What's the difference between dermatitis and intertrigo?
Dermatitis
Definition:
(n.) Inflammation of the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 1887, winter green is claimed to have caused dermatitis and to have been responsible for "idiosyncrasy".
(2) Allergic photocontact dermatitis developed in a patient to a commercial sunscreen preparation containing para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA) in an alcohol base.
(3) We retrospectively studied the incidence and course of epoxy resin contact dermatitis in 2265 patients in whom contact dermatitis was confirmed by patch testing.
(4) Recurrence of the dermatitis one day after amalgam dental fillings had been made and again one year later, this time without new fillings, raised the possibility that it was due to the old amalgam fillings.
(5) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(6) The purpose of this study was to develop a new model for the induction of chronic irritant contact dermatitis, which would reflect well the conditions of daily practice.
(7) There is no previous report of a subcutaneous leiomyosarcoma developing in radiation dermatitis.
(8) Three hundred sixty five children and hundred thirty nine adults with atopic dermatitis were divided into three groups.
(9) A case of bullous disease in a child with linear IgA immune deposits at the basement membrane zone and with some clinical, histological, and electron microscopic characteristics both of dermatitis herpetiformis and bullous pemphigoid, is described.
(10) This suggests that common food additives are seldom if ever of significance as precipitating factors in chronic urticaria or atopic dermatitis.
(11) Skin diseases of the udder include viral infections, mange, sunburn, wounds, and staphylococcal dermatitis.
(12) Pompholyx (Dyshidrosis) is a disease of unknown etiology presenting as symmetrical, vesicular hand and foot dermatitis.
(13) Two patients who had had idiopathic steatorrhoea for several years developed typical eruptions of dermatitis herpetiformis.
(14) Involved and uninvolved psoriatic epidermal cells showed a fourfold decrease in the number of 12-HETE binding sites as compared with normal healthy individuals and patients with atopic dermatitis, while receptor affinity remained unchanged.
(15) The work of others has confirmed that increased amounts of total and antigen-specific IgG4 occur in atopic dermatitis, and it is concluded that IgG4 is a blocking antibody for anaphylactic sensitization responses.
(16) This retrospective study of forty-six patients with stasis dermatitis found a 60.9 percent incidence of at least one significantly positive patch test reaction.
(17) Skin biopsies for immunofluorescent studies were taken from patients with contact dermatitis (positive patch tests), atopic dermatitis and allergic vasculitis for comparison with normal-appearing skin from the same patients, and from healthy controls.
(18) In a cross-sectional study of 144 slaughterhouse workers, a cumulative prevalence of current and anamnestic cases of protein contact dermatitis of 22% was found, with the highest prevalence in workers eviscerating and cleansing gut.
(19) Some foot-pad dermatitis was still observed in poults fed levels of methionine more than adequate to meet the requirements for optimum growth and feed efficiency.
(20) Thus, a cosmetic-induced berlock dermatitis was suspected.
Intertrigo
Definition:
(n.) A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children.
Example Sentences:
(1) Despite the high rates of dermatoses found in a study of 686 female workers in a canning factory in March 1990, use of protective gloves was extremely low, even though there was evidence that they prevented acute paronychia and intertrigo.
(2) Intertrigo is an inflammatory dermatosis involving the body folds.
(3) The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical, epidemiological and evolutive characteristics of interdigital and plantar intertrigo of the feet among people working in a coking plant, a potash mine and a motorcar factory.
(4) However, the study demonstrated the safety and efficacy of both these preparations in the treatment of intertrigo.
(5) We report here two cases of an acute psoriatic eruption associated in one patient with Group C streptococcal cellulitis and in another with Group G streptococcal intertrigo.
(6) Longitudinal white bands on the fingernails were observed in a 58-year-old male patient with perianal intertrigo.
(7) These epitheliomas, 22 cases in 19 patients, occur chiefly in women (12 cases) and in agricultural workers, secondary to lesions of intertrigo and of "soft corns" present for 2 to 20 years.
(8) Antibiotics were used briefly in a few cases where there was intertrigo with skin maceration at acutely flexed PIP joints.
(9) Both hernias were very large and associated with extensive intertrigo.
(10) Intertrigo categorizes disease that does not fit into the above categories.
(11) A logistic regression analysis (BMDPLR program) of anamnestic and clinical data (table IV) led to a "mathematical model of the mycotic foot", characterized by 6 main parameters of statistically significant occurrence: a history of interdigital-plantar intertrigo, recurrent in 90 p. 100 of subjects in group M (significant association at 0.1 p. 100); a functional symptom, pruritus, present in 71 p. 100 of subjects with mycosis; the stronger, more disturbing the pruritus, the greater the probability of it being of fungal origin (significant association at 0.1 p. 100); 4 physical signs: lack of maceration (0.1 p. 100), lesions limited to the interdigital spaces and respecting the soles (0.1 p. 100), presence of interdigital fissures (0.5 p. 100) and vesiculation (2.5 p. 100).
(12) A cross-sectional prevalence study among 686 female workers in a canning factory in the western Cape showed high rates of dermatoses--in particular, chronic paronychia, intertrigo and dermatitis of the hands.
(13) They exhibited an eruption confined to the intertriginous areas, which mimicked intertrigo.
(14) Drug-related fever occurred in one patient, and another experienced a maculopapular rash and monilial intertrigo.
(15) No association could be shown between dermatitis, intertrigo or chronic paronychia and patch-test positivity.
(16) The following variants of candida infections have been treated: onychomycosis, intertrigo and mucocutaneous candidosis due to prolonged immunosuppressive therapy.
(17) Although drug eruption can mimic a variety of idiopathic skin diseases, intertrigo is easily distinguished from drug eruption and has not been mentioned in the differential diagnosis of this reaction.
(18) It is suggested that drug reactions should be considered in the differential diagnosis of intertrigo, in particular of atypical and therapy-resistant cases.
(19) In chronic riboflavin deficiency the cutaneous lesions resemble monilial intertrigo and the mucous membrane lesions include a characteristic glossitis.
(20) Irritant antiseptics may aggravate intertrigo and provoke an allergic contact dermatitis.