Challenge: What's he missing?
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Monday, September 14, 2015
Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Challenge: What's he missing?
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This is a poor child in a developing country. He gets recurrent infections because of a depressed immune system. He has impaired taste and smell as well as diarrhea. He has a bullous pustular rash. If untreated, he may develop night blindness, alopecia, and decreased spermatogenesis. The treatment, though, is fairly easy.
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3 comments:
Zinc deficiency
yes! i can't say i have ever diagnosed this, and i don't think i ever will.
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Everything but the Kitchen Sink
This patient has zinc deficiency.
Source: UpToDate.
Acrodermatitis enteropathica! So common in my part of the world!
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