Distribution of different types of skin diseases in a skin out-door department of a children hospital

ABSTRACT

A one year study, from March, 1987 to February, 1988, was conducted on 4124 skin only patients in the only paediatric hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh to show the distribution of different types of skin deseases in children. The types of skin infections were catagorised into five different groups as bacterial scabies, infected scabies, eczema and dermatitis, fundal and miscellaneous. The range of the ages of the studied patients in the presentation was from 0-15 years. In this study, 2176 [53%] patients were male whereas the rest 1940 [47%] were females. In all the cases, the number of male patients were found to be higher than females except in bacterial infection where 64.8% were between the age of 0 - 5 years while 9-10 years age group had 24.4% cases and 11-15 year age group, 10.8%