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