Bradley, however, has made careful observations on their method of attack, and he assures us that the mite ordinarily remains for a long time feeding on the surface of the skin, where it produces the erythema above described.
In simple erythema the epidermis alone is affected; when it becomes chronic, fissures form and extend into the corium, or true skin.
Another form of erythema occurs in young cattle highly fed and closely stabled for a long winter.
In ordinary cases of erythemathe removal of the cause and the application of benzoated oxid of zinc ointment, carbolized cosmoline, or ichthyol ointment applied a few times, will restore the skin to a healthy condition.
Chronic erythema is found in the form of chapped teats of cows and chapped lips in sucking calves.
The erythemaappears in patches, and as it is most common near the end of the winter it is known as the "spring eruption" or "spring itch.
Crocker remarks that they are generally classified as erythema gangraenosum, and are always to be regarded with grave suspicion of being self-induced.
Dauboeuf, Garraway, Hemming, Skinner, and Cobner mention roseola and scarlatiniform erythema after minute doses of quinin.
What treatment would you advise inerythema intertrigo?
Exceptionally, in general cases, the eruption partakes of the nature of both urticaria and erythema multiforme, and itching may be quite a decided symptom.
The x-ray has been used in ringworm of this region with alleged success, pushing it to the production of a mild erythema and depilation.
This is aside, of course, from such superficial and quickly passing vasomotor disorders as erythema and dermatographia.
Curiously enough, a distinct erythema of the skin was observed over the point of pressure.
Ordinary or common diffuse Inflammation of the mouth; Erythema of the mouth; Oral catarrh.
The purpuric symptom may be accompanied by erythema or urticaria, and may precede, accompany, or alternate with other rheumatic manifestations.
Kaposi[2] regards it as related to erythema nodosum, with which affection, indeed, it possesses some features in common.
Care must be taken to distinguish this form of purpura from erythema multiforme and erythema nodosum, where blood is usually extravasated secondarily into the tissues.
Erythema intertrigo is caused by the friction of moist opposing surfaces, as between the nates of stout persons, who perspire freely, and infants.
Purpura rheumatica presents, as has been shown, many points of resemblance to erythema multiforme and erythema nodosum.
Erythema chronicum occurring in this locality is frequently a sequel to chronic eczema and chronic lichen: the skin cracks, is moist, thickens, and the epidermis exfoliates.
This is supposed to indicate a relationship with erythema nodosum and multiforme.
The diagnosis in the early stage is often difficult on account of the resemblance to the simple erythema of infancy.
In certain severe cases there is produced in addition to the eye symptoms an erythema of the face.
Bresse states that this erythema can be produced on the face, arm, or hand by exposure to the voltaic arc at a distance of thirty to forty centimetres.
The erythemais accompanied by a sensation of smarting.
Finally, erythema is especially liable to occur in spring, when the coat is being shed, and the hair follicles and general surface are exposed and irritable in connection with the dropping of the hairs.
Erythema may arise from a variety of causes, and is often named in accordance with its most prominent cause.
The proper treatment for simple erythema consists in applying to the affected parts a little lime-water, or sweet-oil, or glycerine, with the use of warm baths and mild cathartics.
The predisposing causes of erythema are constitutional debility, changes of climate and temperature, and irritating food or medicines.
There are many stages of this disease, from the instantaneous transient flush caused by emotional excitement, to the protracted inflammation and swelling of erythema nodosum.
In erythema papulosum, a fine representation of which is given in Colored Plate III, Fig.
Hebra was the first to point out the significance of the rash known as roseola variolosa or erythema variolosa.
Erythema in all its varieties is a purely hyperæmic affection and unaccompanied by fever.
In erythema multiforme there is an exudative process by reason of which various papules, nodosities, and at times even bullæ, appear upon the surface.
If the cutaneous circulation be active and the febrile movement be considerable these spots extend and coalesce, producing an efflorescence like erythema or like the hue of a boiled lobster, to which it has been likened.
It is not always accompanied by much fever, and cannot therefore be mistaken for that form of erythema which frequently appears in children with delicate skins during high fever from any source.
Erythema resembles the scarlatinous eruption, but its duration is commonly shorter.
Footnote 17: I believe that, under certain circumstances, the erythema papulatum of the new-born is often mistaken for measles.
In lieu of these, however, transient wheals may come and go over the surface, and even the erythema described above may assume an erratic phase and appear in one part only to disappear and recur at another.
Acute osteomyelitis is to be diagnosed from infections of the soft parts, such as erysipelas and cellulitis, and, in the case of the tibia, from erythema nodosum.
Acute dermatitis varying in degree from a slight erythema to deep ulceration or even necrosis of skin.
Patches of erythema sometimes appear scattered over the body.
Chilblain or erythema pernio is a vascular disturbance resulting from the alternate action of cold and heat on the distal parts of the body.
