Korean J Dermatol.  1988 Jun;26(3):410-414.

A Case of Demodicidosis in Early Childhood

• Chung KJ
• Choi SK
• Kim DW
• Suh SB

Abstract

We herein report a case a demodicidosis, which is extremely rare in early childhood, in a 19 month old boy. He had been admitted to the department of plastic surgery for 20 days because of burn on both legs. During admission, he hadn't had his face washed at all. He was referred to our department due to progressively appearing, multiple, pinhead sized, dry scaling, erythematous papules on the face of 13 days duration. KOH mounts from the scaly papules revealed numerous hair follicule mites. We treated him with topical application of 25% benzoy1 peroxide gel to see complete clearing of the lesions in 32 days. We think that prolonged ret.ention of sebum in the unwashed skin, such as in our case, may predispose to the poliferation of the hair follicule mites.

MeSH Terms

Burns
Hair
Humans
Infant
Leg
Male
Mites
Sebum
Skin
Surgery, Plastic