Challenge: What is your diagnosis?Image is in the public domain.
Friday, August 22, 2008
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A young child presents with non-specific symptoms of nausea, vomiting, headache, excitability, delirium, and combativeness. It slowly progresses to coma. The only other remarkable finding was a recent chickenpox infection that the parents treated with this:
Challenge: What is your diagnosis?
Image is in the public domain.
Challenge: What is your diagnosis?Image is in the public domain.
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aspirin?
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The image shown is a molecular structure of aspirin. Aspirin should not be given to children for influenza or chickenpox because of the association with Reye Syndrome, which is described here.
Sources: UpToDate; Wikipedia.
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