Monday, September 14, 2015

Everything but the Kitchen Sink


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.

Challenge: What's he missing?

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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2015 at 8:46 PM

    Zinc deficiency

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  2. CraigSeptember 17, 2015 at 2:33 PM

    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.

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  3. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2015 at 4:45 AM

    Acrodermatitis enteropathica! So common in my part of the world!

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