Question 88 · LEK · Parasitic diseases
A 3-year-old child suffers from significant pruritus aggravating at night. There are irregular papules on the skinfolds between digits. There are excoriations visible on the foot skin and in the intergluteal area. The probable diagnosis is:
- A. scabies.
- B. pediculosis.
- C. skin allergy.
- D. food allergy to protein.
- E. Boston exanthem disease.
Hint
Nocturnal itch plus lesions in the finger webs points to an organism that burrows into the stratum corneum.
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