Chronic Lip Licking is often seen in children and is also referred to as Exfoliative Cheilitis, or Cheilitis Exfoliativa. The patients develop an exfoliative dermatitis with sharp margins that rims the upper and lower lips…often looking like a clown face as shown in the picture above and below. The sharp demarcations of the tongue margins… Read more »
Dermatologists for years have used Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) to treat many chronic, often inflammatory, conditions, such as erosive lichen planus (LP), discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis, frontal fibrosing alopecia, and morphea. Chloroquine is a sister drug used to treat malaria, they are very similar medications. Chloroquine was synthesized in Germany by Bayer… Read more »
Impetigo Contagiosa is a very common skin infection, most frequently in children, particularly boys. The causative bacteria are usually staphylococcal and or streptococcal organisms although mixed infections may also occur. The most common form is characterized by discrete, thin-walled vesicles that rapidly become pustular and then rupture producing a thin, straw-colored, seropurulent discharge that exudes… Read more »