Nutritional Deficiency - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

nutritional deficiency

Body Site

arm hand finger leg

Age

4 months

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

Comments

This 4 month old infant with tyrosinemia was placed on a special low protein diet. He became deficient in several essential amino acids and developed an acrodermatitis enteropathical-like rash. With careful essential amino acid supplementation the eruption disappeared in 3 days.

Description

acral red scaly erosive eruption

Image Added

2/8/2001 21:24:26

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